Jump to content

Sat 16th Jul: SL: Toulouse Olympique v Leeds Rhinos KO 19:00 (UK Time)

John Drake

Who will win?  

54 members have voted

  1. 1. Who will win?

    • Toulouse Olympique
      34
    • Leeds Rhinos
      20

This poll is closed to new votes

  • Please sign in or register to vote in this poll.
  • Poll closed on 16/07/22 at 16:30

Recommended Posts

Chris22

Chris22

Posted
Posted

Toulouse have one home match from their last 6, so suspect they may need both wins against Salford and Hull FC in back to back home matches.

Saints play Wigan, Wakefield and Toulouse in 9 days to finish the season. Woolf has openly said he doesn't care about topping the league. I expect he'll field a reserve side against Toulouse in the final round and a full side against Wakefield, which could be hugely consequential.


  • Replies 150
  • Created
  • Last Reply
yipyee

yipyee

Posted
Posted
14 hours ago, UBranger said:

Wow , just seen the result. Go on TO. Hope they stay up. Sport entertainment indeed. Love Wakey too tho so 14 team S.L. for me.

Was you saying that when London went down, or Toronto??

redjonn

redjonn

Posted
Posted
4 hours ago, M j M said:

When this loss was clearly foreseen from the moment Leeds announced their squad - just read this thread from the start - why are people still surprised by it?

The Leeds performance was ok and the team did a few nice things but were always going to be up against it and so it proved.

yep,  their were a lot of youngsters whom seemed to do OK but still a hit to any top 6 hopes.

Although I think Leeds wiped out a focus on top 6 with letting Walker go on loan. They will always be injuries and suspensions to cope with and not having Walker as a option could have made a difference.  Not because Walker is some sort of super player but it left Leeds more exposed as this result showed.  The decision to let him go on loan said to me lack of real believe they would make top 6 - otherwise why deplete options.

 

GUBRATS

GUBRATS

Posted
Posted

It will be a shame if Wakey end up getting relegated because too many other teams send deliberately understrength teams to Toulouse ?

Davo5

Davo5

Posted
Posted
1 minute ago, GUBRATS said:

It will be a shame if Wakey end up getting relegated because too many other teams send deliberately understrength teams to Toulouse ?

Yeah because Toulouse are the only team in Superleague to play against an under strength opponent,apparently.

GUBRATS

GUBRATS

Posted
Posted
1 minute ago, Davo5 said:

Yeah because Toulouse are the only team in Superleague to play against an under strength opponent,apparently.

I said ' deliberately ' 

I have no dog in the fight , for the good of the game I'd like Toulouse to prove that P and R can work , but also logically if Leigh did manage to get promoted , I'd rather us go up against Wakey than Toulouse ( especially if some coaches see them as a ' loss leader ) in a fight to stay in SL 

Its the integrity of the competition I'm suggesting here , if you cannot see that , fair enough 

The Daddy

The Daddy

Posted
Posted
11 minutes ago, GUBRATS said:

It will be a shame if Wakey end up getting relegated because too many other teams send deliberately understrength teams to Toulouse ?

Absolute nonsense 

Davo5

Davo5

Posted
Posted
1 hour ago, GUBRATS said:

I said ' deliberately ' 

I have no dog in the fight , for the good of the game I'd like Toulouse to prove that P and R can work , but also logically if Leigh did manage to get promoted , I'd rather us go up against Wakey than Toulouse ( especially if some coaches see them as a ' loss leader ) in a fight to stay in SL 

Its the integrity of the competition I'm suggesting here , if you cannot see that , fair enough 

So you know for definite that clubs only “deliberately”field under strength teams against Toulouse then.

GUBRATS

GUBRATS

Posted
Posted
2 minutes ago, Davo5 said:

So you know for definite that clubs only “deliberately”field underneath teams against Toulouse then.

Did you read the posts just above mine , where 2 separate poster intimated exactly that ? 

M j M

M j M

Posted
Posted
1 hour ago, redjonn said:

yep,  their were a lot of youngsters whom seemed to do OK but still a hit to any top 6 hopes.

Although I think Leeds wiped out a focus on top 6 with letting Walker go on loan. They will always be injuries and suspensions to cope with and not having Walker as a option could have made a difference.  Not because Walker is some sort of super player but it left Leeds more exposed as this result showed.  The decision to let him go on loan said to me lack of real believe they would make top 6 - otherwise why deplete options.

 

But the intent of letting Walker go was to free up salary cap to strengthen in other areas this year. Things have gone quiet on that front but they clearly want to make the 6 this year.

GUBRATS

GUBRATS

Posted
Posted
15 minutes ago, GeordieSaint said:

Credible sources then. 

Its an internet message board , where people express opinions 

Dunbar

Dunbar

Posted
Posted
1 hour ago, GUBRATS said:

It will be a shame if Wakey end up getting relegated because too many other teams send deliberately understrength teams to Toulouse ?

Were Wakey one of the teams that deliberately sent an understrength team to Toulouse because that would be one hell of an own goal?

"The history of the world is the history of the triumph of the heartless over the mindless." — Sir Humphrey Appleby.

"If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn't value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?" — Sam Harris

GUBRATS

GUBRATS

Posted
Posted
3 minutes ago, Dunbar said:

Were Wakey one of the teams that deliberately sent an understrength team to Toulouse because that would be one hell of an own goal?

No idea , I was referencing Leeds and potentially Saints in their last game , as that is what was being intimated 

Dunbar

Dunbar

Posted
Posted
1 minute ago, GUBRATS said:

No idea , I was referencing Leeds and potentially Saints in their last game , as that is what was being intimated 

Sorry, didn't realise you were commenting on something that hasn't happened yet.

Let's catch up then shall we.

"The history of the world is the history of the triumph of the heartless over the mindless." — Sir Humphrey Appleby.

"If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn't value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?" — Sam Harris

GUBRATS

GUBRATS

Posted
Posted
4 minutes ago, Dunbar said:

Sorry, didn't realise you were commenting on something that hasn't happened yet.

Let's catch up then shall we.

One has , Leeds , one hasn't Saints , that's why I didn't state it as a fact 

Dunbar

Dunbar

Posted
Posted
4 minutes ago, GUBRATS said:

One has , Leeds , one hasn't Saints , that's why I didn't state it as a fact 

So your "too many other teams send deliberately understrength teams to Toulouse" currently stands at....

One.

"The history of the world is the history of the triumph of the heartless over the mindless." — Sir Humphrey Appleby.

"If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn't value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?" — Sam Harris

bobbruce

bobbruce

Posted
Posted
9 hours ago, Harry Stottle said:

Yes but Leeds had won 4 of their last 6 games, losing out to both inform Giants and Saints away and putting 96 points on the scoreboard in their last two games, now considering you are the 'stats man' of this site I would say that is a bIt of form before going to the bottom placed club, I thought you could well have picked up on that.

Probably shows how difficult it is to play after that sort of travel. Makes what Toulouse and Catalan are doing even more impressive. 

yipyee

yipyee

Posted
Posted
2 hours ago, GUBRATS said:

I said ' deliberately ' 

I have no dog in the fight , for the good of the game I'd like Toulouse to prove that P and R can work , but also logically if Leigh did manage to get promoted , I'd rather us go up against Wakey than Toulouse ( especially if some coaches see them as a ' loss leader ) in a fight to stay in SL 

Its the integrity of the competition I'm suggesting here , if you cannot see that , fair enough 

Saints sent their first team twice where as they sent the kids to Castleford.

Wigan sent their first team and were lucky to win.

Wakefield put out their first team at magic....

M j M

M j M

Posted
Posted
2 hours ago, Dunbar said:

So your "too many other teams send deliberately understrength teams to Toulouse" currently stands at....

One.

None. Leeds sent a full strength team from the players available. St Helens normally mess around with this sort of stuff but Leeds did not.

GUBRATS

GUBRATS

Posted
Posted
9 minutes ago, M j M said:

None. Leeds sent a full strength team from the players available. St Helens normally mess around with this sort of stuff but Leeds did not.

You'd hope so , be interesting to see how many recover for next week , who've they got ? 

Just looked , Wigan at home on Thursday 

yipyee

yipyee

Posted
Posted
9 minutes ago, M j M said:

None. Leeds sent a full strength team from the players available. St Helens normally mess around with this sort of stuff but Leeds did not.

Nope sent full strength and got beat.

Sent a kids side to Cas and were in the game for 65 mins, infact if Martyn was an once of the player his dad was they would have been leading with 15 to go

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

Go to topic listing

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.


×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue.