No. The pitch is in good condition.

It looked sandy because they are preparing it so it'll look good in two weeks time.

All in all a good pre season to watch albeit against an under strength Hull team.
I started to type that I thought Myler and our 2 wingers had good games.
But then I could have added our centres and halves and forwards.
All those who played for us today had decent games.
Like others have said we are certainly going to be competitive this season and it might depend how many players we can keep on the field as to us winning something this year.
Anybody know what the attendance was?

TBH Hull were so disjointed it's hard to read too much into it. We'll be lucky to face a side leaving so many gaps and missing that many one on ones during the entire season proper.

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Agreed that we cant read too much into that with a weakend Hull side but the signs are encouraging. Looks like we might have a potent attack on the left and right for the first time in a long time. Are we serious silverware contenders, personally I think we will need a bit of luck in a cup run to be challenging as I think League Leaders and GF are probably out of our reach for this year

as a Hull fan, really hard to get a gauge on where we are at currently. Gale looked good, but we have now lost Connor for 5-6 weeks so Gale will have more responsbility for the attack.

My concern for the first month is that we have no pack! Satae, Sao, Taylor, Kane Evans, Ma'u, Bowden, Savelio, Cator all missing yesterday and not sure when/if they will be back

That was like us last year... feel your pain. be a very tough start.

Glad Litten's ok, that was a huge hit.
I'll give Hicks a bit of credit for not showing a card to Fus as I suspect a few refs would have, regardless of the challenge being legal.

Unless of course he missed it

I think he was already looking at the Austin/Gale tackle and didnt see the hit on Litten. It was a fair hit in IMO, Litten suffers a whiplash style injury - but he is very lightweight, so hopefully that will encourage him to bulk up a bit as we have high hopes for him

Griffin and Reynolds were sat near me yesterday, along with most of your pack hope they are back for you soon. No team can cope without all those front line forwards missing.

Yeah, I thought it legal too. FWIW I thought Litten was possibly in two minds over whether to move the ball on. If so, that moment of hesitancy was costly as he set himself up almost. Hope he's back in his stride quickly, never enjoyable seeing a young player take one like that.

When do we know if Austin has been cited for the late push on Gale? Fingers crossed we escape without sanction.

Quote ="ArthurClues"When do we know if Austin has been cited for the late push on Gale? Fingers crossed we escape without sanction.'" Nothing on the cases board yet https://www.rugby-league.com/governance ... nary-cases

Quote ="ArthurClues"When do we know if Austin has been cited for the late push on Gale? Fingers crossed we escape without sanction.'" Nothing on the cases board yet https://www.rugby-league.com/governance ... nary-cases

Any news on Mustapha's injury? He had to be helped off at Dewsbury and had an icepack on his knee. He was due for assessment by Leeds this week.

Out for 2-4 weeks
Kear confirmed that Leeds loanee Muizz Mustapha will miss the next two to four weeks with a patellar tendon injury,

Patella injuries can take time to clear up (speaking from personal experience). Glad it's not an ACL or anything as major as that.

Still a PITA for this to happen when Holroyd is out at the same time. We’re into Donno at prop now if we get another injury?

V Hunslet -

Bailey Aldridge
Alfie Edgell
Levi Edwards
Oli Field
Will Gatus
Joe Gibbons
Bayley Gill
Joe Hird
Loui McConnell
Kai Morgan
Danny Salkeld
Max Simpson
Jack Sinfield
Jack Smith
Ethan Spear
Liam Tindall
Mackenzie Turner
Jackson Walker

Interesting to see Loui brought in from fev to get a game

I was going to ask about McConnell. I thought he'd signed permanently for Fev?

He has bur we are loaning players from Fev and Dewsbury to make up a reserve team. Gill, Walker and Loui are 3 loanees.

Thanks Marty. Must have missed that.

I think this was always the plan between Leeds & Fev and comes under the DR umbrella rather than loan. Works for both teams, Leeds get a bit of (relative) experience to help alongside the youngsters and Fev get game time for some fringe players. Loui is probably 3 or 4 injuries away from getting a game for Fev at the moment and Gill has plenty in front of him as well.

It was but i remember seeing postings of listings of reserve teams full of Mylers, Briscoes, Sutcliffes etc lol. Was never gonna happen.

The old A Teams were never full of players who were just outside the first 13 either. They were made up of Colts players, the odd triallist, players returning from injury and a core of older players who were clearly not up to first team but could fill a gap if required. IMO it filled a useful gap for older Colts players to get practice against senior pros. There were always players who bypassed it and went straight from Colts to first team, but that route is getting harder.

My issue with dropping reserve grade was that it wasn't replaced with an organised pathway to the first team. The gap between junior and first grade is probably bigger than ever, and we need to make sure there's a bridge for Academy players. We also need to be able to not just bin anyone who isn't quite first team ready at 18/19 (in Australia very few teenagers debut, most are 20/21).

I'd have had no problem with Dual Reg and loans if it was systematic, which I don't think it really can be without franchising. Instead when you look across the league its been chaos as afar as I can tell.