Who are these good centre options?
Fwiw think we’ll struggle first few games. But 9 faith we’ll come good later into season…..

With the early injuries we have I can see a slow start coming

The injury news keeps getting worse I'm told Fusitu'a is being sent for a scan on his knee after the HKR friendly

Martin Olpherts Edwards Fitisua maybe even Handley.

Another poor season on the cards. Out of all the young signings from lower league sides, only Ruan looks half decent and he can’t defend. Warrington will pump us first game.

Jesus, like reading Facebook on here.

I'm sure the current coach with a weaker squad got us to the GF last year by some miracle.

That’s the spirit!

Jeez

Not sure why you have mentioned the young players these are for the future not now.Smith has already stated this.You have already written this season off before its started.

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I said ‘good’ options…..lol….
Will hopefully be a forwards battle because Warrington are a hellaofa lot quicker than us with our injuries…..

Peter Matautia and Stephan Ratchford are their centres.

Think as well the aim is to improve standards in the reserve set up. To me it makes a lot of sense having a set of decent standard players in early twenties mentoring the younger players coming through. Dual reg and loans are fine up to a point but they're always going to be coached by guys whose principal objective is winning with developing players something of a distant second.

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Yeah but they got Dufty, Ashton, Thewlis too…..

And we have Handley and Tindall who are both quick.

Let’s be honest, we’ve been terrible pre season and that was about the strongest squad we’ve got available that Smith put out on Sunday and they were garbage. I’d fancy our chances with a fully fit 17 including Newman, Macdonald, Oledzki and Bentley, but that’s not looking anywhere near likely.

And we were excellent pre season last year, how did that go?

Rhyse Martin said in an interview they didn’t even go with any game plans in Pre Season it was just about practice.

Writing them off after a couple of pre season games is just stupid.

Is Tetevano banned yet? xD

Max Simpson confirmed to be out for the full season

Yeah, was clear after ACL announced…..

I’ve not seen any announcements about Max Simpson, where have they been? Seems to make the Edward’s decision even more puzzling…

If Smith has no plans to use Edwards why would it make a difference? Its been said that Edwards wanted first team rugby this year but was told that wouldn't be happening. Smith doesn't seem keen to use teenagers, and Simpson might not have played many games even if he was fit, let alone Edwards.

We may only be without Newman/MacDonald for a couple of games, and behind them we've got Roberts, Olpherts, Martin, McDonnell, and Handley who can all play in the centres. I don't see the point in keeping Edwards at the club if he's 6th or 7th pick and unwilling to wait a year or so. I understand Edwards' views, but like I say if he was some kind of mega prospect he wouldn't be joining York - there are plenty of other SL sides who he could get a game for if he was ready.

I couldn’t care less about the pre season results or performance. Used to try certain aspects and blow off cobwebs. Whatever was done is done.
The only thing that counts now is Warrington away. I’m not going to write anyone off before a ball is passed in anger.

Agreed. And even after the first few rounds. We all know too well that the emphasis in Super League is how you build during the year. You get now prozws for smashing teams out of the water at the start of the year if you can't maintain it.

True but if we have an iffy start then im sure the usual keyboard coaches on the Leeds social media sites will be lobbing in their two penneth of banal suggestions and new coaches needed after half an hour on Thursday.

Regular as clockwork.

Saying it's a joke that Joel Moon wasn't even in the team