That's correct.

Taking this season's average as a guide (330 from 36 = 9.17) it'll be during his 8th appearance of 2012.

Obviously it's impossible to know when his 8th appearance will come even if that proves to be the game when the record goes.

Bearing that in mind the 8th Leeds game of this season was 1st April 2011 and Sinfield had added 1 try, 32 goals and a drop goal for a total of 69 points.

So, potentially...

Game 7 - 16th March at Salford
Game 8 - 24th March at Saints
Game 9 - 30th March v Huddersfield
Game 10 - 6th April at Bradford
Game 11 - 9th April v London

It would be nice if he could do it at home against Huddersfield although at Saints new ground with a recognition of it at Headingley the following week would be Ok as well.

Ive just been on Rhinos website ansd noticed Sinfield is on 399 apps ,so he will make 400 on feb 3rd?

I think it must. Checking in the handbook, which arrived this morning with my new season ticket, he's made 372 starting appearances and 27 substitute ones, making 399.

Either way he has a good chance of making 400 starts this year ,great achievement

Yes, that's the total I have and the correct split for Sinfield's 1st grade career with Leeds:

Appearances - 399
Starts - 372
Substitute - 27

Tries - 67
Goals - 1279
Drop Goals -27
Points - 2853

After hitting the 400 his next landmark will be his 300th start in the SL Regular Rounds as he currently rests on 297. He also needs one try for 50 in the Regular Rounds.

Life must be almost like one long milestone for Sinfield.

Should be a few good over at least the next 3 seasons

Tvoc ?Just been reading when Sinfield makes his 400th app for Leeds ,He will be only the 11th player to do so.Ive got counted of my head to 7 J Holmes, F webster ,J brough ,J Atkinson,D ward,R Batten,D Ward,and maybe Alan Smith.Who are the others to make the 400?

Good question.

I have no complete count but using a combination of the Headingley Story and my own records post 1979/80 I can also get to a total of ten names.

Using Appearances (under which heading I include starts and substitutions)

1 - 624 - John Holmes (603 + 21) noted that other records show 625 (604 + 21)
2 - 543 - Fred Webster
3 - 518 - John Atkinson (512 + 6)
4 - 480 - David Ward (440 + 40)
5 - 479 - Alan Smith (468 + 11)
6 - 442 - Jim Brough
7 - 434 - Ray Batten (420 + 14)
8 - 432 - Les Dyl (418 + 14)
9 - 415 - Evan Williams
10 - 410 - Neil Hague (392 + 1icon_cool.gif

It is noticable that two world wars prevented others from achieving this 400 milestone

The all-time Leeds points scoring record countdown is on so I'll be posting an updated count after each match until Lewis Jones' long standing total is finally eclipsed.

After Round 1's 10 point haul Sinfield is now on 2,863 (57 to tie 2,920 - 58 to claim the record outright)

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Assuming he plays at Wigan - Ryan Bailey, after making his 200th SL Regular Round appearance last week and becoming the 9th Leeds player to do so with the club will this week make his 250th Leeds appearance in all comps, again becoming the 9th Leeds player to do that also.

The previous eight were: Rob Burrow, Francis Cummins, Matt Diskin, Jamie Jones-Buchanan, Barrie McDermott, Danny McGuire, Keith Senior and Kevin Sinfield.

Ryan Hall, should he play, will be making his 100th appearance in the SL Regular Rounds.

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With many thanks to =#0000BFA-Fire-Inside for the following:

Danny McGuire needs one appearance to reach 300 for his career. McGuire made his Leeds debut against Salford at Headingley on 6 July, 2001 and has played in 271 games for the Rhinos since then.

McGuire has made 12 Test appearances for Great Britain (2004 & 2006-2007) and also played for the Lions in the 2006 Tri-Nations warm-up game against Newcastle Division.

He also has representative honours for England (7 games, 2008-2009); England 'A' (6 games, 2002-2003) and England under-21s (2 games, 2001).

Very possible Mcguire could make his 300th appearance for Leeds in the Grand Final then. Would be good to round that milestone of with a win. Could he do it in the Challenge Cup final?

This core group of players have all been here so long now should be quite a number hit the 300 mark hence the year after year testimonlials

What's incredible is that for so many years major milestones - bar possibly appearances - were few and far between. Once the existing players had retired who had been playing before I started watching in 81, there was virtually nothing to report on the record front for years. A testimony to how stable the side has been for a long time now.

tvoc, are you doing the OPTA threads this year?

And as for milestones, this team/squad must have the record for most records; there seems to be a new one every week.

For the upcoming milestone, I think they should make the pillar in the middle of the South Stand into a big Blue Peter style totaliser. Every time Sir Kev gets more points, someone should paint on another bit until he hits the target. I don't think the man himself would approve though. He's far too modest.

Danny McGuire also played a international match for the northern union in which he scored 2 tries. www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2007/oc ... ague.sport

Danny McGuire also played a international match for the northern union in which he scored 2 tries. www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2007/oc ... ague.sport

Quote ="Glenn Quagmire"tvoc, are you doing the OPTA threads this year? '" No, unfortunately some things have had to give way. This season I simply have to devote my spare time to catching up on last season. I was gently persuaded to carry on last year but the backlog elsewhere has grown and grown. The alternative is to just let some archiving go and I'm not yet prepared to do that. So sorry but there will be no Opta threads from me and no voluntary monitoring of the prediction comp - although with Foxy's involvement that wouldn't have been neccessary anyway albeit a coincidence. I will still score the Southstander Regular Round League table at season end though - viewtopic.php?f=17&t=515106 __________ Quote ="Man of steel 07"Danny McGuire also played a international match for the northern union in which he scored 2 tries. www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2007/oc ... ague.sport'" Thanks for that. I'll pass the information back up the chain for clarification. (Tricky things official statistics, knowing what counts and what doesn't and not something I would know enough about to comment on. Possibly explains why I concentrate on Leeds 1st grade)

Quote ="Glenn Quagmire"tvoc, are you doing the OPTA threads this year? '" No, unfortunately some things have had to give way. This season I simply have to devote my spare time to catching up on last season. I was gently persuaded to carry on last year but the backlog elsewhere has grown and grown. The alternative is to just let some archiving go and I'm not yet prepared to do that. So sorry but there will be no Opta threads from me and no voluntary monitoring of the prediction comp - although with Foxy's involvement that wouldn't have been neccessary anyway albeit a coincidence. I will still score the Southstander Regular Round League table at season end though - viewtopic.php?f=17&t=515106 __________ Quote ="Man of steel 07"Danny McGuire also played a international match for the northern union in which he scored 2 tries. www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2007/oc ... ague.sport'" Thanks for that. I'll pass the information back up the chain for clarification. (Tricky things official statistics, knowing what counts and what doesn't and not something I would know enough about to comment on. Possibly explains why I concentrate on Leeds 1st grade)

tvoc, if you have a spreadsheet format that you can e-mail me I'll do my very best to update the weekly OPTA stats from the Engage Superleague site since i presume that is the source you previously.
I may miss an odd week due to holidays but will see if one of my lads will do it to cover those weeks.

Ian Kirke will not thank you for this

Quote ="tvoc"No, unfortunately some things have had to give way. This season I simply have to devote my spare time to catching up on last season. I was gently persuaded to carry on last year but the backlog elsewhere has grown and grown. The alternative is to just let some archiving go and I'm not yet prepared to do that. So sorry but there will be no Opta threads from me and no voluntary monitoring of the prediction comp - although with Foxy's involvement that wouldn't have been neccessary anyway albeit a coincidence. I will still score the Southstander Regular Round League table at season end though - viewtopic.php?f=17&t=515106'" No problem, it was fun while it lasted! Hopefully Old Feller's plans come off.

Quote ="tvoc"No, unfortunately some things have had to give way. This season I simply have to devote my spare time to catching up on last season. I was gently persuaded to carry on last year but the backlog elsewhere has grown and grown. The alternative is to just let some archiving go and I'm not yet prepared to do that. So sorry but there will be no Opta threads from me and no voluntary monitoring of the prediction comp - although with Foxy's involvement that wouldn't have been neccessary anyway albeit a coincidence. I will still score the Southstander Regular Round League table at season end though - viewtopic.php?f=17&t=515106'" No problem, it was fun while it lasted! Hopefully Old Feller's plans come off.

I've not set anything up for this season but if you provide an e-mail address via the private message function I can send you the two spreadsheets I used last season for this specific task.

They were created using 'Excel 97' but I imagine will still open with newer versions but be warned it'll take some effort to adapt them for this season - which is partly why I haven't done so myself.

I don't know whether they will prove to be more a help or a hindrance overall but you're welcome to have a look. They worked for me but obviously I designed and knew my way around them which probably helped.

Already have to make 1 correction from last week (although using Excel means I have methods for double checking scores - sadly I mistook Rhinos for Rovers for one person). I did think about asking everyone to post their predictions using a search friendly method so I could just copy and paste it but I fear that probably wouldn't happen.

I'd make the request. As long as the instructions are clear I think posters will tend to oblige if it's not too arduous.

I did something similar (on a small scale) with the Southstander Regular Round Finishing Table thread and it was almost universally adopted, which will be a big help come the season end.

I immediately noticed a new variation with your comp which needed a double take to clarify. I won't name drop who started the trend but he'd be the last person I'd have thought would welcome the confusion.

Do it. If people can't follow a format then their entry doesn't count.

If you set out the fixtures and ask people to copy, paste and amend it shouldn't be too hard.