Do we though?

In terms of us being full strength next week, I don't think price knows what our best 13/17 is.

I hope charnley is fit, because mamo isn't as good
Why did we release Atkins early? If Goodwin fails his head test we're fooked. ( Obviously nobody could've guessed this one).

8/9/10 is obvious, 11/12/13 not so much

Thought currie was ok tonight, livett is weak in defence, sita can't start, 13 minutes is pathetic, unless there was an injury I missed.

Westwood is done for me, one year too far unfortunately. Jason Clark, thought he was impressive early on in his defensive work but as the season has gone on I'm failing to see what he brings.

This will be our 6th Wembley appearance in 11 years and it's the first one where I think we'll lose

How can we possibly win with a leaky defence - left side in particular, lack of go forward, no shape in attack and no idea how to score tries?
We're making too many basic errors- missed tackles, dropped passes, going one man out in attack.
Players trying to solve things on their own, no runners onto the ball.
Confidence shot to bits.

All they can do is work hard and give the same effort Philbin gave tonight.

Still I can only see a massive hiding coming.....

Were getting Smashed plain and simple, and that's the bottom line, end of.

I was convinced we'd win our first 3 cc final's because we had the pack to make gain and the headstrong half's to win it...

In our last 2 loses I was full of doubt..we had a pack to compete but we were controlled by Roberts who just lacked the stuff all season and Sandow who had enough stuff to last Soho all season...

But now we are once again managed by a head strong professional in Austin and surrounded with Clark and Ratchford have a winning recipe again.

This CC is the most confident of a win I've been since 2010.

You are puddled Duckie !

A puddled duck is a happy duck.

I'm not phased...I was pretty much the only one on here that said we will beat Hull FC in the semi regardless of the previous results and defeat to them only 2 weeks earlier because we simply have a stronger team....I got lamb blasted for that too....and I'm still reading posts from people saying Hull are better than us??...well let me tell you they aren't....and Salford will knock them out in the top 5 play offs.

IF he plays then it’s on one leg, the other injected, and Wembley finds him out good and proper. He didn’t sound or look confident tonight when interviewed.

Blimey, I don’t think we’ll do it with XIII but with XI... you’re having a laugh!

To be fair he always looks like that when interviewed. Not sure why he sat on his own though. Unless the camera angle just made it look that way on tv.

He won’t play. Foot still in a boot. 6-8 week injury.

“No chance” was the exact quote.

Not in the boot anymore i have seen this with my own eyes. He said it will take a lot for him not to play at Wembley. Pretty sure he'll play. So will Ratch and Goodwin.

I’d rather none of them played, if we have ambitions of winning the Grand Final I would want them all fit to aim for that.

Definitely not in a boot anymore so where you’ve got this information I don’t know?

It isn't usually Austin that loses the ball. We have several other players skilled in that department.

Unless it was a trendy sneaker he had on earlier this morning in the Village hotel, it was certainly a protective boot.



Maybe, just maybe he’s been advised to put it back on....

The team were using the pool and business hub this morning, at the village.

I think we have had a personality transplant because I can’t see us getting near the GF let alone winning it. At some point to win games you have to be able to score tries and we look less able to do that by the week, whatever the hallucinogenically enhaced Duck might think.

He's definitely walking around without a boot. Drove past him in Stockton heath on Wednesday. He was limping heavily though so not convinced he'll make Wembley.

Feels like that time Leeds played Hull in the CC at Cardiff. The chat all week was would Senior make it, would Leeds do everything they could to get him out there.

They did, Senior was unfit and a liability, Hull beat them and TS copped a lot of criticism for pushing him out there unfit.

Could be a similar narrative for us if we lose on Saturday - "why didn't we give someone else a chance rather than push Austin out there to go through the motions so he could have his day out at Wembley".

Going around saying "phew, my leg hurts" wouldn't even fool Baldrick!

Leave him out and get him ready for the grand Final with Charnley, If he's not 100% fit don't risk him.

Been told today that the chances of Austin playing is 'unlikely'.

Been told today that the chances of Austin playing is 'unlikely'.

Ah but, which Grand Final are you talking about? 2020? 2021? It sre as hell ain't gonna be 2019.

All it takes is two or three freakishly good performances in September. Highly unlikely, but just because you're breathing down our necks doesn't mean we're a total write-off.

But like I say... highly unlikely!