I thought Achurch had a good game against Wigan.

Stevie ward will become a quality player, he needs time to develop and a bit of luck on the injury front, he's still only 20, so it's far too early to be writing him off.

For me achurch was a positive last night, has a lot of talent and potential, hopefully he'll get a injury free run to show everyone what he can do.

I'd go with

Hardaker
Briscoe
Watkins
Keinhorst
Hall
Sinfield
McGuire
Bailey
Aiton
Singleton
Ablett
Jjb
Achurch
Subs
Burrow, Kylie, s.ward, sutcliffe

Be interesting to see the odds for this.i may be ready to lump a real wedge on our fishy friends, like buying money!

Ever the optimist



Actually I thought Keinhorst did okay too.

And I agree with all that has been said about Achurch.....let's not forget he was actually beginning to look the part before his most recent injury.

Achurch was never looking the part the guy can't defend for a start plus for a supposed wide runner we very rarley see him create much . Maybe we should have re signed Ali .

Create much? Compared to who, exactly?

Phil Cookson , Ali , even Andy *****N Hay

Sinfield made one almost on the hooter ..... I know I couldn't believe my eyes either.

Luke Briscoe OOC at end of season, no announcement of a new one neither.

Jimmy Keinhorst I can see going to Wakefield.

Alex Foster has been a stand out for London this year, I think he will carry on at Leeds next season.

Netx week is a complete dead rubber, for both teams, so I'd expect Leeds to rest as many big guns as possible in preperation for the playoffs.

In true Mcdermott enigma style though, he'll probably play all the big guns, some of whom may not be 100%.

Delaney's name will already be crayoned in.

Can't remember the last time delaney played and he didn't look like he was on one leg.

But he always puts up his hand to play and McDermott respects that more than anything - apart from Peacock's insistence in defiantlly staying on the field even when blowing out of his arris.

not sure he will. Mcdermott said at the start of the season that he learned lessons from lay season, and the squad has been better rotated this season, though sometimes to the detriment of the late position

Pointless game against Hull.

May as well play the fringes, re-group, have one last big push in the playoffs.

Thought we wanted to go into this game with some sort of momentum?
Either way I suppose the coach is going to cop sopme flak.
I would rest the likes of Sinfield, JP, Aiton and Delaney and possibly Watkins who is either playing with an injury or can`t be ar$ed.

Momentum vs fatigue is a good angle. We have no momentum, so a morale boosting win against Hull, with a few tries could be what the doctor ordered. Or we could lose a couple injured and mess oursleves up. Who knows?

A win over Hull FC isn't big news, so cant see morale being boosted much either way.

Leeds in a way have a week off, their Playoff Plan starts now.

We got battered away to Hudds on the last day of 2012 when we had a pretty much as full strength team as we had available to us at the time, and we confidently beat Wigan on the last day of 2013 so I don't really buy the need for momentum.....we didn't have it going into the CC semi and Final.

Simple, if anyone is carrying an issue don't play them. Can't see Burrow or McGuire being brought back in. If we rest a load of starters and lose, the club will only be accused of short changing the fans who travelled to "watch that s**t"

As long as the club state the position - fans can then make their own mind up as to what to do.

Well they did name the 19 for London with all those key names missing.....obviously the problem with that one is that people plan and book for that away game well in advance. Friday night in Hull isn't exactly the same as a weekend away in London.

People should be able to tell on Wednesday whether they think the line-up will be worth travelling to see.

I hope they give Lilley a go this week. Playing really well in under 19's, and for me a better long term option than Sutcliffe.

But I guess play offs for under 19's start on Saturday also, and they may actually not want to play those players in first team Friday night.

True, I'd forgotten about that last point. Should then in the circumstances not expect to see the likes of Walters, Mulhern, R.Ward, Handley etc. to be named for the first team.

whilst its a consideration the needs of the first team come first. if people are needed so we can rest our crown jewels then sending a weakened u19 team out isnt really an issue. At this tine of the year we are all about getting our hands on the SL trophy. Little else matters

We are sure, but potentially some of those players might be the only chances they get also. I don't know which way the club would think.