Yes.


or alternatively out of Warrington, Wigan and Huddersfield, they will choose the latter.

Hardly the most "interesting" point on the forum I would have thought.........

Interesting in terms of "thought processes" to get there. I never said it was the most interesting point on the forum.

Under your scenario they couldn't pick Wigan and instead of choosing the team they beat the previous week would instead pick the team who has beaten them three times this season and the highest ranked club in the play-offs. As I said, "interesting".

you wrote 'interesting' and what you meant was 'complete b0llocks'

Leeds in the playoffs and Leeds in the regular system are chalk and cheese.

This!

Yes, because the performance of Leeds in the regular rounds and their performance in the playoffs has been identical over the last few seasons hasn't it?

You may be surprised to hear that the one time Leeds have had Clubcall, they chose the lowest ranked team.

Yes but no team has ever not picked the lowest placed team in clubcall, and Huddersfield have clearly had the better of Leeds in all three meetings this season, whereas Leeds would have beaten Wire in week 1 of the play offs and once during the regular season. I agree Leeds will pick their form up in the play offs but there's no way I could see them picking Huddersfield over Wire in those circumstances, I can't even see why you think they would to be honest

Not the issue.

Think you might need to explain that a little more for it to make any sense whatsoever.

to be fair he did say may be, however on top of all the logical arguements against this, Wigan would also play an extra match, and with our injuries and potential suspensions its highly unlikely losing is better.
Question: would it be better for Leeds or the Wires to lose - ignoring the extra match? I cant see it but maybe someone can?

If we win tomorrow, it will guarantee us a home tie in the semis, therefore Leeds / Warrington couldn't select us as you can't be done out of a home tie (even though we could be the lowest place team).
That's my reading of it, comments?

Isnt that why we couldnt pick Warrington last year because they won their semi?

Yes, the team with the club call only get a choice of two, the two teams who win in the knockout games played next week

They couldn't select us but they could select Hudds therefore sending the other to us.

Warrington lost their first game last year to St Helens. But won the next. So the choice then was Warrington or Leeds.

Over in Spain and can't make the game. Will be watching on Sky and I think we'll do them. Come on Wigan!

We bow to your magnificence.

Another question for you, which year was it when we got to the grand final and Adrian Lam was injured in the play offs, or was it the semi? I got this feeling that the same thing is going to happen but its Lockers who may play a part of getting us into the final but not play in it, and we will go down bravely to a Yorkshire side. The crystal ball goes mysty after that.

Lam missed 7 of the 10 matches unbeaten under Mike Gregory which led us to the 2003 Grand Final. Stand Off for all those games was Sean O'Loughlin with Luke Robinson replacing Lam in the 7 matches. The Grand Final was lost to Bradford.

We never had a proper Stand Off all that campaign after Julian O'Neill was released early. O'Loughlin and Nick Graham played six in spells with solo stand off appearances for Paul Johnson and a very young Kevin Brown.

Was a great season that one and the sacking of Stuart Raper was a total disgrace!

I remember shaking hands with Stuart and wishing him well..... He looked totally bemused by what was happening....

I was only fairly new to the game at the time but I couldn't really get my head around us sacking Endacott or Raper. They weren't really doing very bad jobs results wise

Didn't Raper supposedly announce he was leaving at the end of the season because Whelan was interfering in team matters? Mo and DW then said 'Okay, go now'? Granted, that response was hardly a ringing endorsement, but I'm pretty sure the impetus was from Raper.

Could be wrong though.

Any idea how many fans are travelling over?

Giants haven't even sold out 5,000 £10 tickets!!

A good reaction from last week should be enough to beat the Giants.

I'd expect anywhere between 1000 and 2000 from us. Hopefully a noisy away end.

I don't know, perhaps. I remember him announcing he was leaving at the end of the year but I never read anything mentioning those two. I always thought it was just a kneejerk reaction to Widnes beating us, and the knowledge that he was going to leave anyway. Mind you, Gregory did a great job getting us to the SL final that year, and the CC final the following year. A massive shame we never got to see how he would have panned out as a coach.