Coach..Never ever again. I made myself that promise after the 2012 Wembley defeat. The coach is a long, uncomfortable and joyless affair indeed. So when you think its all over as you can see the Wembley arch as you're around junction 4 of the M1 only for the coach driver to take an early exit and be bewildered that he has pulled into the services for a 45 mins break...10 mins from Wembley. Total utter VVanker...

This time it will be my first experience of the train down to Wembley.

We decided never to go to Wembley on the coach again after 1998 (I think). We go for the weekend and it's the only way to get there for us. We are going down on Thursday this year, because we enjoy it so much, we wanted an extra day. The cancellation of the tube strike was greeted with much rejoicing.

I've never used the train for a one day visit to the final (although I have for Internationals and Leeds games at London, and it's no hassle, and loads better than the coach. You get longer in that there London too.

The club coach last year was relatively sombre both there and back too.

I don't have a huge amount of choice - couldn't find any particularly cheap train travel and am unemployed at the moment. Moving to Glasgow in a few weeks for a new job so am back on the coach up there all day on Sunday. Thankfully was able to get a cheap train ticket back to Leeds later in the week. If I am still up there in a year and Leeds are in the final again, it might be as easy to fly - coach will be out of the question though!

It is just easier for me to get National Express this year in particular, as I have to get to town from LS27 before setting off.

Problem with trains is the short notice between the semi-final and final means it's hard to pick up any cheap tickets, unless you're prepared to go down at 6am and come back at midnight.

Did anyone go on the charter train the club put on to Murrayfield for the 2000 final? Had to stop virtually every ten minutes to let a scheduled service go past, was like something out the 1950s inside with the laminated wood tables and old-fashioned seats.

Thank god the powers that be have put Ben Thaler in charge, Best referee by a country mile this season!!!!!

I see people still being critical of the coach!

I've been on train twice. Once was 1995 I think to Wembley. The other was one of the Cardiff finals (the Hull FC one I think) where the charter train got delayed at Doncaster station for at least an hour. Made it to the stadium with about 20 minutes to spare (and then wished I hadn't)

Some really smelly peolle on our coach last year. Some really really really bad farting going on.

Yes. I nearly had a fight with a Bradford fan who didn't understand the concept of irony when I replied to his remarks about Leeds being 'yids'.

It's not pleasant coming out of Wembley on the coach when you've lost.To be fair some Wire fans were quite sporting ,some were banging on the side and oh that deathly quiet quiet coach all the way home

we normally drive to peterborough then catch the train in from there but we drove to watford for the wigan vs hull final only to find the train washed out and a supposedly hour long coach ride to the nearest working train line, after a 3 hour runaround we finally got to our seats 10 minutes into the game and saw probably the worst final ever

Our favourite hassle free route to Wembley is to drive to Warwick Parkway (easy on M1, M69 & A46) and get the Chiltern Railways train direct to Wembley Stadium for £29 return. Two trains per hour, takes about 1 hour 20 minutes and parking at the station for £5. This means you avoid the busy bit on the roads both ways and a very quick return journey if required.

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Gerard's cross station, Big car park then train (again children railways) straight to wembley station 20 mins about £8-9 return. Less than £5 parking all day

I've done that but parked at a little place called Beaconsfield. free parking and £12 return

Seems Thaler is the ref

Yes but think of the cost of all that extra fuel you will use and the extra driving time and the extra traffic hassle. And you could be having a pint in your local by half eight.

Warrington.

We mustn't forget that HKR have beaten both Wigan & Warrington to get to the final. Both teams that have beaten us well this year so they've shown that they know how to beat top teams in one-off games.
They will be highly motivated (Millar time again?) & I suspect it could be much harder than some on here believe.
I'm starting to get nervous already.

They beat both those teams in very wet conditions.

The weather will defo play its part. KR need to be praying for heavy rain.

Leaving Bradford Interchange at 06:50 gets in to London for 10:15...Long day but hopefully it'll be worth it.

We've also beaten top teams in Saints and Hudds, and in good style. Whilst we did lose to Warrington earlier in the year, the week after the cup semi we battered them. I also think Wigan probably looked past HKR which we won't given its the final. People point out HKR's good showings in the cup this year, but our cup showings have been just as (if not more) impressive.

Two factors for me
- last 8 Cup games stretching back to the start of the 2014 campaign. Leeds haven't conceded more than 16 points in any of those games. Our defence hasn't covered itself in glory at times during the league campaign but it's stepped up come cup time just like HKR's.

- we've played 29 games this year and scored 24 points or more in 26 of those. The only 3 were the losses to Warrington and the Magic game vs Wigan. Whilst HKR have defended really well in those cup wins I don't think they have that particular style of defence in them that Wigan use to get in our faces and rattle us.

I'll go Leeds 34 HKR 14
Watkins MOM with a couple of tries.

The current forecast for Saturday looking pretty good, not much likelihood of rain (20%) with temperatures in the range 19-23 degC, light wind from the SE.
Should be ideal rugby playing & watching weather.
To all of you going, enjoy the game & have a great weekend or day.

In our cup games this year we've averaged 32 points for an 21.5 against. Our defence hasn't actually been that great in the cup, Wigan aside. I know both games against Wire and Wigan were in the wet but as wet games tend to be more of a slog down the middle, I'm not sure that plays into our hands very much at all. When we came to Headingley we caused Leeds real problems spreading the ball wide. If we can do the same on a big Wembley pitch and Leeds offence doesn't quite fire you just never know. I'm not going down expecting to win but I don't subscribe to the view that we should be 'praying for heavy rain'.

Are these Oyster Cards actually any good?
I've always just bought a Travel card 1 day off-peak for £12 but couple of people at work have mentioned getting an Oyster Card.

There's no need to bother with either Oyster or Travelcards any more. Just scan in and out with your bankcard and if you get up to the amount of the Travelcard cost it'll cap, if you don't you'll only have paid for the journeys you made.