Leeds and Wakefield are on different levels. No way Leeds will let Turner play like the wildcats did.

Which is why the pack needs to stand up. It's all down to them to give our scratch halves a chance.

Everything crossed too that we don't get anymore injuries.

I think the pack are capable of getting on top if they are at their best. My only concern is lack of creativity which is obviously going to be our problem with having Walsh, lomax and Wilkin out. Even if we only had one of them then I feel we'd be in with a big shout of old Trafford providing the pack perform.

I can't see a win on Friday unfortunately

Leeds superleague form is worse than Wakefield, they have lost to Wakefield, Bradford and London lately.
If our pack gets momentum and put Leeds on the back foot there will be space for Wello, Turner and Lance to play positively.
I don,t think Leeds energy levels will be the same as the cup final last week.

Beat Leeds and were guaranteed top 3...

Great result for us!

Awful more like, 3 defeats and we could still end up 6th! Certainly possible too.

I'd say keeping them both away from us is as good a result as we could have hoped for

I'm hoping McDonnell will be at fullback as well. He offers us something very positive in attack, and we need all the positive in attack that we can get.

If we win tomorrow and Wigan and Cas lose we can't lose top spot.
Well we can hope.

A draw was probably the best result fir us in terms I'd getting top. Bad result if we don't finish top.

1 more win from 3 will make us guaranteed a top 4 spot to put a positive slant on things.

I'm think I may be a little over confident about his, mainly because we've often got a (weekly round) win against Leeds when we've needed a boost, so its making me feel a bit bullish.
Leeds are a tough outfit and when they put their mind to winning trophy, they're pretty hard to stop. If they've decided they're after the LLS, then tonight is massive for them and will be a tough 80 minutes for us.

Im not confident at all, but perhaps hopeful of what will undoubtably be an upset if we win. Lance is ok, but has failed numerous times to guide the team round the pitch. I was impressed by Turners effort last time out, but he's no halfback either. Also Robes has been nullified by opposition teams recently as he's our only strike player.
Not at all confident

I don,t see why we can,t nullify Sinfield and Burrows as well with the doubt of McQuire not in the 17, if we do that then they will also be less creative and turn into a forward battle with Manu and Sol opening things up out wide.
My main concern is Sliverwood and how he is going to shape the way the game is played.

Incredibly 1 win out of 3 could see us finishing top (we beat Leeds, Leeds beat Wigan, Cas drop points in France) and 0 wins out of 3 could see us finishing 6th. Regardless of the standard of Super League, this is one hell of an exciting finish. Just done my own calculations while I had a minute and I've come up with

Saints 40
Wigan 39
Cas 38
Leeds 36
Huddersfield 35
Warrington 33.

I'd have more chance of predicting the lottery numbers than that being right though.

I've been saying 1 win out 3 could do it but you wouldn't like to predict it at this stage.

It is an exciting finish but if it was 1st past the post or a top 4 play off (like next year) I would be pooing my pants about tonights game as it is so close. As it's not and we're guaranteed a top 8 place there's not so much pressure riding on it.

The bookies seem to be making Leeds favourites, and giving us a 4 point start on the handicap.

Couldn’t agree more! It’s shiny and proves the side has achieved something, which is more than a lot of clubs will be able to say, so if you can, win it, polish it, and stick in the sideboard then write it up in the record books. Sod the neigh sayers!

Ian Millward says differant and Saints will win by 6

Does it really matter where we finish? Play like we have against Leeds and we've no hope of any play-off progress.

We all know we won't win the gf. The point was we will come away with something this year.

Stop living in the past. We are not recent contenders for any silverware.

Only cas can win it now.

My money is on Cas.

Not living in the past - I reckon with Walsh & Lomax fit, we'd be do it.

Still irks rather a lot that during the time we were by far the best team in Superleague (not that long ago!), we didn't fulfil our potential in terms of silverware. Looking back over the SL era, anyone would be forgiven to think that Leeds had been the best team, when this just isn't true.

Anyway, finish top and one of my pre-season bets (I had a tenner on us for each of the LLS, GF Winners, CC Winners) comes up to give a small profit (I took us at 4-1 for the LLS)