looks like a potential injury crisis up front. Leuluai was out before Catalans, Delaney & Kirke went off during the game, and Bailey's now suspended.

Potentially leaves us needing to play

Watkins, Vickery, Keinhorst, Moon, Hall, Sinfield, McGuire, Moore, McShane, Peacock, Jones-Buchanan, Ablett & Ward, with Burrow, Achurch, Singleton & Clarkson coming off the bench.

So what's the problem?

Kylie will be playing, I'm fairly certain!

Also Bailey out I see that as an advantage for us at present.

Isn't Hardaker back as well?

He's good, but I'm not sure he's front row material...

Hardaker back to FB, Watkins back to centre, Ablett moves back to the 2nd row in place of Delaney, Kylie comes back in for Bailey, and if Kirke's out bring in Singleton.

We'll have Moore available to sit on the bench.

Ablett was missing tackles for fun at one point V Catalans - if ever there was a player playing injured I think you've been looking at one for the past two games.

Unfortunately with a meager/barely adequately resourced squad to begin with which shrinks even further in McDermott's hands no doubt Ablett will have to continue playing next week also.

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Hold the back page I'm actually going to give a shout out for Vickery here. Anybody else notice when Fakir lost possession on 34 minutes - Jones-Buchanan handed the ball to Ablett, Vickery shot his hand up pointed to the corner asking and rightly expecting a kick to chase on the free play. Ablett either clueless or playing in pain opts to take the ball into defenders.

Leeds need to get Watkins back to right centre - last year he outplayed Atkins from there in the corresponding fixture to this week's game - and I'd be looking to do that whether Hardaker is ready to return or not.

I saw that. Vickery should be the champion of this message board. Just like most of us, doesn't posess the necessary skills to actually play but appears to really understand the game.

As for forwards available, we will be OK. We only need 1 prop. It's a new innovation from McDermott apparantly.

What leads you to believe Ablett is injured?

Every squad can be improved but IMO the current Leeds squad is more than "barely adequate"

For me IF the injuries are bad enough to miss the game i'd go with.
Jp
Mcshane/Burrow
Moore
Jjb
Ablett
Ward

Achurch
Singleton
Burrow/Mcshane
Clarkson

You'll need more players than that?

If you want an injury crisis in the forwards, take a look at Wigan at the minute.

Leeds aren't facing anything like that amount of problems up front, even with one senior prop out on loan.

Hey, that bench isn't going to sit on itself is it?

True. But have you seen the size of Moores ? Can't see what the bench has done wrong.

Tell you what - why dont we use B Macs rotation policy and use the same 19 we always do - maybe call Singleton up and never use him too. That would work.

Not just in the forwards either as according to some site clairvoyants Smith and Green would prove to be significant downgrades from the departing Leuluai and Finch?

Wigan appear to be coping quite well by placing trust in their production line and having a coaching philosophy that is consistently adhered to throughout the grades that appears to allow players to move with ease within.



And yet it's likely to cause Leeds difficulties .... if true, why would that be?

We do have a GF-winning prop on loan and apparently on form at another SL club, should we want him to actually play for us.

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Being very generous to the RLfans posters with your first statement Gareth! I never said it was genius or innovative just playing with some game sense, who got the offload away to JJB setting up field position for Mcshanes try? As I asked earlier on another thread, if the RFL said teams could have 5 or 6 subs should we use all those too?

Another thing that I'm not sure has been noted is Leeds having 2 weeks off due to the wakey game being postponed so the Leeds forwards had less time on the field in the last fortnight than they should have had.

We are only light 2 props and one SR we should have plenty of strength in depth. The part that bothers me is the timing of griffin going. If we didn't fancy him, why didn't we get rid earlier and recruit or trust our youth players

How dare you question our glorious infallible head coach

Im sorry but you've blotted your copy book too many times to be taken seriously!

Maybe so..... but the point remains. Nobody is infallible (not even me

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McDermott deserves respect: of course he does.....BUT he has faults. Surely even you (if not that Spanish fella forum contributer whose name I have temporarily forgotten

) can admit that??