Hardaker for Golding? Watkins or Moon for Keinhorst? Cuthbertson or Peacock for Mulhern/Yates?

Assuming all except Briscoe are fit and available I'd go with:

V Wigan
1. Hardaker
2. Handley
3. Watkins
4. Moon
5. Hall
6. Sinfield
7. McGuire
8. Cuthbertson
9. Aiton
10. Peacock
11. Ablett
12. Delaney
13. Ward

14. Burrow
15. Singleton
16. Achurch
17. JJB

Then v Wakey

1. Hardaker
2. Handley
3. Watkins
4. Keinhorst
5. Hall
6. Sutcliffe
7. Burrow
8. Leuluai
9. Ward
10. Singleton
11. Achurch
12. Delaney
13. Ward

14. Aiton
15. Yates
16. Peacock
17. JJB

Assuming everyone except Briscoe is fit:

v Wigan:

1. Hardaker
27. Handley
3. Watkins
4. Moon
5. Hall
13. Sinfield
6. McGuire
17. Cuthbertson
9. Aiton
10. Peacock
16. Achurch
14. Ward S
12. Ablett

7. Burrow
11. Jones-Buchanan
15. Delaney
19. Singleton

v Wakefield:

1. Hardaker
27. Handley
20. Keinhorst
4. Moon
5. Hall
18. Sutcliffe
7. Burrow
8. Leuluai
9. Aiton
19. Singleton
11. Jones-Buchanan
16. Achurch
15. Delaney

21. Walters
22. Yates
24. Ward R
25. Mulhern

Can't you rest some against us? Please?

Meh, just concentrate on Wigan. That'll be a bruising encounter and you don't know who'll come out of it with knocks and injuries.

We should definitely be looking to rest against Wakey, both because we'll be coming off a tough game against Wigan and because we're on a 4-day turnaround to playing Cas, which they'll be hugely up for. If we win against Wigan we'll be 6 points clear of them so dropping points to Wakey is not such a problem, especially given the benefits of game time for those coming back from injuries and rest to key players.

After the Cas match we've got a 10-day turnaround before the pair of games against Hull, and then we've got back-to-back games against Saints and Wigan. Win those and we should be guaranteed to be in the four.

I hope the club don't under estimate Wakefield the way they did London last season.

This. Wigan is always a bruising encounter. They will be more dangerous IMO now they got embarrassed by cat. Let's not get ahead of ourselves get the Wigan game over see who needs a breather. And also there should be some rotation against wakey, but we don't want to take them too lightly either

Exactly, most would say give Peacock a breather against Wakefield.....but what if we wake up on Sunday morning and both Cuthbertson and Singleton have injuries?

Pick your team for Wakefield AFTER the Wigan game.

Surely if we are resting the first name on the list should be Cuthbertson. He is the one flogged to death this year, and an important player to boot.

I don't see the point of resting players against Wakey and coming unstuck. Strong team and secure the two points. Keeps momentum and make good use of interchanges.

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Cuthbertson, Peacock

Same still applies, see what bodies are like on Sunday/Monday and go from there. If Peacock and Singleton pick up knocks vs Wigan and are ruled out of the following week would you feel completely comfortably not selecting Cuthbertson.

Let's just wait and see and concentrate on this one.

I agree on waiting and seeing. And winning on Saturday makes a bigger difference than losing does. But still say Cuthbertson needs resting soon, due to how much he has been asked to do.

Ideally yes if we come through without injuries, think they'll be a few casualties either side though.

Agree Cuthbertson could, ideally, do with a rest. We also don't have to worry about Peacock's longevity after this season.

Talk about taking one game at a time. Let's try and get the win against Wigan first, they'll be smarting but we owe them one after the last two Magic defeats. Then turn our attention to Wakefield with a timely reminder of our away trip to London in 2014.

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Surprised we haven't petitioned Wakefield to shift the game to Friday, same way Cas did with Hull KR and then subsequently the RFL.

Wouldn't rest more than a couple unless there are genuine, knock-carrying reasons for doing so. How can it do anything other than convince those playing it'll be a doddle when half their erstwhile team-mates are given the day off?

This weekends game is massive, beat Wiggin and the only team that can finish above us is Saints IMO. Wiggin have saints and wire and hudds away as well as LEeds at home for starters, we would have to have a major collapse if Wiggin are to finish above us if we beat them this week. Saints have some tough games as well, we have Cas, Hull, Salford, cats and SAints at home and WKey and WIggin away so can see us dropping three more games than WIggin.

Wakefield will be targeting games too.
They have bigger games ahead they need to win. Beating Leeds won't be priority.
A confortable Leeds win whoever takes to the field.
Wakey fans I guess would rather beat Leigh a few weeks later than Leeds

I seem to recall that we rested players last year against the Broncos, another game we couldn't lose & the Broncos were arguably even worse last year than Wakefield are this.
Disrespect the opposition at your peril.

There is of course a difference between resting player, and wholesale changes.

Amen to that.

Factor in that the new Wakefield coaching regime will be wanting something to cling onto and lift morale for the middle 8 games down the line then this could certainly be a little trickier than expected if we rest too many. I don't think we will anyway, yes the likes of Cuthbertson, Peacock and a couple of others if carrying knocks after Magic but thats it.

* Peacock should be rested. We don't want him running out of juice later on in the Season. Mulhern into the 17.
* Cuthbertson should be rested. He is being flogged at the minute. Yates into the 17.
* Singleton & Kylie starting Props.