You make the club call!

Its Leeds for me

Leeds.

As it's a fixture Leeds have won on eight previous occasions - including beating our best team of recent times on our own ground after we chose them two years ago - and Huddersfield have only played in it once before and lost, I would pick Huddersfield. We will however pick Leeds.

Leeds.

I was 50/50 before the Leeds vs Saints game but would now choose Leeds on the assumption Delaney and Jones-Buchanan will be unavailable.

I also think this provides us with the best chance of winning the competition overall.

Our biggest obstacle is the play-off officiating. The reluctance to penalise offside and slowing the play the ball dovetails perfectly with Leeds' play-off tactics.

After watching last nights game deffo Leeds.

You could look at last nights game and think leeds are battered up. True. But then they could also just be 'battle hardened'. Many times in the past leeds have looked like it's going to be a game too far, then they've pulled it out. Not saying that will happen this year, but they are a dangerous beast.

Still, unless wire flip a coin they'll pick leeds because they're the lowest ranked team, as everyone does. Club call is a pojntless gimmick.

I'll be surprised if you do not select Leeds, in fact scrub surprised and insert whoever has the final say and doesn't select Leeds they need their head examining.

Leeds just had the most frenetic, fast paced & brutal game of the season. JJB got a knee injury, Delaney looked knackered, Maguire was obviously not 100%. The game was played at full pelt with every tackle being a bone cruncher. Leeds will only get 6 days to recover from the game & won't be able to fully prepare for it until Sunday lunch.

Pick Leeds we have the best chance of reaching the Grand Final if we select them.

the decision is purely on the basis of how hard and physical last nights game was.

Like you say though, it could have the opposite effect and send leeds in feeling battle hardened.

I have no doubt you will pick Leeds. We finished lower in the table and just played a brutal game where we picked up knocks. That said, picking Leeds for Club Call doesn't usually work well for teams, and regardless of how 'battered' we look, when it comes to the Grand Final our players seem to be able to find something deep within to pull out a win in seemingly impossible conditions; I would not want to be the team facing Leeds to get to OT.

I also think this is a classic example of why we should get rid of Club Call. With no disrespect intended to Huddersfield, when a team feels they have to choose the current Champions; and a team who have been Champions for 5 out of the last 6 years instead of a team who haven't even seen Old Trafford, it shows something's wrong, and all being forced to choose a team does is give the opponent an even bigger motivator. I'm not saying we will be more difficult to beat than the League Leaders as they have clearly been in better form than anyone else, but in general, anyone thinking 'Let's choose Leeds instead of Huddersfield in the Semi-Final' seems crazy. Again, I know there are a lot of factors against Leeds and why you would choose them, but it's a very strange system.

As a Leeds fan, I'd much rather be going to Wigan than Wire. I think whoever wins Leeds/Wire Semi-final will go on to be Champions.

I expect you to pick us, we have failed to beat you once this season, and have less play off experience.

Leeds are SL experts on how to win games when the chips are down, see you Thursday night.

I'll bet my backside on Canal Street Wire will pick Leeds

I would be amazed if we picked Huddersfield... They have unfinished business with Wigan, i can see Hudds beating them.

Wire v Hudds final please

lmao, top, brave man!

I hope you pick Huddersfield now

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I can see peoples call for picking Leeds, god, I've talked myself into picking them this morning.

but the giants had a low intensity training session on Thursday, Leeds are battle hardened

Whatever happens we got ourselves a tough old game on Thursday night. I recall the semi v Leeds at the HJ - so much tension around the place, a quiet crowd and a pulsating game

More of the same on Thursday please

I have voted for the Giants, not because of their record against us, or Leeds incredible playoff record, but simply because I believe that once you have beaten a team in the playoffs you shouldn't have to play them again until the final.

seeing that quote written certainly makes me think how daft the playoff is...once beaten they ought not to be in it at all.

Outrage etc from fans of whoever ever we dare to..

The idea of playing Leeds twice was a nightmare two weeks ago but after sticking 40 on them and then watching them stuggle against a team with no halves, it seems less scary.

Got to beat them all sometime.

I was certain we should go for Huddersfield but after watching last night I really don't care.

The game was a good spectacle but pretty poor at times with some awfully bad unforced errors time and again that kept destroying the momentum when it looked as though one team would start taking control.

Feel extraordinarily confident and hope it doesn't all blow up in our faces!

We should do as TS suggested and toss a coin, and do it in full view of the sky cameras. Would take all of the heat out of the decision

and therein is the problem with the play off system

I don't think they'll be any outrage from either side. Think it's a really tough choice for you, I can see reasons why you'd go either way and it's not a choice I would envy you having to make.



This is what I'd do. I think it's a 50/50 call for you and this completely avoids giving whoever you choose added motivation. I also think it would help push them to get rid of this ridiculous gimic.