IMO, Cunningham was going backwards for the last couple of years. He was a big presence on the field, but missed a lot more tackles.

Scully made about 20 appearances in the last three years of his time. Brilliant when fit, but a salary cap liability for more than a couple of years.

Long - for the last couple of years he went missing far too often. Became a flat track bully who wanted to play the same way every week.

We were lucky really that they didnt go all at once. If they had, that might have been too big a hole to plug straight away. But we've replaced them more or less one at a time. Certainly helps.

Leeds may find they have a lot of players of retirement age over the next couple of years. Peacock (whose contract is due up), Sinfield, Maguire, Burrow, Senior are all on big contracts and are getting towards the latter stages. All fairly key. Buderus, Lauatiti similar. I just wonder if their next crop are as good as the Saints/Wigan crop and if they will have time to blood them all correctly.

Whilst the mutual respect thing is nice, we can't be having this in derby week.

Come on folks! I hope we muller you on Friday!

Fair do's mate,COYS.

Quite right - we hate you and you hate us.

Them's the rules

i was banned too and appealed and was banned again...think is some site admins are leeds fans

Back to the love-in, I said on another thread recently that Saints fans showed real class with the way they handled the GF defeat (and the resurgence of Wigan generally). Real class, which is a massive contrast with the laughable Wolfs and with the childish behaviour of the Whinos in recent days. When you add in the way Saints have gone about their business this year despite the disruption of playing at Widnes, bringing through yet more quality young players, it is all the more impressive. Dire may have made a lot of the early running in SL, but it wouldn't surprise me if (assuming we make it to the GF) our opponents were Saints.

EDIT - obviously I hope we win the derby 76-0