According to Joker (who is mostly right) we are going with a 1 hooker tactic.

Gibson hasnt been picked much yet either because McClennan wanted to use the mojarity of the team playing in the WCC in the run up where possible.

Watkins for me because is gives us more options with Abbo moving to the pack. Also if needed Watkins will be a decent winger and has more speed than Ash.

I think from looking at the 3 SL games though that we have been using 2 hookers. Why would they do that if we don't do it in the big one?

I think maybe get Diskin used to playing along side the $2million dollar man

You have to look at numbers and options though. Is this going to be a game that warrants 2 hookers? I think it will be tight. Maybe better to have 3 frwds and a back on the bench.

We will have spells of Sinfield at hooker, Ablett to loose and diskin subbed. This would tie Watkins in nicely to come on at Centre.

Thats a good call. We do have plenty of people who could cover dummy half for 15mins to give Disco a rest

Gibson and mcshane to drop out then.
I just hope the gamble with ali and burrow doesn't back-fire!


C'mon the RHINOS!!!!

Doubt it will... remember he said over a week ago that they probably could have played in the KR game. Then all of a sudden they were very doubtful for this game. All mind games IMO.

Hope so i'm still confident either way!

Would be absolutely the worst option to take as it disrupts the pattern of the team too much.

McLennan needs to have faith in McShane and put him on the bench, give him ten minutes or so either side of half time to enable Diskin to come back fresh for the last 25-30 minutes.

In the FE last season it was Webb who jumped into dummy half and when he was out of the GF it was Burrow. If Burrow plays I'd expect to see that again to give Diskin a spell.

Sounds good enough to win to me...just a wee bit worried about the ref based on his performances to date.

The last thing Leeds need to be worrying about. If Jason Robinson controls the tackle area on Sunday the same way he did at Warrington, Manly will get absolutely caned in the penalty count.

His interpretation was very SL orientated, giving the defending team no latitude to work the tackled player on the floor.

Exactly, I only saw his 1st half performance and I thought he was good. Aparently he made a few bad calls in the 2nd though.


I have no worries with this appointment.

By the way who did '05? Was it Shane Hayne?

Nope.

Sean Hampstead (Australia)

Looking at the article on the Rhinos website listing the games we have played in our history at Elland Road, I was certain we had played Hunslet there but obviously we haven't.

I remember us playing a league game at Headingley against them in the 80's but obviously not whilst they were playing at Elland Road.

Anyone know (TVOC) where Hunslet played any home games against Leeds since 1980?

Dane Carlaw thinks otherwise.

We have, although not as the Rhinos.

The 1938(?) Championship Final between Hunslet and Leeds was played at Elland Road.

IIRC Hunslet became tenants at Elland Road when the stadium was bought by the council (1984/5?). I'm not sure they've been in the same division as Leeds at any point since then?

I attended a Leeds v Hunslet game at Elland Road in 1987 IIRC.

I realise it was pre-SL but I definitely remember playing Hunslet at Headingley as some of their supporters were sitting by us and shouting at the Leeds players that they were losing ground, to which a Leeds supporter replied "You lost yours years ago".

That could have been a Yorkshire Cup game, which I believe is the last time we played them in a competitive game.

I know we won that game after a struggle, and ended up signing Jimmy Lowes on the strength of his performance at scrum-half. Shortly after Open Rugby ran an article saying what a strange decision it was to sign him, but not half as strange as Laughton's decision to play him at hooker. Yeah, really stupid that, he'd never have made a hooker, would he?

No he won't. Regards, Dean Bell.

I got the initials right

Went on report. I had no issues with that decision

At first glance the list appears OK, has it been altered?



Specifically:

23-Oct-79 ….. FT ….. Hunslet 10 ….. Leeds 12 ….. Greyhound Stadium ….. Att: 4,500
6-Apr-80 ….. CHP ….. Hunslet 21 ….. Leeds 7 ….. Greyhound Stadium ….. Att: 2,363
21-Oct-84 ….. CHP ….. Hunslet 2 ….. Leeds 29 ….. Elland Road ….. Att: 6,264
6-Sep-87 ….. CHP ….. Hunslet 8 ….. Leeds 12 ….. Elland Road ….. Att: 7,500

I've added the top one as a bonus as anyone who remembers, it was on a night when the buses stopped running at 6 o'clock for some reason or other and me and a couple of mates legged it home to Pudsey in time for the BBC2 coverage. Some effort that was for 10 o'clock.