Jeff you are a bit of lefty - why should rugby players be any different from other humans? I am sure you lift your performance at the PO when it is busier so why do you think rugby players are different? did Noam write something along these lines from his very privileged right wing background?

Ali Lauititi to score the winning try would be fitting

Have you seen the game plan

What's it like living in an ivory tower? Must be great looking down at us minnions. Here's to a Wakey win.

I expected a bitter personal response from you after I'd cited your all-time favourite poster boy as a player who confirmed via his twitter account that he doesn't always try and doesn't care about the rhinos performances and results unless it's games that really count for something.

I might not admire his dishonest, half-d attitude to most games (which is no doubt shared by many other players in the rhinos squad) but at least I admire his honesty in admitting it.

I doubt such attitudes will be aired to market the sale of season tickets.

Oh well if it was on Twitter in response to being wound up by a rival fan then it MUST be true!........or alternatively he's heard the accusations loads of times now and replied with something that would get plenty of bites, and succeeded.

I must have missed all those full-blooded, no nonsense, 100% committed performances from McGuire and the rhinos during the SL regular season. If only McGuire and Co could provide the regular season evidence.

Like a play off rugby match you mean? We take one game at a time and show respect to teams we play

I'd go along with the bit about playing standards and maybe competitiveness (although the latter pre-dates franchising by far). And you might be right that honest endeavour and entertaining RL were flushed down the toilet some time ago. Presumably this was prior to 1976, which is when I started watching, as there were games then in which teams/players didn't exert themselves, when passes were dropped, when tackles were missed, when ageing teams got lazy and when coaches were sacked as a result etcetera. Fortunately, these games aren't the ones that are best-remembered but it's only those with the rose-tinted glasses of the deepest hue that would claim that they never happened.

In William's world the Stones Bitter Championship was better than the ARL and Mal Reilly's lions were winning ashes series.

Depends what your aspirations are.

Cas won a play-off match once. Look at the glory they bask in now.

Keep talking guys. Its all good motivation for us. You are of course the favourites but I think you are carrying the elite Leeds think a bit too far. You finished 5th for goodness sake. You are hardly showing your world beating form.

And I must remember my coat tomorrow as it's always cold in the stadium when the Headingley walk starts.
Quite a few of our recent games have gone to the final second. If you like I'll post on here so you can find out who won.

That's the idea of a forum, that's generally how they work.

Yeah because all the Wakefield players are sat at home reading SouthStander determined to win now not because of the chance of winning a GF but to prove a few people on here wrong.

Enjoy your latest probationary SL franchise news Mr Sellout

The lack of respect from the Leeds fans is already commented on. Your individual comments of course are not being read, but the feeling is well known at the club.
You can be confident without being so dismissive. I hope it back fires on you.

Respect has to be earned.

9th doesn't earn respect.

You are whipping boy SL rabble.

Yer ok. Let's talk after the game.

Why not? You're being confident of Wakefield's chances and also dismissive of the Leeds' fans right to be confident which stems from the playoff experience and success we've had over 10 years, as well as home advantage as well as finishing 3 places above you in the table. (4 if you include Bradford's on field results)

FWIW i actually think Wakefield pose a serious threat this Saturday and we'll have to be on the ball to beat you but stop working yourself up about a couple of fans not fancing Wakey's chances against us, i saw just as many Trinity fans dismissive of Salford's chances of beating you last weekend and possibly ruining your playoff chances.

I guess it is all down to tone of voice.
Of course you are the better side. The league shows that. But I'm just surprised that so many are so dismissive of a team that recently beat you. Calling us whipping boys is not the same as saying you think you will win by 20.

Either way I look forward to either saying well done in a graceful manner and beating a retreat or coming back and reminding a few what they said.
Wakefield win either way as most are happy we are in the playoffs after the way we had to rebuild our team.

...and don't get me wrong, its your forum, you can do what you like. I was just surprised.

Quote ="PopTart"Wakefield win either way as most are happy we are in the playoffs after the way we had to rebuild our team.'" And so you should be, you've had a very good season in finishing 9th (a 4 place gain over 2011) and with a 25% improvement in SL Regular Round attendances. The most popular anticipated finish for Wakefield on this board's pre-season prediction comp viewtopic.php?f=17&t=515106 was 13th - 7th - 1 vote 9th - 3 votes 10th - 4 votes 11th - 9 votes 12th - 11 votes 13th - 21 votes 14th - 4 votes Just be happy with the improvement, enjoy the game and look forward to cementing a genuine play-off place next year.

Quote ="PopTart"Wakefield win either way as most are happy we are in the playoffs after the way we had to rebuild our team.'" And so you should be, you've had a very good season in finishing 9th (a 4 place gain over 2011) and with a 25% improvement in SL Regular Round attendances. The most popular anticipated finish for Wakefield on this board's pre-season prediction comp viewtopic.php?f=17&t=515106 was 13th - 7th - 1 vote 9th - 3 votes 10th - 4 votes 11th - 9 votes 12th - 11 votes 13th - 21 votes 14th - 4 votes Just be happy with the improvement, enjoy the game and look forward to cementing a genuine play-off place next year.

A genuinely earned play-off place should be finishing 5th as a bare minimum.

Which you finished in. Comments like that don't suprised me at all.

Well, I'm kinda hoping that having to finish higher than 5th in a 5 team play-off system in order to give oneself a realistic chance of winning the SL title... along with being rewarded more appropriately for one's regular season efforts... might just encourage this current Leeds side to take the regular season rounds more seriously than they currently do. I'm bored with them tossing it off against whipping boy SL rabble most weeks.

I fully expect Leeds to beat Catalan next week.

I also expect Wigan will select Leeds as their opponents the week after.

Just wondering if Wigan will be underdone going into that Semi Final? Particularly when one considers they'll have had two weeks off... next week and this week (that game against Catalan was the equivalent of a week off).

Wigan away might not be quite so tricky after all.

One win required for another appearance in the GF at Old Trafford.

The advantages of finishing 5th just gets better and better.