I think Peacock will have actually benefitted in some ways from the enforced rest. As long as the knee has recovered reasonably well I think we should get a guy back who can do the business.
McGuire, I'm not so sure about. It's not his out and out pace that does the damage, it's his willingness to aways be ready to get involved and his mental awareness of the game. His timing and workrate (on and off the ball) was phenomenal. When you aren't fit that's more difficult to maintain.
Fingers crossed though, we could do with a bit of luck.

Totally agree. JP would have benefited for the break. With JP its all about his ability to hit the lines, he knows where to be and where to run - his knee won't stop that.
McGuire is the one who we should be worried about. Like JP he has natural talent stored upstairs but in order to use them he relys on explosive darts of pace and acute reflexes, these might not come back. He is not a Stacey Jones, Matt Orford and to some extent a Briers type player just yet, he is not the little general that the older half backs have to adapt to been in order to carry on playing at the top level - McGuires work is purely step and pace.

Danny McGuire - Total 190 Tries For Leeds:

[code
London/Harlequins 27
Castleford 19
Wigan 17
Catalans 16
St Helens 16
Bradford 15
Wakefield 15
Warrington 13
Huddersfield 11
Salford 10
Hull 9
Widnes 7
Leigh 4
Hull KR 3
Toulouse 2
Canterbury 1
Celtic/Crusaders 2
Manly 1
Melbourne 1
Rochdale 1[/code

Flat-track bully

Yeah that Rochdale defence is a real bitch isn't it...



17 tries against Wigan and 16 against St Helens is impressive.

How many appearances did he make against those teams?

According to the worlds top surgeon you come back faster and stronger after ligament damage.

Cracking!! I might go damage my ligament, then when it's healed I can fight crime.

Agree in principal, dont see Peacock as being a issue, but might be more worried for danny, Hopefully he will be fine and eventually get back to his best. I personally think that even if he loses pace, step etc.. which i dont think will happen, he is a smart enough player to addapt his game and still be a important player for us.

Certainly seems to be the case with Watkins.

Got any directly attiributed quotes to back that up?

Will that do?

Very droll

We should try nearly killing them in a spaceship accident, leaving them men barely alive. Coming back from that type of thing leaves you able to run at 60 miles an hour, have the strength of a bulldozer and supersonic eyesight in one eye.

The only drawback is the cost. Somewhere in the region of £3683241.25, I'm told.

Like it.

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Danny McGuire, Played 208 + 40, Tries 190, Goals 0, D Goals 2, Points 762

[codeSt Helens 25 + 6
Bradford 23 + 5
Wigan 22 + 5
London/Harlequins 17 + 3
Wakefield 17 + 2
Hull 14 + 6
Warrington 15 + 3
Castleford 13 + 1
Catalans 11 + 1
Huddersfield 10 + 2
Salford 10 + 2
Hull KR 10
Celtic/Crusaders 5
Widnes 4 + 1
Leigh 3
Halifax 1 + 2
Melbourne 2
Workington 2
Canterbury 1
Manly 1
Rochdale 1
Toulouse 1
Whitehaven 0 + 1[/code

So back to my original point, he has scored 19 trys in 13+1 appearances against Cas?

Told you, you were a pedant.

Is it pedantry to correct an incorrect statement?



If I were what you claim I am I'd have to point out it's tries not trys ..... but I'm not, so I won't.

Watch your neck though, definitely doesn't work on necks.

Thread titles that sound like TV detectives.

Alright pedant. So he scores 1.45 tries =#FF4040every game. But he did manage to go one without, so actually that ratio is higher.

Duly noted.

I'll design my costume with extra neck support, and stay clear of horse riding.

No he doesn't, how can you score .45 of a try?

And in any case so what if he does score 1.45 on average V Castleford?

The incorrect part of your otherwise correct statement was highlighted in red.

End of, girlfriend.

Just for you tvoc, and only because it's you, I will rephrase it.

McGuire has an amazing try scoring record agains cas, and =#FF4000nearly always scores against them.

And by the way the 1.45 is incorrect as well.

Danny McGuire: Average number of Tries V Castleford

By Appearance - 1.357 (19/14)
By Start - 1.462 (19/13)
Exclude Non Scoring Appearance - 1.583 (19/12)

Now this does feel a little pedantic if I'm being entirely honest.

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That's better but isn't that more or less what you put in the first place.

Oooh a pedantry fest - let me in



Actually the ratio of tries to games doesn't change just because he failed to score in one of them.

For that to work, you would have to change it to the ratio of tries to games [iin which he scores[/i.

That was in 1974. You could by a house for 5 grand and it was 8p a pint for beer (not lager, lager hadn't been invented back then)