Quote="D.D."I have no problem with Huddersfield doing this. How could I after us doing it in the past? I'm happy with you gifting us the points and, if it's not competitive, as long as we win, I don't care.
However, it might be worth noting that the one time we did it the week before the final in 2002 (the 2004 one was two or three weeks before), we came badly unstuck in the final and the players looked just that crucial bit short of sharpness and cohesion.
In fact, going back over the years, I remember Saints doing it in 1987 and Leeds in 1994 too and it didn't work for either of them.
I hope this does not backfire on you the same way it did with us, but I'm just not so sure it's the right policy at all.'"
the thing about the final is there is always one loser. If we win it worked, it we don't it didn't. Regardless of how it pans out on the day that will be the assumption.
a week off for some of the players should do a power of good, worked against hull a week before saints and also look how hull kr and bradford did last week after there week off
do we play a weakend side against a more or less full strength saints and risk a heavy defeat which could demoralise the whole squad and go into the cup final on the back of 2 poor defeats
or
do we go there all guns blazing with as strong a team as we can muster i know we have at least 4 genuine injuries, wild,lolesi,fatz and hodgson,and go for a famous win which will boost confidence even more throughout the squad going into the cup final?
fair enough by playing our main men we run the risk of losing them to injury before wembley,but what effect would a potential shattering defeat have on us?
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