Not letting Wigan get a lead early will be important. We need to sharpen up our attack enormously, as we didn't break down a determined but limited Cas team until near the end of the game.

We will (hopefully if both fit) have a very quick centre-wing partnership in Watkins-BJB on one side and a big partnership on the other in Ablett-Hall. You cannot try to set the two sides up in the same way. Watkins needs to be given ball in space which means when attacking the line standing further back, giving him a chance to run at the opposing centre. He's not going to do as well with 'crash ball' close to the line.

Leeds' playmakers also eat a lot of space out wide before setting up others. Its been a problem for a long time which McGuire last season seemed to have started to change. The problem with your halfbacks continually taking the ball wide themselves is that it allows the defence to slide (that old chestnut about the ball going faster than the player is still true). They could all do with trying to stay a bit more central for more tackles, and trusting the centres and full back to make the width.

Bottom line is, for all our creative players - Burrow, McGuire, Sinfield, Buderus and Webb - we managed to score one try in 80 minutes against Cas. With those lot in there we ought to be able to structure every attacking set of tackles far better than we do.

That's bang out of order!

Leeds gameplan should be what they've done twice this season to Wigan - play your sets, kick to the corners to prevent Tomkins getting too much ball in broken field and make Wigan play from their own half.

When you get the chance to attack their line, take it right then stack numbers on the left hand side and force Tomkins (J) and Charnley to make some difficult decisions. Saints did it twice to them late on Saturday and got rewards for it.

Manic offloads and high risk plays are not the way to beat this Wigan side IMO.

In all honesty, with hand on heart, I'd still have given it with video evidence. If there was contact with the shoulder it was no more than a brush on the way to the neck.

Penalty every single time.

It was a penalty everytime imo, I'm struggling to see any controversy in it at all.

What I have seen no mention of is the "strip" from McGoldrick as Bailey? was attempting to score, far more legs in that for mine.

Why do you assume all offloads are manic?

We have come twice come close to Wigan this year but still have failed to win. They will expect us to repeat the same tactics.

Leeds have been very successful with an offload game for many years now but we no longer have the speed to slice through as we once did so we have to make the balldo the work.

As I said we must keep Wigan from getting away from us early doors with committed defence and good discipline in the first half. To have any chance of winning we will have to be prepared to take some risks in the second half which means some offloads and regular backing up.