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Surely a chance for young Corey Johnson if Parcell doesn't play.

Expect us to turn saints over this weekend -

that would be nice, its not out of the question.

Funny kind of feeling for us all at the moment. First two weeks and we're still 3/4 players short of challenging top teams and one good display later we're backing ourselves to beat everyone!

Yep, dizzy highs and crashing lows, welcome to Leeds.

And that's after beating a side which will finish in the bottom four.

It's certainly possible we COULD beat Saints, this is sport after all, but the odds would be against it. If we are going to get close we're going to have to play better than in the previous 3 games so far, especially re. ball control, penalties, execution of skill.

I'm going to be very interested to see how our pack shapes up against probably the best in the league, and especially what happens in the front rows.

Very much looking forward to the first game at home after this one, which isn't too far away now - would be nice to go into that one at least off the back of a credible performance.

I see in the YEP that the club are definitely still on the hunt for another forward, you would imagine at prop, for this season IF the right man becomes available. We get that prop and there is just an outside chance we might do something this year. Otherwise, you'd like to think worst-case scenario we get them in for 2020, with all our younger players another year more developed, and we're just about there with the rebuild.

We won't win Friday. We're nowhere near level of the top 3 or 4 teams at this stage.

Rebuild mode continues.

Sunday's performance was a major step in right direction but Saints aren't Salford.

Walker
Briscoe
Watkins
Hurrell
Handley
Lolohea
Myler
Cuthbertson
Parcell
Singleton
Merrin
Ward
Dwyer
Sutcliffe
Ferres
Peteru
Oledzki
Smith
Newman

I don't expect a win on Friday, saying that I didn't expect a win last Sunday especially in the manner we did. I'll settle for us to be competitive and looking organised in both attack and defence.

I think the Wakefield game will be a belter

Saints needed a last gasp try to squeeze past Wakefield last time out. It's not as if we're playing NSW. You'd be mad not to make them favourites, but on the night it's 17 vs 17 and we certainly [ican[/i win.

Sutcliffe returns, ward back to the middle.

Does that mean Merrin back to prop?

He's in the 19 doesn't mean he will play.

Hoepfully Furner sees we are a miles better side with Merrin playing loose.

I hope we go with

Walker
Briscoe
Watkins
Hurrell
Handley
Lolohea
Myler
Cuthbertson
Dwyer
Peteru
Ferres
Ward
Merrin

Subs

Parcell
Singleton
Sutcliffe
Oldezki

If Parcell or Oledzki isn't fit Smith on bench.

Press conference today suggested Sutty will return with Ward "back in the middle." I hope not!

Do you know what, at this stage of the rebuild and of the season, we need to have a good look at Sutcliffe at second row. He is a current England Knights player and does have some ability.
My personal view is that his defence is too poor and he has too many errors in his game, and I don't want his presence to stop other talented lads having their chance. But the club needs to be sure before making a call on his future, in what is a new position for him.

What I don't like is the balance of the pack with Merrin up front, to accommodate Sutcliffe, given that Ferres and Ward are good enough to start in the back row too.

Agreed.

But it is up to him to prove himself. Last week when he was out, the team improved and the players in earned the shirt. Tough on Sutcliffe. Now he should have to build to get back, not given the opportunity again to have a good look at him.

He is not and never will be a back row forward

I tend to agree. I reckon the gap between his skill set and those of a high quality 2nd rower are wider than for any other position which he's been tried in so far.

My problem with it is less about sutcliffe and more about merrin at prop.

He's been given chance after chance in 3 or 4 positions and not secured 1 as his own. I reckon he's got some very compromising photos of somebody.

Just thinking back to the 2015 game away at Saints when Sutcliffe looked a brilliant smart player. Thought he'd become a really important player after that.