Super League - Round 27 Preview with The Yorkshire Post's James O'Brien - video Dailymotion

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The Yorkshire Post's rugby league writer James O'Brien looks ahead to the final weekend of Super League and games involving Hull KR, Leeds Rhinos, Hull FC, Huddersfield Giants, Castleford Tigers and Wakefield Trinity

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00:00 It's the final round of what's been a very disappointing season from a Yorkshire perspective.

00:09 Hulkiart are alone in flying the flag in the playoffs. They'll play Lee and an eliminator

00:14 next week. All that's left to be decided is who has home advantage in that playoff tie.

00:20 If Hulkiart overturn a 34-point deficit, I think it is on Lee. By beating Waite, it feels

00:26 quite handsomely and Lee losing at home to Wigan, which isn't beyond their own. Obviously

00:31 Wigan top, going for the league leaders this year, they're in very good form. Lee's scratch

00:35 last week against Wakefield. They were lucky to get over the line in the end. They are

00:39 showing some signs of fatigue since the Challenge Cup final. So it's a good opportunity for

00:43 Hulkiart to get home advantage and almost have an extra man in that playoff game in

00:48 the Craven Park crowd. Playing a Wakefield team who have obviously been relegated, a

00:53 real crushing relegation it was as well in Golden Point at Lee. They'll struggle to get

00:57 up from that. They could give the fans a bit of small cheer to go into the long off-season

01:04 with, but it's been a miserable season for Wakefield and I really feel for their fans

01:08 who haven't had a lot to shout about all this season. That brings me on to Leeds and Cass.

01:13 Leeds have been better than Cass and Wakey, but by their high standards still a very,

01:17 very poor season. Even if they beat Cass, it won't do much to cheer up a fan base that

01:22 have become quite disillusioned. Cass have stayed up. Essentially that win over Wakefield

01:30 last month kept them in Super League. It's easy to forget what dark place they were in

01:37 when Danny Ward took over. It's only led them to two wins. I say only two wins, but they

01:41 were massive wins and have kept them up at a time when they did look in a perilous position.

01:50 They did have the momentum when Danny Ward came in, so he's done a good job. He deserves

01:53 that job full-time. We'll see how that plays out. Then you've got Huddersfield. They play

01:59 Warrington. A lot of departing players for Huddersfield. Chris McQueen, Jermaine McGillivray

02:03 of course, who's been there for so many years. They want to end on a high and obviously that

02:08 could mean ending Warrington's playoff hopes if Salford beat Catalan. Then in the other

02:14 game you've got Hull, who are on a hiding to nothing. It looks like at St Helens it's

02:17 hard to see them getting anywhere near an in-form St Helens, especially in the form

02:22 that Hull are in. Another miserable season. Again, for Yorkshire Tight and Hull, they

02:27 had a good winning run in the middle part of the season. They looked good, looked like

02:33 they'd shifted a bit of mental baggage, but they've just reverted to tight and it's hard

02:38 to see them improving next season. They've lost their best three players you'd seen,

02:43 Chris Satai, Jake Clifford and Adam Swift. It could get worse before it gets better for

02:48 a few Yorkshire clubs, but for now we've got Hull KR and hopefully they go well in the

02:52 playoffs.

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Super League - Round 27 Preview with The Yorkshire Post's James O'Brien

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