No not at all.
What I am saying is realistically we would find it hard to win the GF from outside the top 3 which I personally do not think we will make and reach the CC Final.
It is certainly not beyond us but would be a very hard ask.
Me personally? I would rather win the GF again even if it means missing out on the CC.

Leeds only need to finish in the top 4 to stand a good chance of retaining the title.

That is still more than acheivable.

Initially i thought it'd be best if hull knocked us out, then we could get the free weekends and put all our focus into the title....but then we continued to drop points in the league. Now I think we need to stay in contention for both as long as possible to give ourselves the best chance of silverware. You never know we could hit serious form at the crucial time and scoop both trophies up in a smash and grab.

Now that I like.
You would have to change your user name though Back to Back to Back

And yet they were still good enough to put 30 points on Leeds despite having makeshift half-backs.

If Horne and Long are both back for Saturday Leeds are going to have to learn to defend significantly better than they have for the last three games.

But only for 20 minutes of the game. At least that is what I was told.

Absolutely agree.
I thought at the start of the game we were making a much greater effort to get 3 men into the tackle but as fatigue & complacency set in we dropped off from that hence the couple of penalties that Sinfield conceded for holding on too long.

I'd say he meant overall in the last 3 games which is fair but not exactly EVERY minute of every game and stand by my thoughts posted yesterday.

Which reminds me, where are Mr Cooke and Mr Brough these days ? I didn't see them playing at Headingley yesterday ... Are they part of Hull's perennial injury problem ?

In addtional, we don't have a crazy Papuan on the wing to gift you four in a tight game by doing something terminally stuipd on the wrong side of the line this time ....

Add home advantage it's going to be a very tough to game to win.

It will be tough and a different hull team, but feel confident should win it

Don't want to take away tvoc's thunder but comparing the stats from yesterday to today, according to Opta Leeds made only 1 missed tackle yesterday and Hull only 2.



Can't wait to see who the one is credited to. I know Burrow missed Luaki 3 minutes into the second half, I noticed it because he did not appear to miss him the other times and I thought he did well with it.

Pretty sure though that when tvoc's stats come out on the individual players that the missed will add to more than one, surely.

Senior in the yep: [i"It's going to be a different kettle of fish at the KC Stadium," he said. "More than likely they'll have a few players back. We've reviewed the game and we need to improve as well."[/i

That stat has never made any sense which is why when I record the opposition totals the missed tackle stat goes in as a '?'

The only way to get to the true figure from the website is to have a total of each team's missed tackles by individual player, before and after each update.

For example although the Leeds total for missed tackles now stands at 16 the combined total from the Leeds players prior to yesterday's game was 215.

Leeds Rhinos: Webb, Smith, Delaney, Senior, Hall, McGuire, Burrow, Leuluai, Buderus, Bailey, Jones-Buchanan, Lauitiiti, Sinfield, Kirke, Burgess, Diskin, Ablett, Ambler, Bush.

Hull FC: T Briscoe, Dowes, Cusack, Fitzgibbon, Hall, Horne, Houghton, Lauaki, Longy, Manu, Moa, O’Meley, Radford, Tansey, Tickle, Turner, Washbrook, Whiting, Yeaman.

Referee: Steve Ganson
Video Referee: Richard Silverwood

Venue: KC Stadium, Hull.
Date: Saturday 17th April 2010

Looks like that thread has been prematurely ended. So I’ll answer here.

Hull FC fans aren’t the scum of rugby league and I never hinted at that. Heck I even started off by stating it probably wasn’t Hull FC fans that caused the trouble. Just out and out hooligans.

It was a touchy subject to bring up but why not?

Its not something I included in my column talking about challenge cup past and present either.

Hopefully that’s clear!

I dont think any rugby fanns generally cause any trouble, Trouble usuallly arrises from other eliments attending games. eg at crusaders last year, a eliment of the CARDIFF FOOTBALL FIRM turned up for a ruck with leeds utd fans.

If there is any Trouble at Rugby 9 times out of 10 it isn't the Rugby Supporters that have actually caused the issue...Now i'm not saying all Football Fans are Hooligans because I am one myself, but instances like Crusaders only occured because we was in Town and of course because 'We are Leeds' we are then put under the umbrella of all Leeds Clubs, Football or Rugby!

To say this is a pretty exciting Cup tie between two evenly matched teams.
There`s not much enthusiasm on these boards lately.
Does that say something about the CC itself or are we already preparing our excuses ready for Saturday night?

www.skysports.com/story/0,19528, ... 95,00.html No added pressure says Sinfield... Sure we played London Broncos in the 1999 final though

www.skysports.com/story/0,19528, ... 95,00.html No added pressure says Sinfield... Sure we played London Broncos in the 1999 final though

Sheffield have never lost a cup final!

Really looking forward to this game, should prove to be a cracker.
By the sounds of things Horne, Tickle and Fitzgibbon are all back which should help stiffen our defence up. Horne should add some more attacking options for us too. Long is doubtful though by all accounts.
I fully expect you to have tightened up your right side defence this week so I doubt Briscoe will be scoring 4 tries again. It'll be interesting to see how both teams go about this game having had last week to suss each other out.
See you on Saturday!

bewildered wrote:Its a bit pedantic to bring this up really. [uHad it been in the last 12 months then maybe [/ubut it was years ago. [uIts things like this been brought up that could cause people to get p1ss3d off and start a ruck over it. [/u

Does this also apply to folk from Hull (& others) continuing to resurrect the Bailey/Walker case?

I get shot down whenever I mention something bad that happened around another team.

Ali injured, so out, but Peacock in

Like I said, Hull are garbage with absolutely no game plan whatsoever - Leeds on the other hand are head and shoulders above the rest of the sides in SL.

PS

Dont let Wigan fool you either, they are slightly better than last year, at a pinch.