Quote ="Wires71"Got a horrible feeling that the Leeds' players and fans want it more. '"
I actually think now Peacock and Burgess is out, that the psychology of this works out well for us (as in how much their players want it, how much the fans want it is irrelevant). They have all had lots of success in Super League but they haven't won the Challenge Cup, the only player on Saturday who's left from the 1999 win is going to be captaining us instead.
This is one they have wanted for a long time, and I'm sure when they beat Saints in the semi part of them felt like the job was nearly done, they just needed to put in a professional performance and they would beat us and achieve what they had been wanting for so long. But now Peacock and Burgess are out it will have got them cacking it, in many ways we're the team with less to lose as we haven't been a great team with the CC evading us, like it has them.
Imagine if we got to the Grand Final this year and knew it was going to be against Wigan, I would be excited thinking, this is something we've not done before, and this is a team we should (no guarantees) beat, we have beaten them a lot of times before. But if we then lost Morley and Westwood before the game, I'd be thinking uh-oh, we're likely to blow it AGAIN having gone so close.
I think if I had to place the mortgage either way on this one I would find it hard to call, I would probably put it on us now.
