With the game being cancelled today, we can now look forward to our first Friday night game at headingley next week.

Walker
Newman Sutcliffe Hurrell Handley
Lui Gale
Seumanufagai Dwyer Prior
Martin Ward
Smith

Myler Cuthbertson Oledzki Mellor

McLelland Donaldson Briscoe Evans.

I'd go with the same

The only possible change I might make is Evans for Sutcliffe with Newman moving into the Centre. Think HKR at home should be a game where Newman should be playing in his long term position.

Will Parcel and Garbutt be back for KR?

Start Myler at 9 imo.

I agree

Could Leeming be available or is he still a couple of weeks away?

If hull kr can reproduce the effort they put in against Hull I think they'll take the 2 points if they have parcell, Abdul and garbut playing. They gave Hull much more of a game than Leeds did.

That may be true, but it's their cup final. I'm hoping it's taken plenty out of them

fingers crossed

Maybe, though your derby performance fell a fair bit short of the one you put in the week previous. While it was a decent game to watch and rovers did well to keep it tight against the odds, they weren't all that threatening I thought. That said, how Leeds will play is anyone's guess.

I think it'll go all the way me. Golden point.

We are 1 of only 4 teams without a win and Hull kr were favourites for the drop before the season kicked off, we simply have to win this game.

Unexpected week off, may be a blessing in disquise, we should hav everyone fit except long term injuries, so can reset and make this game 1, all next 2 games are winnable and put us in some good shape for Warrington

To me our next game against KR how we perform will be a good indication as to how the first half of the season will go .

Its always a difficult thing to quantify. I think against you we really wanted to make a statement and we put everything into it. Then we had a short turnaround and struggled to bring that same intensity against Rovers. So whilst Rovers got a lot of plaudits, did they really offer more against us than Leeds did? I really don't know. But fwiw if Garbutt and Parcell are playing then I'm backing KR.

Come on Sir Kev we have played 1 game which granted we were well beaten in - KR have played 2 and lost one and they never really looked like beating Hull FC so I hardly think it is a must win situation. Let’s wait until we have played 3 or 4 games and see where we are.
Think too many Loiners fans have glasses half empty.

He's being sarcastic - the 'must win game' is his schtick, he will use it every game this season

OTOH Seumanafani, our biggest hitting prop should start after missing the FC game which kind of cancels out Garbutt's return (if indeed he's fit). Parcell can be a game changer but just as often goes missing. I reckon we'll win but have the feeling it'll not be easy.

I think Parcell has 1 more game of his suspension to serve and I don't think Mitch is quite fit yet. Still gonna be tough game and I wouldn't be in the least surprised if we lost

Incorrect, Parcell had a 3 game ban, which included one of the friendlies as per the rules. So is 100% back for this, I think he was also eligible for the FC game as he missed 2 pre season friendlies however he failed a fitness test. I'd expect him to be back in the team for Friday though.

Garbutt, who knows. Not even us KR fans know week by week what's happening with him, if he's in it's a bonus but our pack without him held out well against a bigger FC team last week, whether they can 2 weeks in a row is a different question.

Is the weeks break the best thing you need after a drubbing, I'm not sure. You constantly here coaches saying we would play again tomorrow to make it right after a poor performance so to sit on it for 2 weeks mentally may not be great. Physically it's a good rest, but do you need good rests at this stage of the season? Or do you need to be playing consistently to hit your straps.

Intriguing battle ahead.

I would say at this stage of the season playing competitive rugby is more important than having a weeks rest.
Although the Aussies seem to get away with it when they play the WCC.

25% of all ticket revenue taken from Hull kr fans will go to Mose Masoe, a nice move from the club.

Great gesture from Leeds. That won't be an insubstantial amount of cash.

I honestly think our first win will come against Toronto , not sure where the 2nd win comes from