This could get very messy if yesterday is anything to go about. McDermott says nobody will return next week so that makes me wonder what has actually happened to Falloon. Singleton has confirmed on Twitter he's not injured. I would have him straight back in next week. We need Hardaker back at full back and feel that the reason he's on wing is something to do with his Twitter outburst. By the sounds of McDermott he wasn't happy with Lilley for some reason so expect him to be either dropped or on the bench. Achurch really needs to be dropped now, for me he's not giving us anything.

Hardaker
Handley Watkins Keinhorst Golding
Sutcliffe McGuire
Galloway Burrow Garbutt
Ferres JJB
Cuthbertson

Lilley Singleton Mullally Walters

I've long given up caring what team is selected ....

At this stage it's irrelevant whether we play this forward or that forward, whether Lilley starts or is an unused sub. Collectively the basic fundamentals aren't there. Wigan will march Leeds down the field easily and will look like scoring every time they get into Leeds' half, which will be on every set unless they knock on. Because of being relentlessly marched down the field Leeds will tire quickly.

The other potential scenario is Leeds actually play abit better and wigan are so so.. But still leeds lose.

Get the lube out, and strap in, cos this should at least be the last time we have to play a fired up Wigan on magic weekend for a while...Every cloud n' all

At least there's no big bad Micky Mac to scare your entire forward pack this year

The only reason I can imagine why McD is playing Hardaker on the wing is because we have so many small guys on the field at once (Burrow, Lilley, Goulding, McGuire) and our left side defense would have been Goulding, Burrow, Keinhorst so I think he strengthened it up by playing Hardaker out there

I can see Wigan running 8o in next week. A humiliation at a showpiece event may be whats needed to change whatever is going on at the club.

Yep....McDermott is a genius

hope a few less but could be horrendous. Tomkins could have a field day In all that space to play. We must play hardaker at full back to defend.

Falloon was definitely injured at saints but is there any news on any of them ? I thought Moon was nearly back about 4 weeks ago.

Expect Achurch to play. No way will the sleeve allow a man on (allegedly) astronomical wages sit at home

Well he would scare us now and he did scare us but only a little bit last October

You mean I pointed it out on here and you've twigged onto it that's it's a real possibility.

Don't worry those other Magic weekend defeats came under Sinfield and Peacock's coaching.

Worst two teams in the competition playing in the showpiece slot, should be err interesting

What was the highest defeat?

Leeds have to win a game sometime this season next Saturday would be a good time to start.

It can't possibly be as bad as Thursday night and it is unlikely that Wigan will play as well as Cas who played the best of any side Leeds have played this season

Not convinced by that last bit. Think a championship club would have beat us comfortably on Thursday. We were even more comfortably beaten by Widnes, performance wise, and yet as bad as we were, we were better than Thursday. Cas showed, as Hull showed last night, a desire to work hard and together makes you a lot stronger, and sets the platform for everything else. We are yet to show that this year, the glue needs re-sticking.

I thought Cas were good they should have scored 70 simple plan executed really well.

We have too many average players in our team - Gary needs to spend some serious cash, unless we are in the championship

I agree they were good, very good, but that was a very poor Leeds team. Wigan were beat comfortably last night, but I still reckon they would have beaten that Cas side on Thursday, as they wouldn't allowed them to play that way.

The average players situation has always been there, during the successful era. Too many fans placed too much plaudits to average players. Certain ones were instrumental, and that comes home to light when not replaced.

That is true just not as many as we have now

Why didnt he do it in the GF last year?

the only think 'micky mac' will be scaring this season is his wife, every morning she wakes up.

what is Mcdermott's problem with Singleton at the moment ?

Trust me we are totally useless.
I anticipate a comfortable win for you guys next week.