Well it might have been if he wasn't injured!

So Hardaker 6 and BJB fullback with Minns on the wing?

Who cares? It's Widnes, have the chubby warriors on here could run our and we'd get the 2 points.

The education system has done you a disservice.

Hmmmm.....more played out of position. Sounds like the way to go



Nope team for me would be:

Hardaker
Jones-Bishop
Keinhorst
Moon
Hall
Sutcliffe
Burrow
Kirke (literally because there is no one else)
McShane
Peacock
Clarkson
Achurch
Jones-Buchanan

Singleton
Moore
Baldwinson
Minns

It's a pity Liam Hood is apparently injured.

Baldwinson in the 19:

1. Zak Hardaker
2. Ben Jones-Bishop
4. Joel Moon
5. Ryan Hall
7. Rob Burrow
8. Kylie Leuluai
9. Paul McShane
10. Jamie Peacock
11. Jamie Jones-Buchanan
13. Kevin Sinfield (c)
17. Ian Kirke
18. Chris Clarkson
19. Mitch Achurch
21. Richard Moore
22. Jimmy Keinhorst
23.Brad Singleton
26. Liam Sutcliffe
27. Thomas Minns
28. Jordan Baldwinson

both Baldwinson and Minns played in the u19s game today
although Baldwinson played only the first 20 minutes as far as I could tell

Players backing up

Half a dozen starters out injured

This game has banana skin written all over it. Games like this are imperative to win if leeds are to attain a decent league placing, can't do it from 5th every year.

Due to our current injury crisis i am now looking forward to Monday's game more so than i would have been had we had a fully fit squad to choose from

Sometimes adversity can have a positive effect on a club, I hope that during our current injury situation we can give opportunities to our top academy players as it may take such an injury situation like ours at present to be able to realize that these players are good enough to move our club forward when our more senior players retire

If players like Baldwinson and Tonks etc don't get a shot when these opportunities arise then it wont be long before we lose them to SL clubs that will, or in the case of another promising academy player we let go last year in Dan Smith they will go overseas to Australia

@leedsrhinos: Kevin Sinfield will have until matchday before decision on if he'll play v Widnes, number of U19s given ltd game time today in case needed

From the club website:



Perhaps they know Sinfield won't be playing?

G1


Take your boots up lad, think tomorrow night is your time

For me, the fact that we have so many out is making me feel more interested in this game than if it was any other game against Widnes (no disrespect meant). I think it'll be a competitive one that we could lose and ill be interested to see how the younger guys go.

Jordan will make his debut tomorrow.

Same here. And it's a good mid-season rest for Sir Kev, leaving him fresh for the play-offs and the World Cup.

So it's a good mid season rest when a player is injured and enforced absence? But when a planned rest is suggested and the coach criticised for not doing, the coach is right and we need momentum?

What a total hypocrite.

That's good news Seth, I can't wait to see how he handles the step up to first team level as ideally it would have been better him being introduced into a more settled side but sadly that's not the case, But I'm sure he'll do well

So, Sutcliffe should now get a good run of games in his usual position of Stand off.Sinfield is almost never injured and us having both half backs out at the same time is something we have rarely had to contend with of late.What an opportunity the young lad now has ,that has not presented itself to other youngsters in recent years in that position.Could be fate. Look forward to seeing him take the chance with both hands.

The nerve of it. Totally agree with Gotcha...you're a bluddy hypocrite.

Changes when [u[iforced [/i[/uto is not a good thing. No doubt when these young guns come good you'll be one of the first to jump on the 'well done McDermott bandwaggon' for introducing them at the right time. Sheesh.

Agreed

Again agree with this. Really looking forward to seeing how some of the youngsters do. Will be a close game I imagine

Errm... wtf are you on about? Fit players are best on the pitch, at the coach's discretion. If they're injured then it might as well be seen as a well-earned break because, of course, [ithey can't be on the pitch[/i.

More generally, your criticism of the coach only works in this context if the injuries were wear and tear related. Unfortunately for you, every single one of the ten or so injuries are impact related and therefore not attributable to the coaching.

Is Sir Kev capable of peaking twice for two competitions in such a short period of time?

He managed to be world class for the first three months of the season.