Unavailable - Fusitua, Newman, Handley, Holroyd, Bentley, Gannon, Hudson, Donaldson, Simpson, Warren.

Edgell;
Roberts, Martin, Momirovski, Miller;
Croft, Frawley;
Oledzki, Ackers, Sangare;
McDonnell, Ruan;
Smith;

O’Connor, Lisone, Goudemand, Nicholson-Watton

Look what happened in the 'winnable' games against Cas and Wakefield last season. I'm not saying it is a certainty, but Leeds have a habit of finding a way to lose in these kinds of games, especially when we are coming off poor form and the expectation of fans and media is behind us. On paper we should win convincingly, but if the mentality isn't there a loss feels like it is on the cards. I hope I'm wrong!

For some reason this team (and those of everyone since and including McDermott) seem to be brought down to the quality of the opposition instead of playing at the level they are capable of.

Swap Miller and Edgell.

Anything could happen in this game... impossible to call. play like we did in the first half v wire and we should win comfortably but god knows..

Been told Riley Lumb could make his full debut for us on wing this weekend.

Ok that’s interesting.

This selection is nails and RS is going to have to show some good judgement and bottle here.

Miller
Edgell, Roberts, Momirovski, McCormack
Croft, Frawley
Mik, Ackers, Sangare
Martin, McDonnell
Smith:

O’Connor, TNW, Ruan, Lisone

Edgell is good under the high ball and Roberts will be less exposed at centre, so we should be sound under kick pressure that side. I’d try to keep some consistency in the pack but Ruan replaces Goudemand for me if fit.

This lot get beaten by 50 pts every week , so not sure where we go if we can't win this one as they really are garbage .

Why not select Handley. He is not fit so meets RS criteria. Panic by rushing back and then out for extra 10 weeks!!!!

Fus injured is other knee.Considering how Smith is looking after Gannon i not sure how you've come to Smith panicking on selecting players unfit?

RS said this about Bentley


Shame, we could do with his aggression on the pitch right now.

Prefer Miller at full back , would like him to come into the line more often. As we used to do with Brent Webb.

No Fusitua, Newman, Handley, Holroyd, Bentley, Gannon, Hudson, Donaldson, Johnson, Warren, Simpson.

Lumb, Littlewood, McCormack, Ruan, Edgell, Nicholson-Watton all included.

I'm expecting us to line up like this

Miller
Roberts
Momirovski
Martin
Lumb/ McCormack
Croft
Frawley
Oledzki
Ackers
Sangare
Goudemand
Mcdonnell
Smith

Subs
O'Connor
Lisone
Ruan
T.N.W

For me the big decision is who plays centre between Roberts, Martin and McCormack. The rest of the side falls out of that decision. I think RS will select Martin. This is a horrible selection for him with the pressure around the place.

It's pros and cons but I wonder whether Roberts would do better not being the last guy on the edge taking bombs. He's not actually been playing badly apart from a couple of dropped balls.

McCormack is a good prospect and Edgell has been around the first team squad all year, played well against HKR away and has looked decent in the reserves.

How bold will/can RS be here? Time will tell...

it's not a horrible selection, it's what coaches, in all sports, get paid the big bucks for.
the best ones get it right

Hang on… are you…. Are you suggesting you don’t rate Rohan Smith Taddlers?

Seems one coach struggled with the above tonight - perhaps if players don't stand up not much managers can do!!

Tadders is not suggesting RS is a good coach, he is struggling to post anything positive about the Rhino's, had this issue for many years now, maybe should seek help !!!

We’ve lacked cohesion and structure from the word go so a couple of changes to the team shouldn’t make much difference. It could be the chance some of the younger players need. I’ve stopped classing Fuisitua as unavailable, and simply airbrushed him from my memory. Maybe that is what the powers that be should have done before renewing his contract. The main worry for me is that our powder puff forwards are once again outplayed leaving the backs to win the game by themselves. Sunday 3pm should have ensured a healthy gate for this one, but considering the quality on offer they will be lucky to get a half full stadium. It’s sad really.

Interesting watching the build up to the Cowboys Vs Penrith game it shows Penriths game board with a simple sentence on it.

Structure allows creativity and freedom.

Of course, all gos out the window when Cleary went for a short kickoff that let the cowboys immediately score from. Not so different after all SL & NRL.

A clean sweep of home wins so far this weekend.

Looking at how many players they have injured too, we really should do the job tomorrow. Need to win both the next games or this season looks done already.

After the game:

“We were our own worst enemies”
”We’ll pick ourselves up for next week”
“The group is disappointed”

Anymore for anymore?

Proud of the effort is usually a winner…

Another glorious day of summer rugby ahead. Who else is going?