As a Leigh fan I can't see anyone going up either, however we are playing to a completely different structure to last season - playing through a good set of forwards and nowhere near as as expansive, a lot more game management.

Don't see Leeds being in the mix, but reckon we will give one of the SL teams a game (don't know why but hope we get hkr at home)

ATEOTD, don't think we have the overall pace/ruck speed to make it to the promised land - but yo never know in a one off game if we get there

I think it will be Salford in the MPG and it will be close. However, the rest of the games could be heavy wins for SL sides.

Forget what ColD says..We are prepared and the results reflect that.The question is are you prepared and is everyone back to full fitness?I wouldn't want to see us playing against the excuses you have had all season.

If it comes down to it the ref will be Hicks and you will totally miss the ball over the line with seconds to go only for Hicks to give the try cos you got eye contact with the ball

And i have offered up no excuses personally. we have been abysmal and my feelings have been under no circumstances should we be middle 8s not to mention possibly bottom of the pile. Facts are though we haven't had the players we have now available all year so i am more than a little confident moving forward that we should be blowing the championship sides away and not be involved in the MPG but we will see. Good to see you are confident, maybe this is the year you reach the holy grail

This squad should be way too good for anything they will come across in the middle 8's - I expect them to save McDermott's blushes and win every game.

How about them saving their own blushes?

If they don't perform in the middle 8s virtually all of them they will still have a job on the same T&Cs - McDermott will not

There is no way we will fail to get in top 3 of the middle 8's. 3 wins out of last 4 and we thru the defeat to widnes away. Be hard against the pies but we will batter kr. Then the middle 8's we will beat the 4 championships side with ease. That is 8 points in the bag and pick 2 up from the 3 super league points which we will. Bring on 2017 then I say. So cmon people it's time to get behind the boys and hopefully we get a decent hb for next season and things will start to look sweet again.

Just got to hope now that we have nearly everyone back that they stay fit especially Segeyaro. No coincidence that the only game we did lose out of our last 4 was the one with no recognised hooker. Had Segryaro gotten here in time or we still had Falloon we probably would have won against Widnes (and still had a slight chance of overtaking Wakefield)

Leeds are too good to be in the middle 8s... But look where they are... oh yeah in the middle 8s. Dont get too cocky boys. Its not a foregone conclusion that the championship sides are going to roll over just cos your Leeds. You could be in for a couple of shocks at least.

We could have played Falloon against Widnes, he was simply overlooked. It is clear, even to a blind man, that our improved performances are when a recognised hooker is playing. Playing Segeyaro (or Falloon before his de-registration) allows the halves to play their recognised game. When we have played without a hooker everyone is being asked to play a different role. Surely we have to get Segeyaro to sign up for next season or else we will be back to square one.

Loving the Leigh fans. Couldn't see off a shambolic Hull KR and a patched together Wakefield side last year, but confident of knocking over a Leeds side coming back into some form.

Nope he'd been deregistered before the game to allow the Segeyaro deal to be done.

As ever the Greeks had a word for it "hubris", it applies equally to Leigh fans as it does to Rhinos ones.
Playing us will be every other club in the middle 8s cup final.
Not such a foregone conclusion as many on here would have us believe.
I for one am worried. I hope that the club & players are not as complacent.

It's not complacency, it's realism.

This Leigh side isn't - IMO - as good as the 2015 one. The SL sides heading into the Super 8s are - again, IMO - of a higher quality and in better form than the 2015 versions were.

That indicates to me that the chances of an upset are lower than they were in 2015.

I foresee a combination of cup final mentality in our opposition and our lack of leadership & non existant halfbacks being a massive problem in the middle 8's.

If the championship teams treat leeds as any sort of cup final it will be to the detriment of all the other games which could damage their promotion chances. Theres 7 games and good results will be needed in large amount. So I guess effectively 7 cup finals.

All leeds can do is go into them in good form with a healthy squad, and treat every game as a high stakes super league contest. If leeds can beat hull away from home who have been at the top then they can beat Leigh. No matter how many leigh fans are coming over all billy big bollox.

All season people on here have been babbing themselves about the middle 8's. So don't presume to tell us about anything. Waddle off.

Remember the challenge cup two seasons ago when you had the super dooper players that you lost this year. Hence your reason for being at the bottom of the league. And you were going to give all kinds of lessons to Leigh, only for you to steal it with a late try and DROPGOAL and some very dubious ref decisions. Dont get too far ahead of yourselves. It could bite you on the bum. If you beat us fairly then there won't be any complaints from me. But if you get the same help as in the cup by a ref then that will smell a bit corrupt. Anyway good luck with it all, you may just need it

So in other words, if we beat you it is because of the ref, if we lose it is because you are better?

There was no favours from refs two years ago, and in that match we played equally e has we have done all this year.

^This^

Hence why you think you are World Beaters. Which you aren't.

Remember last years Challenge Cup when you beat Salford and Wakefield.....how did it go against those teams in the Middle 8's?

You'd have thought after last year that Leigh fans wouldn't be so eager to pipe up on opposition boards telling them to watch out for Leigh.

And if we lose to leigh and win all our other games we'll avoid the million pound game. Theres 6 other teams and games beside leigh, and leeds need to watch out for them all. So quit babbling on about leigh, take your over inflated sense of self importance and toddle off.

Logic would dictate that you should annihilate us (Leigh) Our backs aren't as quick as last season, but our pack is 100% better than last time around and players have been employed much better, with sensible rotation. That should mean that we go into the 8's fully fit, with the exception of Willie Tonga, who has only managed two forty minute spells in the entire season.

Yes, everything points to a Leeds win, but you will have a heck of a job on your hands, subduing our pack.