My thoughts on Clarkson isn't necessarily that his form has dropped rather than our half backs have. He runs some devastating lines and has a good pass. Our problem is that we don't seem to know how to pass to him at the moment, often being slightly too late meaning that he's already in the line before he can gather it.

This.

If our halves were performing then I believe that Clarkson's game would improve. It also might help is the sort pass while he was running at the line wasn't fired at him at 90mph.

I believe the usual suspects are playing for Hunslet tonight, Moore, Watson, Keinhorst, Chisholm and Hood.

Its difficult for him when he gets limited game time, when he has got decent minutes he has performed well. While Ablett and Delaney are out he should getting a decent run.

Third game in 12 days, is that too much in that you are against a Hull FC side at their place who are bang in form.

Regards clarkson,my take on it is he starts and offers you a full on graft for 80 minutes effort or doesnt feature at all.he is not an impact player and is wasted on the bench getting a token 10 minutes unless we are down to the bare bones.i would stick with him in the starting 13 for now.

Mitch Achurch replaces Richard Moore for Hunslet tonight.

they didn't look good against rovers. they were second best.
i was impressed with them at warrington mind

Once they got the confidence in themselves they were impressive. Before that they looked very average.

Still no 19-man squad announced?

Thought it had to be released 48 hours before kickoff?

All the Leeds coaching staff, were watching Hunslet tonight plus G.H. I would think they were having a look at Hood or at least i'd hope so. Hood had a decent game again tonight as did Keinhorst. Watson was solid but Achurch didn't do a right lot IMO.

Squad:

1. Zak Hardaker
3. Kallum Watkins
4. Joel Moon
5. Ryan Hall
6. Danny McGuire
7. Rob Burrow
8. Kylie Leuluai
9. Paul McShane
11. Jamie Jones-Buchanan
13. Kevin Sinfield (c)
15. Brett Delaney
16. Ryan Bailey
17. Ian Kirke
18. Chris Clarkson
19. Mitch Achurch
21. Richard Moore
23.Brad Singleton
25. Joe Vickery
26. Liam Sutcliffe

Achurch + someone else to miss out

Interesting that Achurch is named in the squad having played last night. We are heavy in the pack at the moment. Should see more game time for Sutcliffe and Singleton though

Just win please very heavily if you don't mind cheers

Singleton and Sutcliffe in the squad [iagain[/i - does McDermott not know the meaning of squad rotation??

T!t!

Kirkes struggling with a hamstring, so may be strugling for Friday.

Should be a good game, could go either way depending on how we come into the game.

I reckon our hit-and-miss form will be the decider - if we come out like we did against Wire, it'll be a cracker with Leeds looking to bounce back.

If we're anything like what we were for 70 minutes against KR, it could be a long night for us.

Are you in the insurance industry? You seem to have covered yourself for every outcome there...

If we play like we did against Huddersfield and Saints we'll lose, if we play like we did against Wigan we'll win.

No matter what team Leeds put out its very unlikely that we lose if we good discipline. I know every team concedes penalties but the timing and needless-ness of quite a lot of ours is very disappointing.

With Childs in the middle I'm certain they'll be a period in the game where he'll ping us quite a few times in quick succession. The last time we had him (vs Wire) we were in control but then in the 2nd half he seemed hell bent on making things close.

Saints the other week, comfortably up then we conceded a few penalties and we let the game slip. The ones vs Wigan at the weekend already debated on another thread. Catalans away, we would've strolled that game had we not been so ill-disciplined, it also the reason we only drew with Bradford and Cas edged us at the death at the start of the season.

My boss at work is convinced that its all a big conspiricy theory and that the ref on TV games are told to try and make the game closer by the use of penalties to make the game look better on TV!!!!!

Hull against wire were very good, was impressed with them. Hull against KR were poor.

Agreed. I still think if we play with the pace, intent and skill we did against Wigan it'll be too much for Hull regardless.

hull fc are such an inconsistent side and you just don't know which game they are gonna bring to the field on game day,but when they're good they can beat anyone but when they're bad they are absolutely terrible
i think we might just sneak this game but in a very close encounter