Giants v Tigers - R27

Matt

Well the end is here. I can't see us winning, Huddersfield have improved quite a bit over the last few weeks and we've clearly decided that the season is over.

All comes down to Hull and Bradford. If both of them win we pick up the spoon.

Hepworth

Reality v Truth this one, Reality is we have enough in our squad to beat Huddersfield,Truth is majority of them can’t be arsed. Another defeat sadly.

Maturecasfan

Can’t see hull fc beating Leeds at headingley.
Leeds won’t want to go into the play off’s with 2 loses.

York and bradford is hard to pick. I’ll say York seeing they are at home and coming off a good win at Catalans.
When all said and done bradford was only playing us.

So I’m going
Bradford bottom
Then hull fc
Us.
Depressing hey.

RaoulDuke

Leeds to beat Hull. Bradford to beat York. That keeps us off the bottom.

Which isn't good enough. If we win we hold position or go up one.

Got to win it.

Hepworth

Brad Arthur repeated in his interview he was always going to go into the Hull game with the best available 13,I’m sure anyone who’s 50:50 might get a rest but enough to beat Hull. York look superior to Bradford who picked up another couple of knocks,so York for me, Bit peed off our game has been moved to Saturday,have always made a point of going to the last game of the season…..not this time SKY.

Hepworth

Arthur true to his word and named a full strength squad for the Hull game.

Maturecasfan

He won’t want to go into the play off’s on 2 defeats.

RaoulDuke

Miller out for the season for Leeds

Matt

Well some good news, we can no longer finish bottom of SL!

Hepworth

Matt Enjoyable game that,plenty of effort and no little skill from both sides.

stuey

So Bradford finish bottom after fiddling IMG scoring to get into SL, yet one of Toulouse or York will probably get kicked out to be replaced by London. Both Toulouse and York have better grounds, and have put in better performances.
Hull 2nd bottom will probably also remain in SL.

RaoulDuke

Great we can't come bottom. Think 12th will be our spot unless we can play a real game Saturday

Hepworth

I’ll be fascinated to see the IMG gradings when they come out,the only known score at the moment is the performance figure. Add those to the current figures,we would remain above York,Tolouse,move ahead of Bradford,crucially whoever wins Saturdays game would move ahead of the other in the overall gradings. I’m aware this is like doing a jigsaw without the picture but those additional points we achieved by turning up week on week could prove vital.

RaoulDuke

Hepworth it'll be interesting for sure.

York and Toulouse lose points for their grand final and 1895 cup wins they had last year.

Bradford won't improve.

Hudds are hoping for more points for the ground even though they won't get playing there.

The above lose the points for playing in areas of high concentration. We shared it points with wakey and Fev. They didn't share theirs, so we'll be better off.

Home crowds at over 7500 average will put us up aswell.

Hepworth

RaoulDuke In reality our chance of finishing in bottom place in the league have been less than 1% for the last 5 rounds,despite the number of permutations that have been thrown about it has never been remotely likely, but then as people keep telling me strange things happen in sport. What truly disappoints me is that our fate has been in our own hands and the effort from our players has been good enough to grasp the opportunity.
With regard to IMG even a year on I can’t see how Bradford got that score in the first place and having watched last weeks Cas game I’m even more bemused,the game was played on what looked like a ploughed field illuminated by a 40 watt bulb…..baffling.

Maturecasfan

It’s not what you know, it’s who you know hepworth

yorky

wel having watched the york v bulls game last night york went really well, but i was surprised how poorly lit the field was to say york fc play there. some of the action on the opposite side to the cameras was difficult to see, but great we didnt finish bottom.

RaoulDuke

Hepworth can't get the bulls figures either. Not win anything or finished at the top of the championship but get nearly 15 points. It shows it's weighted wrongly.

stuey

If the above figures are not changed at the end of the season, it would appear that London will not be in SL next season, so no change.

Matt

Leeds not doing us any favours this evening 🙄