Garbutt expected to return this week. McGuire still a doubt but we haven't really missed him in recent weeks with Lilley playing well. Expect:

Sutcliffe
Briscoe Watkins Moon Hall
Lilley/McGuire Burrow
Galloway Segeyaro Garbutt
Ablett Ferres
JJB

Cuthbertson Singleton Delaney Keinhorst/Achurch

Except Lilley may be carrying those knocks he sustained vs Wigan

Any news on Moon's injury???

If Moon and Lilley are fit same as last week with Garbutt replacing Achurch.
If Lilley is out I would expect Sutcliffe to SO and Golding to FB.
If Moon is out Keinhorst to LC and Garbutt back in the pack retaining Achurch no doubt.


Just thinking out of the box here.
But maybe Briscoe Tom that is to replace Moon if not fit to play and keep Sutcliffe at FB with Handley on the RW
Keinhorst on the bench and Achurch back at his gym watching the game on Sky.

Fit or not, McGuire can't be selected after the 2 very good wins without him.

He's not playing well and his captaining of the team hasn't looked convincing. stays on the sidelines for me.

If Maggsy is fit he will play 100%.

We've got Hicks again as the referee.

Its a must win.

Win this and Salford lose against Dull (v.likely) and we finish 4th bottom.


(I never thought id be saying that...)

I'd save that line for Middle 8 fixtures

Not exactly must win but would be good to get the 4 home games. Also just to keep our momentum going and after their easy defeat to Hull last week it's a chance to send one of our rivals into the Midfle 8's on shaky form and not a confidence boosting win/performance.

Moon was fine at the children's day and club have confirmed that Lilley given all clear in the changing room.

19 man squad was as predicted above.

I dissagree on that point. Leeds have shown all year that they will struggle to win a must win game, and lets be honest they could be in that million pound game. This Thursday is as near as that, when both teams will be desperate for those four home games, and avoid the embarrassment of possible bottom. A win will give them the confidence they need to show they can win a game when it matters, and for me if they can not get up for Thursday then there would be a problem.

Not exactly what I meant by it's not a must win. Also to even put ourselves in with a chance of 4 home games then the Hull and Wigan games were must wins....and we did, so we have won when we needed to recently.

Lets hope Achurch does not make the 17 with Keinhorst having to drop out.

Whilst Moon might be fit to start surely Keinhorst should be on the bench incase Moon has a reoccurrence.

True.

He's not yet played since Segeyaro joined, his arrival seeing several players perform much better than they did previously thanks to the balance getting sorted.....no reason to think McGuire couldn't do the same as the likes of Hall, Ablett, Watkins, Burrow have done the last few weeks.

Sutty
Briscoe
Watkins
Moon
Hall
Mags
Lilley

Garbutt
Segeyaro
Galloway
Ferres
Ablett
Jjb

Cuthbertson, Singleton,keinhorst , Burrow/Delaney

Team will probably be if everyone is available

Sutcliffe
Briscoe
Watkins
Moon
Hall
Mcguire
Lilley
Galloway
Segeyaro
Garbutt
Ferres
Ablett
JJB

Subs

Burrow
Cuthbertson
Singleton
Keinhorst

Doubt Burrow will be demoted to bench. With Garbutt back then just a question of whether Singleton reverts to loose or JJB starts there again.

We need Lilleys kicking from the start and if placed on the bench he can sub for 6,7 or 9 depending on fitness of mags and Lilley or just giving Segeyaro a rest.

Seems logical, if we have doubt on Moon then keinhorst should be on bench too.

We've only won 2 out of 10 games when McGuire has played. That's a pretty horrible stat for the captain and supposedly our one indispensable halfback.

We seem to play better with Lilly in attack as we need an organiser, Mags and Burrow imo have shown this season that they cannot fill that roll, therefore they should be fighting between themselves for that other halves position, with th other likely coming from the bench to freshen up Segyaro

Keinhorst should be in the team on merit

You know that only tells half a story. I recall a few people said Handley should keep Hall's wing spot and Hall be made to bide his time......anybody still wishing we'd left Hall on the sidelines waiting vs Hull and Wigan? Made Ablett wait after he created that try for Cuthbertson on Friday?

The big difference is getting players back and segeyaro. Those wins in the last two weeks, dare I say, probably wouldn't have happened if we didn't have segeyaro. He's had such an impact. Lilley was awful against hull, probably one of his poorest games this year. Which is absolutely fine because he's so young and we should give him time to make mistakes. But to say the team were losing when McGuire was playing so he shouldn't get back in the squad ahead of lilley is ridiculous. McGuire also will benefit from playing in a team with segeyaro, moon, Ablett, Briscoe and hall back and back playing well.