That's potential sig material come Saturday night.

TBF there's a few on here that could be used, i like some of TVOC's myself

If we lose we'll be 6 points behind St Helens (if they win) and 4 behind Huddersfield. I think Saturday could be a turning point.

Thank god it's a top 8 playoff now eh

I must say - and congratulate you all - how pleasant it is to read complimentary posts about us. Some of the teams we've played think we're the devil incarnate!

It [ishould[/i be a close game, but, as Durham Giant pointed out earlier, in big games, in front of big crowds, with a point to prove, and with Sky present, we never turn up.

I suggest that the form book will be nothing to go by. Your guys will really be up for this - smarting like a don't know what playing second fiddle to Huddersfield!

Anyway, here's to a good game - and hoping that we can at least do ourselves justice on the telly.

That's what most of us thought monday....

He posted the same stats on the Huddersfield Board.

I pointed out to him there on those missed tackles, that if you go to the players stats and put in Ashley Gibson. It shows 9 missed tackles for him alone. So the 8 is just the usual pants.

i have scanned a view of the threds since monday. im not suprised one bit by some of the total knackers that has been posted throughtout SS.

some of you are the type of fans we can all do without.

saints last year where worse than we are now for a good part of the season and then were awesome until the GF!! now pundits are saying can anyone stop saints after we lose 4 in 5.

FFS take a deep breath and have some [size=150faith!![/size in what the club are trying to do.

if it doesnt work out then so be it. we can change it next year or the year after.

i first watched leeds around 85/86, ive had a season ticket on and off since 88. i watched leeds through my childhood win nowt apart from a yorkshire cup final!! I love leeds, i love the club. I will still love the club when like the nrl you can win the comp one year and finish bottom next.

if we have a few $hite seasons big deal. i get some much more out of been a fan than watching leeds win every week. to be honest the main thing is enjoying the highs and lows with my friends and family who i go to the games with week in week out and cheering on a bunch of lads who play the toughest game of all.

is this a blip in form or have the wheels fallen off!! i dont know!! i cant read the future!!

yes im gutted about the last few weeks but i will always be a leeds fan!!

role on saturday i cant wait!! personally i think hudds look a well coached solid team. game on!!

I think you will probably win it quiet convincingly, I wouldn't be shocked if your defeat last last monday acted in the same way as our defeat to Cas last season and was the kick start your season needs.

I don't particularly like the sound of that. People's signatures usually take the p[iis[/is out of the author's afterall.

i dont know if i would go that far!! will have to see!! leeds have only just got something like the full playing roster to choose from, webb and buderus are not really match fit and we are playing a new system! so we have to give that time.

i also feel we won our early season games with a lot of heart and plenty of big names missing. the lads who put in a huge effort to get are season off to a good start look to be feeling it a bit.

at the start of the comp we had sinfield, mcguire, burrow, webb, buderus, senior and jjb out. so im not suprised a few are looking knackerd. webby is nowhere near his best and buderus needs time too, even though i thought he was our best player on monday and was pretty good on friday at the bulls.

Without going overboard, McGuire and Jones-Buchanan are ever-presents this season while Sinfield has missed one from the first eleven.




Ignore the meaningless team tackle figure, gawd knows where it comes from.

Adding together the individual Leeds players missed tackle totals and subtracting their previous missed tackle totals (it sounds complicated but excel copes pretty well with it,) these are Leeds' missed tackles per each SL game played so far.

03 - Celtic (H) - 22
01 - Wakefield (H) - 26
02 - Hull KR (A) - 18
04 - Warrington (A) - 31
05 - Wigan (H) - 36
06 - St Helens (A) - 50
07 - Catalans (H) - 8
08 - Bradford (A) - 44
09 - Salford (H) - ??

Salford to follow when I update the spreadsheet courtesy of the Super League website.

Add to that the Bradford Bulls game...

Quite the opposite this time, some complimentary ones

I hope I am wrong! I am coming to the match and would love to see Hudds win it!

HUDDERSFIELD BY 14

I've watched them since Wembley 78....the young uns don't know how lucky they are.

....One of my most vivid memories is watching Eric Grothe make his debut in driving snow. Wonder what he was thinking that day ? We can all still offer constructive suggestions though.
McGuire reminds me so much of Schofield....who DID play r.centre and/or stand off successfully with the similar pacy backing up style.

I remember that game mostly for Russell Smith sending Matt Diskin to the sin bin for Danny Ward's obstruction on Paul March. Easy mistake to make.

thought jjb and maggs were missing at the start!! must have been pre-season games i saw!! my bad!!

I reckon we'll win by 8 and kick start our season. We need to show the form that we did at the start of the last year.

i hope you are sitting in the giants end then! we don't want your sort in our end, you are a trouble causer

Yes, and not play chumpions rugby

Huddersfield by 20+.

I hope

Leeds 24 Huddersfield 12

But you can't predict this season. Anything can happen.