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He obviously hasnt watched much SL this season then



Leeds would be mid table over there at best. Saints just below and the rest would struggle to win more than 3 or 4 games all year.

Expect a glut of Wigan fans shortly arguing the toss!

maybe we could win a decent ammount of games. I think we'd fall behind soon though because they bring through high quality youngsters at a very quick rate

Bless

Obviously i repect langers opinion but i don't agree.

Does he watch super league week in week out?

Leeds would never be able to handle the week in week out intensity (it's the same old story).

Leeds would finish outside of the playoffs probably, but after a few seasons would start to adapt.

Look at the intesnity in the grand final and they'd need to be up to that level week in week out.

Leeds spend all season priming themselves to play like that in the grand final.

Well we only have the results of one off games to go by against Australian club sides. Those have gone pretty good (I know Manly beat us, but they beat everybody in the NRL as well), and as that's always against their Champions it's not a bad place to start.

Could we play like that every week? Well with better weather (especially during pre-season), a full, longer, pre-season to acclimatise, no Challenge cup, who knows?

Strange thread this.

Everyone who disagrees with Alfie Langer end up agreeing with him by the end of their first sentence.

He hasn't said that Leeds would be NRL Champions, he said that Leeds would "do really well" in the competition, hasn't even suggested a play off spot, but that "they'd do really well".

Anyone disagree with him now ?

I don't realy see why Leeds woundn't do well.

Who is anyone on here to really disagree with Langer anyway? This guy really knows his stuff.

It is impossible to say if Leeds would win it or come close though as it will never happen. However, I believe Leeds AND Saints would do really well and could pretty much match all the top NRL teams, but if Celtic Crusaders played the bottom NRL club it would be 100 - 0 as their league is much more even and competetive than ours throughout!

Haven't you noticed the proliferation of prediction threads on forums like these ?

Some people like to think that their geek-like "knowledge" of the game garnered from rugby magazines, newspapers and watching a bit, offers them an insight that the professionals don't get - there are users on this very forum who are convinced that they know far more then the games top professionals

Their was nothing "geek - like" about my comment! What's the point in having these forums if people arn't going to say what they think??

I take this as being the pre test match hype. Nothing more nothing less.
Struggling to find comments about the England team. Oh well lets tell them theit top club could give our clubs a challenge.

Its a nothing statement. It will never happen, so it can't come back and bite him.

Personally I think Leeds would do ok, start well, but fade towards the end of the year, as the intensity catches up with them

Soundbite. Means nothing. So there.

Very similar to the Chav ball pundits offering their opinion on Rangers and Celtic in the English Premier League. It probably won't happen but people still have theoretical subjective opinions of how well they would perform.

Personally I'm quite happy with how Leeds are doing in SL. We should rename it the World Super League taking a leaf out of USA's rounders series.

I agree about Leeds being good enough for a mid-table NRL finish. The likes of Salford would not win a game all season. We'll never match their quality, but maybe our competition is at least starting to even out a bit more.

Don't tell me - Langer [imust[/i be a closet Saints supporter...

you contradict yourselve there... a bit like my mate David

We clearly can match the quality at the top level of the league game its the quantity or depth where we struggle.

And yet Salford beat Leeds and St Helens and both Challenge Cup Finalists

Beat me too it, is this the S type arrogance G1 speaks of.

They caught Leeds and Saints on a good day. If Leeds or Saints put in a performance like they do in GF's (ok maybe not Saints

) then Salford would be lucky to score.

But Leeds and Saints can't maintain that for level of intensity for the whole season.

The poster stated Salford wouldn't win a game and yet they beat the 4 finalsits that compteted in the 2 finals available. Therefore Leeds would have to up their intensity a lot to be able to compete. Don't forget that Leeds CC defeat also meant they had better rest periods than most teams.

Even the short NRL season with it's bye weeks?

They can't its true, although I would guess that they could after a season or so, like Catalans.

However, Leeds & Saints can generally turn up and win in 2nd gear for many games in SL, and the likes of Salford have to be on their best to hope to win one of these games, and combined with the other team not playing so well.

When Salford raise a game its not the the same level as Leeds or Saints raise their game, and therefore I think they'd struggle to get any results