19 for our most important game of the season to date... As expected after such an under par performance, Finn misses out.

Chris Annakin
Tinirau Arona
Matty Ashurst
James Batchelor
Mason Caton-Brown
Anthony England
David Fifita
Ryan Hampshire
Keegan Hirst
Justin Horo
Tom Johnstone
Ben Jones-Bishop
Max Jowitt
Reece Lyne
Jacob Miller
Pauli Pauli
Tyler Randell
Bill Tupou
Kyle Wood

So Rocky back in the halves with Jowitt at fullback?

Injury crisis they say, only missing 3 & 11 from top 13

1 Ashton Golding
2 Tom Briscoe
4 Liam Sutcliffe
5 Ryan Hall
6 Joel Moon
7 Richie Myler
8 Adam Cuthbertson
9 Matt Parcell
10 Brad Singleton
12 Carl Ablett
13 Stevie Ward (c)
14 Brad Dwyer
17 Mitch Garbutt
19 Brett Ferres
22 Ash Handley
24 Jack Walker
27 Cameron Smith
28 Mikolaj Oledzki
30 Josh Walters

Should be a belter of a game.

Don't know why anyone's supposed they do it every season, Fein inguries mid season then lo and behold it's a miracle back from the dead super fit and ready to fire on all cylinders just in time to win the play off final and claim the big money,.or maybe I am being a bit cynical?.

I would say if that is the case then the club would be incredibly stupid to put themselves in this situation - They have no chance of making the top 4 and if they lose on Friday they have to rely on the results of other teams to escape from that bottom 4.

They have had some terrible injury problems this season, I think at one point they were missing around 12 out of there strongest 17, just as they had some awful luck with injuries in 2016 and ended up in the bottom 4.

They have had bad injury problems, but they are now welcoming some of there better players back, I dont think there is any ulterior motive.

With all that in mind, do you think they might be bringing a couple or so back because of the position they find themselves in where in normal circumstances they might not risk them.

Maybe so, I suppose it depends on if they think a lets say a Ablett at 70% fitness is better than a Walters who is fully fit. If they are playing a few players that are not 100% I hope we can pick up on it early and punish them throughout the game.

There is absolutely no doubt that Leeds were always so confident of making the play offs each season that, they rested and repaired their top players in order to have them in good nick at the business end of the season.
This worked for them on multiple occasions and they have been caught out twice, so, not such a bad gamble and with the ageing squad that they had, it wasn't a bad idea for a number of their players to play fewer games.

Wakefield getting 6 start on the handicap, which shows what the bookies think and although Leeds have been in dire form, if Trinity cant win this one, we will more than likely need something from out final game, at Huddersfield, to avoid the middle 8's
Having dropped Jowitt from FB and moved Hampshire our of the halves, when we were winning games, it looks like, having bashed their confidence, we are asking them to save us.Let's just hope that they can

Maybe so but this was not the case in 2016 nor is it the case this season - If they have done that in the past then good on them if they could, to me that is just managing your squad very well and I don`t begrudge them for that at all. 8 start with Sky and 2/1 just to pick up the win!

The return of the favourite son and Lowes and it's on Sky. Eddie will be so excited that he probably won't even mention the opposition, just Leeds all night. Thank God Ben Barba does'nt play for Leeds. We will not be 'allowed' to get anywhere near a win.

I'd not even thought of that! Jesus Christ!

I think 2016 was a result of the pitch being underwater and unusable down at Kirkstall? Same year as the virus in the camp at Wiggin?
They haven't looked as fit as usual in many games where they normally found a way to win in the past.
That said Chewy, I got a bad feeling about this one.

Dare I ask who the ref is, sure not J.... C....?

Hicks is ref. Thaler is video ref.

Only one change in squad. Finn out Batchelor in.
That guarantees my attendance.

One of the Cas fans that posts on here said that Leeds came out all guns blazing for the first 15 minutes, then fizzled out.
With our track record of slow starts, if some of the Leeds players are only 70% fit, 15 minutes is enough time to rack up a match winning lead.

If this were a game of football it would be like

England v Albania

or

Man Utd V Northampton.

Surely you mean England v Croatia

back to normality

I did say how unfit Leeds were and I've just seen an interview with Liam Watts where he confirms this. He more or less says they knew Leeds would fall away in the final 20 minutes and they did.
I can't see one weeks training making that much difference to their fitness.
If you can keep in touch score wise going into the final quarter you should win ok.

Ian Shirk the x Wakey plodder in charge of conditioning.

As I can't get to Leeds tomorrow night I will have to watch it on Sky

As Eddie Hemmings has spent most of his working life with his tongue up Sir Sinfields rectum and simply can't wait to continue, I will turn the sound down.

Tonights results make tomorrows game extremely nervous for fans and players.

If I was a Wakey player, I would be relishing the chance to condemn our rich neighbours to the middle 8's with a win against them.

So would I but I’m not sure it will happen. We have lost too many games by a close call and I’m not sure we will have the confidence to win this. I will be more than happy to be proved wrong