1. Finish 5th
2. Whipping Boy Wakefield SL Rabble at home
3. Whipping Boy Catalan SL Rabble away
4. Wigan away...

OK... 4 might be a bit tricky.

Tricky but not impossible.

if leeds get to the grand final this year i'll bare my bollox in debenhams window

Agreed.

It's a Semi Final.

NOT a Final.

I remember ricky saying he would do that in Woolworths window one year....

And any photo taken of aforementioned event should be your avatar for 12 months

Pish poor effort Keith!

I'd suggest 3 and 4 in back to back weeks would be far from an 'easy route' to the GF. Certainly harder than last year!

Can we have a scenario if we finish 4th please?

put you off your curry

Week 1) Wigan away

If we won that - then probably Wigan at home in Week 3

If we lose week 1 then:
Week 2) Catalans home
Week 3) Wigan away

(All scenarios assuming there aren't any other away wins in the playoffs)

Finising 5th is much better than finishing 4th. Catalans away is definitely winnable, and Wakey at home is a game we should win. Wigan away is the big hurdle we're going to have to face at some point. That said, play like we did in the 3rd 20 mins against Salford, and we can blow anyone off the park.

Couldn't be any easier than last year as Huddersfield's collapse this year was earlier than usual.


A tougher route than the one for finishing 5th IMO

You could join Mr Schofield on his naked touch line to touch line run at Belle Vue Tad... he is already shaving his in preparation!

Worst logic ever.

Forgot the "we can blow anyone off the park" after one of the least intensive SL games I've ever seen...

Bit seriously if you think we beat Wakey, yet probably lose to Wigan, then 4th is a massive advantage over 5th. Hmmmmm, Catalans who have never won at headingley or a tough trip to the south of France??? Let me think!

Just because we won from 5th last year doesn't automatically make it the best place to finish.

Last year was a fantastic achievement imo but lets not forget this team is lacking Mags and Buderus so any GF appearance is a huge ask.

Sadly I believe it will be a Wigan v Warrington GF

Warrington have been a great 'cup' winning team, but still to prove they have the bottle to win a GF.
As for Wigan, they're just 4th best club in SL history, desperate to try reach the level set by Leeds & St Helens over the last few years. Arrogance alone does not win trophies.

If Leeds can't win the GF (and I don't think we can) then I'm shouting for Saints. Surely their GF appearance record deserves some reward.

please stop posting on here

Leeds will not win the GF this year, people need to stop referring back to last season.

Funny people said that last year...

if catalan beat the bulls next week and wigan beat saints, catalan will finish 3rd, so it would be saints instead of catalan

Wakey at home then

Which branch would that be

I've said all year that if Leeds finish 5th i don't think they'll win the GF this time. They are capable of it as we saw last year but i think the other teams will be looking at Leeds as the team to beat in the playoffs no matter where they come in the table and i got the sense last year that we kind of snuck into the playoffs quietly with no one really expecting Leeds or any team to be able to do it from 5th - 8th.

Warrington will eventually get it right in the playoffs one year, possibly this one, and Wigan i think will be very strong once the the playoffs start having not participated in this year's CC Final and with Tommy Leuluai returning for them. Even though we've had a lot of success against Saints in the GF, Leeds' record Away @ St.Helens is quite poor and a trip to France is obviously tricky.

I would still prefer 4th right now as i've said going to the DW to play Wigan won't frighten this squad and Wigan have lost their opening playoff game there in both of the last 2 years. Worst case scenerio we lose then we come back and have another crack in 2 weeks hopefully, i'd rather have 2 attempts to beat Wigan than just one. A 5th place finish and match against a Wakey team who have won 6 in a row and pushed us close at Headingley and beat us at Belle Vue has banana skin written all over it imo.