With players missing hope Furner goes with

Walker
T.Briscoe
Watkins
Newman
Handley
Sutcliffe
Myler
Oldezki
Dwyer
Cuthbertson
Trout
Sutcliffe
Merrin

Subs

Parcell
Singleton
JJB/ Mustapha
Donaldson

Dupree in the 19?


Another opposition could be Lolohea to centre Sutcliffe in halves and Watkins second row Furner used Watkins there against Huddersfield until Hurrell was injured.

Hull kr have signed 32 year old former French International Antoni Maria from Catalans.

Combined Hull Academy is doing wonders for them I see.

At a guess, Ablett, Albert, Briscoe, Crosby, Cuthbertson, Dupree, Ferres, Holroyd, Hurrell, Smith, Ward injured and Peteru suspended.

Welcome to our(HKR) world. For our pack we are down to kids, and it,s showing. It,s getting ridiculous and very frustrating. Unless you have a large squad or get lucky with injuries it,s difficult to compete, and we haven,t got a large squad and have been unlucky with injuries, hence the beatings. Down to one prop against wire and no chance, and lost Garbutt in the warm up and our hooker during the game.
One player retiring due to injury this week, plus some backs missing.
With a relatively fit squad we would give any team a real test, but we don,t.
Whatever your situation, you have got to be favourites.
Our situation is a real problem.
Lets be honest, we are all worried about relegation...fingers crossed we avoid it.

Three young academy forwards in the team against Warrington but they were no match nowhere near ready

How do they get ready without playing tho? It's difficult but its pain that has to be gone through unfortunately.

Given the injuries I had a look at Frosties' squad list. I've no idea how good they are, but as they are a bit older than academy can anyone say why Alex Sutcliffe or Waite-Pullan aren't somewhere around the first team?

Sutcliffe was excellent for Fev against Toronto on the weekend. Much better than job and Ferres

Time to get rid of the ridiculous Easter fixture pile up. It's not doing the game any good.

It's alright players/fans moaning about it but its their employers that can do something about it. Vote to reduce the number of teams/fixtures. Can't see it happening purely for financial reasons so until then these fixtures are here to stay.

The other thing is, I think the third game is probably the point where you are more likely to pick up knocks/injuries just through accumulation so the worst could be yet to come!

Waite-Pullan has been injured again. He csnt stay fit unfortunately which is a shame cos hes a terrific talent.

Personally I doubt Alex Sutcliffe will ever make the grade at Leeds. Not big enough for 2nd row and too slow for centre.

I don't either now. But he is a much better backrower than Sutcliffe or Ferres. I watched him last Friday night against York for Fev also, and he was superb that game. Would certainly cover injuries currently.

Ferres been out of the team, despite the injuries, is like signing a new player. Such a lucky break for us there.

Largely true, but you can't go throwing them all in together. They all tried their hearts out on Monday, but when they come off the bench at the same time Wire bring on J Clark, Philbin, Akauola and Livett, there is only going to be one outcome.

One of the lads wasn't even in the first team squad until we played Hudds at the end of March and we needed to name a 17 man squad (still ended up naming an injured player on the bench so effectively went with 16), and this is from a 30 man squad

Plan was to run with 7 main props, of those the following are injured

Scruton
Jewitt
Masoe
Garbutt
Lannon
Greenwood

Maria is the right signing at the right time - needs must on this occasion

I don't see Alex as better than Ferres I'm afraid. I'm fed up of everything being blamed on Ferres tbh. I get hes been a poor signing but everytime we lose its cos of Ferres. Other players miss more tackles, give as many penalties away and get no blame.

Think there is an obsession with him.

Like I say i get hes been garbage, there was reasons for that in first few years with constant injuries but all coaches seem to rate him.

I think your been far too generous Marty, he's absolute poop, and is a lot more to blame than mere stats even. His mistakes always cost us, unlike general mistakes from others. He is a bad egg.

Good post

Get my two pets in at half back and things will turn round.
Nothing wrong with a half back pairing of Golding and Lilley at least compared to what we play with every week.
Lolohea, Sutcliffe and Myler simply do not cut it for me and despite us sticking with two of them for the past two or more years they will never be what we want or need.

Just to add Cuthbertson, Walker and Smith return in place of Albert, Ferres and Peteru.
I`m sure we signed a guy called Crosby and talked Ablett in to staying.
Has anyone seen them?

Gotcha is right that a lot of the penalties given away through Ferres' indiscipline do often seem to be more costly than those made by others. I'm sympathetic to Marty's idea that Ferres often makes a solid contribution compared to others in the team, but a lot of this is undone by his poor discipline. Someone like JJB has consistently given penalties away throughout his career, but that's mainly because of things like fatigue and playing the game to the limit. With Ferres you get the sense that he's often more interested in niggle than getting the job done. Ryan Bailey was a master of winding up opposition players and winning penalties (also Ablett, to a lesser degree), but too often Ferres plays dumb. It's a huge shame because he's clearly sorted his weight out in the off-season, and if he just plays to the best of his abilities and ditches the naughty stuff we might see more of what the coaching staff see in him at training etc.

With you on the Ferres always wanting to niggle.
My biggest downer however with him is that we spent and continue to spend an awful lot of money on someone who was supposed to be an international quality player. Since arriving at leeds he has been at best an average player and I believe his work ethic and attitude is poor.

That's exactly it with Ferres. It's a value for money arguement. We signed an international player, and have not once in 4(?) seasons seen one single performance from him that looks anything close to international class.

Yes, the squad to me looks very week in the pack. Players like Singelton for me are no where near good enough, but Ferres probably earns double what most of the average players earn, so he gets twice the stick.

With Ferres I don't think it is niggle. There is a selfishness & arrogance that he just cannot keep in check. Not only does that manifest itself in penalties (& in his private life) but during his Cas career a number of tries if he had given out the simple ball rather than go for the glory.

Can everyone be wrong? Ferres gives stupid penalties away that are invariably costly, he's not worth the salary cap he takes up (not on his own there Crosby and Abblett and Tui) Let's just get rid!

Can everyone be wrong? Ferres gives stupid penalties away that are invariably costly, he's not worth the salary cap he takes up (not on his own there Crosby and Abblett and Tui) Let's just get rid!

With the squad we have available I’d go with:

Walker
Briscoe
Watkins
Newman
Handley
Sutcliffe
Myler
Cuthbertson
Dwyer
Singleton
Trout
Smith
Merrin

Oledzki
JJB
Parcell
Donaldson

McLelland and Lolohea to miss out