I think I'll DEAL, Noel.

SNIGGER

i'll laugh when they are out of the play offs. some people might just end up with egg on there face..........................

Do they still make lemon bon bons???

They were never actually 'made' in the conventional sense Em.


Simply a by-product of nuclear waste!!!

We haven't actually finished top yet people.

We still have the small matter of beating them at our middin.

If I am counting any chickens I won't do like the Saints fans have done these last two years and by shooting my load too quickly.

Although confident we can win the "Big One" again this year anybody would be very foolish to write stains off.

Despite the fact that more teams have won it from top than have not!

Saints have chocked in the GF for the past 2 years, it had nothing to do with finishing top of the league.

For me, that doesn't give enough credit to the immense performance from our boys, especially 2008

I agree, the best team won on both occasions but Saints were heavy favorites for both finals.

The league leaders shield is a nice to have, but is only worth something if you back it up in the play-offs.

Currently we have neither, and form can change around quite quickly (although Saints seem dire at the moment, and there are a lot of parallels with Leeds in 2006)

Very true.

However, you have form and confidence going into the playoffs, where as we are playing like s*it.

Nearly every year you can tell who will do the business simply on form going into the play-offs (remember Bulls in 2005?). Saints are potentially the best team in SL but this means absolutely nothing the way their form has disapeared down the toilet.

Maybe they will pick up the SL biggest tosspot trophy for Sean "Bob Marley" Long.

Yes, keep perpetuating that myth - they were only heavy favourites according to a few Leeds fan (who should have shown a bit more faith in their team).

Last year it was about even with the bookies on the day, with Leeds big favourites at the start of the season.

We were very slight favourites in 2007 but again there wasn't much in it.

I reckon you worms will turn it on in the playoffs.

But from experience, when you are playing poorly in the months before the playoffs it never ends well.

What about the form of Leeds and Saints in last year's GF qualifier. What could you tell from that?

Depends on the personnel we get back from injury, Maurie and Cayless are much needed to give the other props a more equal workload.

We just look crap at the moment.

From that match I would say that most Rhinos fans would be soiling themselves, but the way we then played against Wigan after that proved to me that there was no favourite for the final. People were reading too much into Saints v Rhinos and forgetting how we demolished an in-form Wigan.

That was one game.

The form of leeds the in weeks leading up to the playoffs was pretty good.

we thrashed wigan and cas i think, ground a victory against bradford and beat a determind wakey team.

There's enough crap on our board atm from our own 'fans' never mind you lot sticking your 2p's in!

Oh the irony – you just quoted a 'Saints fan', but you knew that didn't you?

Only the first part of the reply was aimed at Gav.

User names only please - we don't want to breach the AUP now do we

Tell him that, he's giving away my identity..!