Leeds to win for me, Catalan are poor away from home and the building for the semi-final starts here.
Only hope in terms of team selection is that Sutcliffe gets a good stint and Aiton plays the whole game!

Leeds win. We'll all be really hungover. Its my birthday party on Saturday you see

It's nice to have selection dilemnas again.

With JJB back we have JJB, Ablett & Delaney in the back row, but we also need to find places for Sutcliffe, Stevie Ward & Walters. They can't go into the halves now McGuire's back, and with Aiton returning how do we make space for Robbie Ward?

Plus Singleton, Yates, Luke Briscoe, Mulhern, Minchella, Foster, Minns & Duckworth to find places for.

We cant play them all. Unfortunately you can only field 13 players. So someone will have to tell afew of them they won't be playing. Unfortunate but that's the way the cookie cumbles. Always ends in tears.

With all players back fit its hard to see any of these bar Singleton and maybe Yates getting much of a look in and that goes for R.Ward and Walters too.

regards R.Ward and Walters, its great for them to have got a few games and a taste of being in the first team enviroment.They have proved they can handle the step up too and have plenty of scope for improvment.I can see both spending a season on loan at another SL club next season and being a bigger part of the first team squad come 2016.

Catalan will be a tough game for us.They are on the up right now and in good form of late, pushing hard for a play off place.

I reckon we will go with
Bjb
Hall
Moon
Watkins
Briscoe
Sinfield
McGuire
Leuluai
R.Ward
JP
Ablett
Delaney
Sutcliffe

Singleton
Aiton
Jjb
Bailey/Kirke

JJB Is out again. Yet another injury. Walking sick note.

One thing highlighted this year is how many times BJB has had to play, and the need for competition anyway. He is gone next year, someone will have to replace him. Surely we should be looking at that someone sooner than later? to see how he goes (assuming it is from within).

whats he out with?

Really looking forward to this Game!
I enjoy Sunday afternoon games better to be honest.

Question: Would you prefer our home games to be Friday night or Sunday afternoon?

Calf/knee injury, couple of weeks out.

Friday night. Easily. Friday SL is a great start to the weekend; plus there is still a whole 2 extra days of weekend left after it.

This.

Sundays are bloody awful. Even for away games not so great. Home, miles better Friday nights.

JJB's mind is obviously willing but his body is saying something else.

Yeah, but at least the ones who miss out still have your birthday party to look forward to. Not all doom and gloom.

Definitely Friday night for me as well.
RE-Jjb hopefully it isn't too serious but surely given his I jury record/age etc he should at least play one game for Hunslet before he steps back into SL?

Aiton's only just returned from a long absence, be bloody daft to play him the full 80.

McDermott tipped Achurch to be available this week so the bench back-row spot looks a bit congested between Sutcliffe, S.Ward, Walters, Clarkson.

EDIT - Clarkson has a slight Achilles problem ATM so he won't be in the 17 (doubt he would've been anyway even if fit)


BJB
Briscoe
Watkins
Moon
Hall
Sinfield
McGuire
Leuluai
R.Ward
Peacock
Ablett
Achurch
Delaney

Aiton
Bailey
Singleton
Sutcliffe/S.Ward

If JJB played a game for Hunslet first, he would get injured in it!

So long as he is fit enough to do the photoshoots for the new kits each year, that's all that matters. It is what he is paid for after all; the amount of sales from the never-ending publicity and discussion from here alone before the start of this season was enough to pay his wages until 2015!

Hehe

Is there going to be cake at this birthday party or what?

As a proper journalist should, Wheels asks the pertinent questions.

We should be given an answer.

You never heard of birthday cake ?

Costco birthday cakes are the king of cakes, so much cake that you almost can't eat a whole one without being sick, but I had a damn good go at it.

What I enjoyed best about Costco birthday cakes was that they'd always make one or two for anyone who just walked by and thought "I fancy a paving slab sized block of random unbranded cake for tea tonight", but most of the cakes on the stand were custom made for other people, people who's birthday it was, they'd be specially iced to your own design with "Happy Birthday Uncle Peter" on, if it was your Uncle Peters birthday for example.

Well I used to like to buy THOSE cakes, the ones that had been specially done to order for someone else, you never had to prove that it was YOUR Uncle Peter or even that you had an Uncle Peter (I don't), and everyone would smile at the checkout and say "Hope your Uncle Peter enjoys his birthday cake" and you'd smile back and think "I haven't got a f'kin Uncle Peter you daft bint" but you'd say "I'm sure I will, erm I mean I'm sure HE will" and then sometime later the real people who really had an Uncle Peter who's birthday it was that day would turn up at the bakery counter and demand their cake and the baker would scratch his head and say "But I made it this morning, it was right there..." and the people would kick off big time but ultimately have to take home a cake for a little girls birthday that was going spare, poor Uncle Peter.

Guys. There's cake. Its a Jake and the Neverland pirates cake too.

Only reason he couldn't play is because he had 'illegal' substances in his body to fight his illness, hopefully he trained hard. Shouldn't have taken too much of a dip in fitness

I used to love Friday night games 10 minute walk after the game to the west end 3 or 4 pints then home.i miss Wilson's pies too.i was coming home for. This , but the bike race put me off.Leeds are due a good performance .

www.therhinos.co.uk/news/23305.php JP, Kylie and Achurch back. JJB injured and most importantly of all - judging by comments here - Kirke is injured!

www.therhinos.co.uk/news/23305.php JP, Kylie and Achurch back. JJB injured and most importantly of all - judging by comments here - Kirke is injured!