Go back, sit in the corner and put your hat on!

i think maggs at first receiver works much better, as imo maggs passing games is miles infront of burrow's.

you support Catalans so whats it to you what Leeds do?

With Kirke filling in as the missing fifth prop option at Leeds this season there could be an opening (sometime) for Diskin in the second row but like you I'm not convinced he'd take to it. About the equivalent of Simon Worrall in that position.

I wouldn't like to be in the coach's shoes right now trying to find a suitable role for Diskin to play.

no, i work for Catalans, there is a difference!

now, where is your hat?

Whats your excuse for bumming the convicts at cricket?

they play cricket in the right way and not bringing in other countries cast-offs!

please do not change the thread, stick to the points laid out in the first post please!

TIA

Allens a far better 13 or second row than Diskin.

I agree with you opening post, despite thinking you are joking. Burrow on bench for me, with Diskin out of squad.

Think you have answered your own question there.Whilst ever the 80 minute NRL hooker spends more time off the pitch than on there will always be a place in the starting 17.

not all my posts are take the p!55 you know!

Certainly glad Diskin was there to cover on the bench last night.

Up to his bicep injury at Newcastle last season Buderus merited the 'eighty minute NRL' tag I've given him but it's perfectly fair to question that tag in SL thus far.

I hope Diskin isn't included on the bench as they expect Buderus to break down though.

Why have you got England Rugby Leagues crest in your Avitar?

because they have the best coach in superleague,

now please stick to the thread topic!

I'd consider letting him go if the deal was right and pull all the stops out and go for young myler before saints get there grubby mits in him.

Agree with this. Also an advocate of Sinfield at 6. Leeds looked much better on attack again with him there. Must admit Smithy looked pretty good at centre too. Donald is still a worry on right. Hall surely has the confidence now to be switched wings. ?

Taking Sinfield out of the pack allows us to put a grafter (Ablett) in at 13, which takes abit of weight off the back row IMO (not to say that Sinfield doesn't put in his fair share). I think that having a half-back on the bench instead of a hooker, and moving sinny to 6 might be worth another look over the course of the season. Especially as Burrow can jump in at dummy-half if need be.

as much as i like that, do we not have buderus and diskin there?

We do, but I'd like to see Buderus get more game time, seen as he's been our best player over that last month IMO. burrow would cover dummy half is Bedsy got injured, but one of the half-backs would come on for say Ablett, with Sinny moving to 13, once abit of the sting had gone out of the game. I think it's worth a look if nothing more.

wonder where all the sinny is not a stand off brigade have gone

have said for years that sinny is the best option at 6, its little surprise that in big games he's been moved there quite often, its little surprise that the few games we've looked good (and actually bossed the game)this year sinny has been at 6. the only real debate is who is the better scrum half danny or rob

Lots of sense in this thread.

Actually think we look better when we start with the back row grafters, Ablett and Kirke.

Good to see that people are seeing the Buderus quality.

Not having Burrow in the team means that we aren't messing around shuffling the defensive formation and we aren't giving the oposition an easy target to run at.

Big fan of Burrow - match winner - but it feels like we've turned the clock back 5 years and we can't play McGuire and Burrow in the same starting line up!

Perhaps using Diskin more outwide as a 2nd Centre down one side, not playing a traditional role but helping create more gaps out wide for run arounds with say him, Senior & Hall would confuse defenders. It would just add another dimension in attack and also help with dumy half distribution out wide as he would still be utilised as act in half down that channel. In defence he would be on the inside of Senior playing a similar defensive role as he does now. Not sure quite how this would work but it's a thought.

Mate not sure about that one at all!? You been drinking as much as me tonight?

Saints have a better prospect in Wheeler at either 6/7 they don't need Myler and neither do we.

For me I would like to see - in an easier game - a Webb/McGuire half back combination with Smith at FB and Senior on the right with Donald

The problem for both Burrow and McGuire when Sinfield plays is he dominates the play so neither has the opportunity to control play - as I said before Sinfield is too slow both physically and mentally to play the playmaker - but sadly he will be in that position until he retires.

This is all in your head David. It does not happen. Are problems are when we allow Burrow to control, he is not up to been the general. When Sinfield does not play the team catipulates, proven each time Sinfield has missed a game.