People keep saying the dual reg players can play but last year they couldn't which didn't help Hunslet one bit. I presume we have loaned 3 players because Golding, Lilley and Mullalley will be staying with Leeds. Does anyone know if the rule has changed from last year???

It has changed.

Whether you can play on DR during the Qualifiers is now down to how many games you played on DR during the season. That dictates whether you can play for one or both clubs in the Qualifiers.

If you've played less than 3 games on DR during the season, you can't go out on DR during the Qualifiers.

If you've played between 3 and 7, you can go on DR but once you do you can no longer play for your parent club in the Qualifiers.

If you've played 8 or more games on DR during the season, you can continue to swap between your parent club and your DR club.

I'd be surprised if Leeds let any of Golding, Lilley, Handley or Mullally go out on DR as they'll be needed as cover should they pick up any injuries during the next 7 games.

Thanks for that Andy.

Let's hope the players at least get the right day or it could get messy

Absolute worst case scenario, Fev out of blocks and go full pelt for 10 minutes and maybe score early try.

Fitness tells.

Likely outcome Leeds by 50+

You're still doing it........

Yes my bad, Saturday! Thanks for reminding me

Wish it was a sunday afternoon.
I do not think we should be getting ahead of ourselves here with the scoreline.
Yes we should be thumping them by 50 but yet again we should have been in the top 8`s and look what happened there.
Fev will be up for it that`s for sure especially Baldwinson who will be doing everything to prove a point.
Fitness wise we will be better now we have Kirkstall back


It will be their cup final and if they get hammered in every other game but give us our ar$e kicked they will be very happy.
We should not under estimate our task on Saturday even though on paper we should win comfortably.
But like I have said before on paper we should be top 6 at least.

Hopefully there are enough Leeds players in Feth team that if we are struggling they can throw the game

Leeds by 40+

One area Leeds have struggled with all season, even against the lower sides in SL, is scoring points.

Not sure why anyone is confidently predicting they'll suddenly rediscover their attacking form and post 50 given they've not got past 34 in a competitive game in 2016?

Yep

Because it's not a SL defence we are facing nor a full time team.

Despite our struggles this year only Warrington have made more metres so we're getting down the field ok to have plenty of chances and with all due respect to Fev they obviously aren't of a fitness/drilled level of SL teams so the difference will tell. The speed of the game won't be what they're use to especially against a team who like to keep the ball alive and offload and can see the last 20 mins being a real struggle for them.

If we can score 4 tries away to the League Leaders of Hull and score 3 against the tough to score against Wigan, it's hardly a stretch to think the try total on Saturday won't be around the 7/8 mark.

I'll go 42-12.

Fev will be up for it, off the back of a couple of weeks off, I dont see us blowing them away.

I think around 20 pts, with a couple of those coming towards the end.

Ive never been to Fev. Looking forward to it. Looks like it's shorts weather too.

Leeds by 30.

(bad) Form is temporary.

Class is permanent.

Leeds by plenty

I'll say Leeds by 70. If it comes to pass, I'm a forecasting guru. If it doesn't it's all McDermott's fault.

there was close to 6k against bradford and they brought 2k, and im sure many more will turn out to support us against leeds

sorry as attractive as a game with Leeds is its no cup final. some of us have seen rovers win the cup at wembley more than once, i can assure you a qualifier against leeds is no cup final

That may be the case but I'm sure if you asked the players and the fans who they would most like to beat in the middle 8's. Then I would guess that choice would be Leeds in the absence of Cas that is.
It might not be a cup final in the sense of it as you have probably forgotten what that's like. But rest assured your lot will be more up for the game on Saturday than any other.

Some condescending comments on here - Fev have reached the top 4 due to a late surge in form due to key players returning from injury, especially Briggs and Thackeray who played together for the first time in ages only 4 games ago, so they didn't have to rely on Jordan Lilley, who is a cracking individual player but as yet not a gameplan manager. Fev are playing much better with Briggsy & Thacks. In fact the Rhinos D/R players have done a fine job filling in for injuries but have only been part of the supporting cast, apart from Baldwinson who is a honorary Capper. Unlike Steve Snitch who returned from injury in the last few weeks and has been playing like a world beater. I'm not saying Fev will win but don't put them down, they've had even bigger injury problems and now the key players are back is the reason they stormed into the Top 4, nothing to do with Dual Reg!

Although we do have the best defence in the championship. Better than the full time teams above us, including Leigh.

All the SL team are talking about Leigh being the main threat outside SL, but there's only been 10 point between us this season over two games and we've not played them with a fully fit team.

I expect you to beat us easy in the end but I think we'll give you a game for 60 mins. Despite being part time we are super fit. Our league position is due to us having had a worse injury crisis than you lot this year and ended up playing some games with a second rower at scrum half.

Btw Bradford said they would out number us and despite. Bringing over 2500 fans they were no where near as many of them than Fev fans

Heading towards a sell out we think?

Yes your right but it annoys me when the term cup final is used when ever we play a super league teams its very condescending. especially when its used by cas fans who have never even won the title. I may be living in the past but i still see Rovers as a top flight club iv seen us win the league and the cup at wembley, its worth remembering we were never relegated from the top flight, booted out for the good of the game in 1996, and for what?????. Having said all that i cant wait for saturday