Re: For the love of God,Allah or whoever-McDermott GO!!! : Sun May 31, 2015 7:35 pm  

ThePrinter wrote:

I didn't say they didn't take it seriously, but not big occasion/attendance seriously like they would if we get to Wembley or Old Trafford.

As for writing performances of, you're guilty of writing off most wins we get with saying it was the opposition who were poor. You read into the lost at last year Magic weekend as the sole reason for our league showings for the remainder of the season.

You seriously think Wigan showed the same intensity yesterday as they did in GF - seriously!!

Even by your own admission Leeds have only put in two good halves of rugby this year in SL - so how is that they keep winning games? It must have something to do with the quality of the opposition - even if you believe Leeds are that much better than the rest that can play well below their best and still win you have to question the quality of the other teams. You cannot have it both ways.

Leeds have played 3 of the likely top 8 in recent weeks they have drawn 1 and lost 2 comprehensively. They have 3/4 more to play before the end of regular season so they need to get their game head on.

What I said was Leeds were never the same team after the Magic mauling by Wigan - they struggled to beat Leigh another side that physically roughed them up. You put it all down to the CC that is your prerogative - we don't agree.

Re: For the love of God,Allah or whoever-McDermott GO!!! : Sun May 31, 2015 7:37 pm  

Him wrote:

What the bejesus are you on about? Do you know what the word 'prediction' means?

Yes its a hypothetical view point it isn't going to happen, Huddersfield are a different team to Leeds Wigan would not play an identical way as they did against Leeds - if I could type slower for you I would.

Re: For the love of God,Allah or whoever-McDermott GO!!! : Sun May 31, 2015 7:43 pm  

loiner81 wrote:

Or... to do so they'll have to maintain this season's form for the next 7 weeks to give them a good advantage in the play offs and hopefully a home tie in the semis.
What's all this 'going back 12 months' malarky. The squad this season is different to the squad that ran out of steam last season. We've brought in (potentially) one of the best imports in years, we've lost some dead wood and players like Singleton & Sutcliffe are looking a different proposition to last year.

EDIT - Not to mention Stevie Ward, who's been like signing a new player.

The spine of the team is year older and the end of the season will be much tougher they will have to play the top sides week in week out for 7 weeks. The play offs don't start in 7 weeks the play offs start in 4 months.

Re: For the love of God,Allah or whoever-McDermott GO!!! : Sun May 31, 2015 7:45 pm  

Sal Paradise wrote:

Yes its a hypothetical view point it isn't going to happen, Huddersfield are a different team to Leeds Wigan would not play an identical way as they did against Leeds - if I could type slower for you I would.

Of course it's hypothetical. That was never in doubt. Why did you pretend it ever was? Was it to try and cover up your ridiculous comparison of 2 clubs results against different teams?

Re: For the love of God,Allah or whoever-McDermott GO!!! : Sun May 31, 2015 7:45 pm  

Clearwing wrote:

I think we did approach it in the same way. Wigan didn't approach it like Hudds though.

The week of the Hudds Cup game

"Challenge cup holders Leeds Rhinos will stick with a winning routine for their “biggest game of the season so far”, chief executive Gary Hetherington has confirmed.

“Last year the team went into camp before every Cup game, that worked and they will be doing the same this season,” Hetherington said ahead of Saturday’s Ladbrokes-sponsored sixth round tie at home to Huddersfield Giants."

The week of the Magic weekend game

"We've not really thought about it up to now," Ablett said.

"We had a big week with the cup and then we needed to back up last Friday, so the Magic Weekend hasn't really been a focus or something we've talked about."


HASN'T really been a FOCUS

Re: For the love of God,Allah or whoever-McDermott GO!!! : Sun May 31, 2015 7:51 pm  

ThePrinter wrote:

The week of the Hudds Cup game

"Challenge cup holders Leeds Rhinos will stick with a winning routine for their “biggest game of the season so far”, chief executive Gary Hetherington has confirmed.

“Last year the team went into camp before every Cup game, that worked and they will be doing the same this season,” Hetherington said ahead of Saturday’s Ladbrokes-sponsored sixth round tie at home to Huddersfield Giants."

The week of the Magic weekend game

"We've not really thought about it up to now," Ablett said.

"We had a big week with the cup and then we needed to back up last Friday, so the Magic Weekend hasn't really been a focus or something we've talked about."


HASN'T really been a FOCUS

And yet Printer, and this is fact, they went into camp before the Wigan game.

Re: For the love of God,Allah or whoever-McDermott GO!!! : Sun May 31, 2015 7:55 pm  

[quote="Him"]Of course it's hypothetical. That was never in doubt. Why did you pretend it ever was? Was it to try and cover up your ridiculous comparison of 2 clubs results against different teams?[/quote

The point was Loiner 81 asked if Huddersfield were an improving side - it was a snide comment following the CC defeat -that Leeds should fear - looking at their recent results I would suggest Huddersfield are improving and they are a side Leeds have struggled to beat in SL in recent years. I was merely pointing out the recent form of both teams.

You then jumped on the bandwagon - and then argued it wasn't hypothetical and now you are suggesting it was - which is it?

Re: For the love of God,Allah or whoever-McDermott GO!!! : Sun May 31, 2015 8:48 pm  

Sal Paradise wrote:

The point was Loiner 81 asked if Huddersfield were an improving side - it was a snide comment following the CC defeat -that Leeds should fear - looking at their recent results I would suggest Huddersfield are improving and they are a side Leeds have struggled to beat in SL in recent years. I was merely pointing out the recent form of both teams.

You then jumped on the bandwagon - and then argued it wasn't hypothetical and now you are suggesting it was - which is it?

What on earth are you on about? I've never argued that my prediction of the results of a hypothetical scenario (Leeds playing Hudds instead of Wigan etc) wasn't hypothetical.
Your prediction (that Leeds will fall down the league table) isn't in any way hypothetical. That's a prediction based on a real scenario in a real context.

You then decided to jump in and pretend I was stating fact, for some strange reason. Presumably in an attempt to divert attention away from your ridiculous nonsense of comparing 2 teams based on results vs different clubs.

Re: For the love of God,Allah or whoever-McDermott GO!!! : Sun May 31, 2015 10:18 pm  

Sal Paradise wrote:

The point was Loiner 81 asked if Huddersfield were an improving side - it was a snide comment following the CC defeat -that Leeds should fear - looking at their recent results I would suggest Huddersfield are improving and they are a side Leeds have struggled to beat in SL in recent years. I was merely pointing out the recent form of both teams.

It wasn't snide and was about their recent performances, including the CC. Beating Salford doesn't make them a good side.

Recent form, ie this year with this year's squads is: played 3 with 2 wins to Leeds and a draw.
They were terrible today for the most part and were extremely lucky to get a point against the worst travelling side in SL.

Check their fixture list, they'll be lucky to make the top 8 playing like they did today.

Re: For the love of God,Allah or whoever-McDermott GO!!! : Mon Jun 01, 2015 9:02 am  

ThePrinter wrote:

The week of the Magic weekend game

"We've not really thought about it up to now," Ablett said.

"We had a big week with the cup and then we needed to back up last Friday, so the Magic Weekend hasn't really been a focus or something we've talked about."


HASN'T really been a FOCUS

I doubt this. But even if it is true, why the f00k weren't we focused on it, given it was a golden opportunity to put six points between Wigan and ourselves?