Leeds Rhinos coach Lois Forsell

Leeds Rhinos coach Lois Forsell reflects on her side's final outing before Saturday's Women's Challenge Cup final v St Helens.

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00:00 Decent way to warm up for Wembley?

00:02 We didn't see it as a warm up for Wembley, we knew that we had to be good.

00:06 I think Barrow, potentially, not disappointed but I think I spoke to him after the game and just found it a little bit difficult.

00:13 But we've been really focused on this week as well as next week.

00:16 It's a really difficult place to be as a group of players and staff.

00:20 You've got to look one week ahead rather than two weeks ahead.

00:23 We went well though, we think we're glad with how we performed.

00:27 We're really good to see people like Grace Short making a debut.

00:31 Some girls who have not had as much game time getting some game time.

00:34 It's been a good day all round.

00:36 That reference really was to last year when you lost to Huddersfield.

00:40 You look to be a lot more switched on to today's game than 12 months ago.

00:45 Yeah, I think we probably just maybe made too many changes last year when we played against Huddersfield.

00:50 We made too many changes and we got turned over.

00:53 We wanted to get a result but we also wanted players to be prepped and good to go.

00:57 So, yeah, it's good.

00:58 You got an injury scare with Lucy Murray, how is she?

01:01 She seems alright at the moment but she'll see the doctor today and then she'll be back in next week and we'll go from there.

01:07 So, hopefully all is well but we'll just have to wait and see.

01:09 Amy Hardcastle looked to be struggling with a finger before she went off.

01:13 Is she okay?

01:14 She was just resting wasn't she?

01:16 Yeah, it was just a case of we've got young Beth Mack on the bench.

01:19 It's good to see her back after she actually had a finger injury.

01:23 It was the first time that she's been back in contention so to give her some game time and to rest players like Amy and Hannah,

01:30 the older players within our squad, so to get them off was the wise thing to do, not a forced decision.

01:35 Do you know what your team will be for the Cup final?

01:37 Or are you some decisions still to make?

01:40 You know there or thereabouts but I'm sure that you're aware that we've had players who have been coming through fitness tests

01:47 and it'll be a case of seeing how they go on probably Monday, Tuesday and then make a call from there.