1) Aston Goulding
2) Billy McDermott
3) Ash Handley
4) Jordan Harper
5) Tommy Brierly
6) Jordan Lilley
7) Ben White


Rob Mulhern
9) Robbie Ward
10) Dan Grange
11) Josh Walters
12) Brad England
13) Elliot Minchella

14) Ben Frankland
15) Matty Stableford
16) Matty While
17) George Milton

Quite a few younger lads from the u16's stepping up this year ,Brad England has come in from Cas ,While from Cumbria and Union converts Walters and Grange are now 100% RL players.
Hopefully Mulhern will hit the ground running after breaking his leg last year whilst in good strong form ,Lilley is highly rated and it will be interesting to se if Minchella can continue his upward curve or progress.
On a personal level i like the look of Goulding but we have depth at Wing and FB so that should be a huge battle for him.
It also make or break for White and Ward i really like the look of Ward who is a clever 9 but pretty comfortable at 7 whereas White can play 6 ,7 and 13.

Game called off. Waterlogged pitch.

Re-arranged for Thursday night 7.15pm at the KC Lightstream Stadium if any of you want to come and have another look at our new stand.

The young Rhinos won 60-10
Try scorers were
Handly x3
Sutcliffe x2
Whitex3 & 8G
Ward
Mcdermott
Brierly

Liam Sutcliffe is going to be a special player. I guess you already knew that though! One of the best individual performances I have seen at that level. Not really sure what he will have got out of it in truth but I enjoyed watching him anyway.

He will have got nothing.

Sutcliffe was given the opportunity to spend this season at London and was willing to do so. McDermott put a stop to it at the eleventh hour as he wanted him in his first team plans. However, when all senior pivots are fit McDermott, rather predictably, will go with them, leaving Sutcliffe on the outer.

Rather emphasises the big difference between U19's and top level Superleague. Sutcliffe is a talent and his time will come, although I have doubts it will be as a dominant 6, he looks more like a centre or a 13. He has not shown yet that he can run a game or command the 6 position as his own like Maguire did when he burst onto the scene.

McDermott has shown faith in him by keeping him in our first team squad and I feel sure will get plenty of games this year allbeit from the bench or when injuries provide the opportunity. McDermott is correct to stick with the proven talent until Sutcliffe can command a place on merit rather like Singleton has now done.

I agree with your appraisal of Sutcliffe though don't think McGuire was as commanding as you say when he burst onto the scene (though he was a support player with no equal).

I know that McDermott has expressed real faith in the lad and, as I say, Ki-boshed the London loan deal. I just wonder, if Sutcliffe will be getting 10 mins in the 1st team and U19s games here and there if it was the right decision.

I'd also question while a loan deal would be good for Sutcliffe to get game time, whether the shambles that is London is the best place for him to learn as a playmaker.

I've just watched the highlights of the game on Rhinos tv.
It may be churlish to be over critical when the team has just won 60-12 but on at least 2 occasions after making a break players only looked to their left for a team-mate when there was a better pass to be made to the right.
I wondered if the supporting players are not talking (shouting) to the man with the ball.
Sutcliffe did look good & we appeared to have them well beaten for pace in most positions.

I was only thinking this morning on my way to work, DUlls lose SAmmutt and GAskell, they need a 6 and we need him to gain experience, with the bulls having a solid workman like pack to protect him, this could be a match made in heaven ?

I like this suggestion.Win Win for both clubs as long as we put some kind of recall clause in a deal then allowing him to move would be a good thing as, unless we get a a few injuries it seems his chances will be limited to a few short stints here and there and he is too good for U19's.

Could be replacing Sinfield..

Yes you are right McGuire was never really a commander at 6 in the same way as Lewis Jones, John Holmes, Harris or Sinfield were/are. I meant his performances (as a match winning support scorer) 'commanded' a starting place in the team (he was sometimes at 7), something which Sutcliffe has not done to date despite showing talent and promise.



I think he will get plenty of game time this year as injuries and form inevitably creep in. Also because Sutcliffe has not really shown us his best position there would be a danger that if he were loaned out he would never find it as he would be selected to fill gaps rather than for his futrure development. I think he is rated and will be allowed to find his best position by staying at Leeds.

I would see Sutcliffe as a #13 and replacement for Sinfield, but where would that leave Stevie Ward, another player I have admired for a few years.

I maybe wrong but I think Ward played most of his junior rugby as a standoff. I would like to see Ward given a run in a pivotal role at either 13 or in the halves.

I was thinking that Ward would be best suited to SO and Sutcliffe to LF. Whilst Ward hits hard for his size I personally would like to see him at half back instead of in the forwards where he might not be big enough at this stage of his career. I do hope we don't revert to the McGuire Burrow half back pairing against Catalans.

Personally I think both Sutcliffe and Ward will end up in the back row. One as a LF, the other as wide running back rower similar to Greg Bird.

I can see where yer coming from with that CS especially if this Jorden Lilley breaks through eventually as a 6 he's highly rated.

It was great to see Stevie Ward back in the action Friday night.

he looked pretty sharp too

Wonder if they read my previous post ?