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.