Put Leeds, and Saints out to pasture at your peril.

It is good for the sport that Leeds are not dominating so far this year , I'm sure all true RL fans will agree



Of course most actual Leeds fans will say that it is because they have injuries rather than other teams improving , that was my excuse when Leigh used 38 players back in 2005

I think it will get worse for leeds before it get's better, with some of the fixtures coming up. Leeds struggle to win away at wigan at the best of times so in current form it's a likely loss.

But, write leeds off at your peril IMO.

They are tried and tested.

Especially if they have an early exit from the CC at hull.

It matters little. They will come through this bad spell and hit a prolonged spell of wins. IMO they are still nailed on for a high league placing and a Grand Final appearance. It would be an almighty fall from grace for them to fail. SL has improved, but not that much.

Do you still think huddersfield will finish in 10th place? Fwiw i am pretty sure leeds will finish top 4

agreed.

And if we go out of the CC early at hull, expect us to come on very strong in the last 2 months of the season.

TBF tonight we did have 7 out and no recognised wingers. We were our own enemy though. 11 dropped balls in Rovers half, the majority in the 20. The worst one was probably when McGuire shredded KR up and drew Briscoe only for Peacock to drop the pass and blow a certain try. That would have been 12-0 after 7 or 8 minutes.

Still, KR played well and like Cas and Salford have done at Headingley this year kicked us to death and we couldn't get out of our 20 In the last 10. We did have plenty of chances though but with no speed never looked like taking them.

its time hethrington opened the purse strings & payed the players what they think they are worth.

Why? It's never been a problem in tge past and it's not now. Why waste cap space when we don't need to?

i dont think its about the salary cap i think its about peacock whinging about playing to many games[he does'nt want more money its about sinfield [talking to the press about how the players are here at leeds not for the money but because its a close knit club & we want to win thing together well they've won everything together so now its time to be rewarded & i dont think they are getting it & i think its causing problems in camp.imo when your the best & your not being payed as much as players at other clubs then problems arise.hope im wrong though because a crap leeds team devalues the compitition big time.

I thought losing Lee Smith was going to be a big blow, i'm not sure how much money he wanted to stay but he was young and talented and would be a much better bet for the future than paying big money for Webb who is offering very little these days.

So far, this season Leeds have been found out.

It is a test of the PLAYERS ability to see if THEY can turn it round but boy it's obvious that some just cannot think outside the box!!

Last time I looked on the Rhino,s website there was a 15 page thread about the topic. Looks as though the Rhino will be heading down into the bottom 4 if they pick any more injuries up. Its going to be a tough campaign this season to keep teams at strength.

If only that pesky salary cap didn't get in the way.

What the players think they are worth and what they actually are, are 2 different things.

Some shouldn't even be paid in bent washers IMO!!!

Also if they are TEAM players money would be a secondary concern

Why is top 4 so important ? both 3 and 4 lost at home in round 2 last season, 5 and 6 get a home game and then a losing team away, not a massive advantage to my mind.

I think the play-offs will be different this season, 3 and 4 won't meekly accept the inevitable as last year and really bust a gut in round 1.

If Leeds do make it through to round 3 it would take a brave club to pick them.

With a full strength side Leeds are perhaps the only team that could win it from outside the top four. However, I can't see them not finishing in the top four because other sides will have injuries too. What would other teams do if players like Eastmond, Tomkins, King and Carmont were out injured?

Kings playing well but jesus, if he got injured we'd just stick someone else like Simon Grix there, no biggie.
We've also played most of this season without Clarke, Mathers (imo no real loss), Briers and Bridge and Myler have missed a few, every team gets injuries but in the past Leeds have been so far ahead of everyone else, throw a couple of kids in there and it hasn't made a difference.
Teams are going to headingly now genuinely believing they can win and honestly, I think its that change in mental attitude combined with a few missing for Leeds that in the past wouldnt have mattered that's seen some results like last night pop up.

you really are a clueless idiot aren't you? we had 7 first teamers out last night, we had 3 18 year olds on debut,another 2 yougsters with hardly a game between them and we still had a great chance of winning. the effort was outstanding, i was chuffed to bits with the effort. with even a couple of players back we would have won that game easily, rovers were no more than average.
oh, and peacock was the best player on the pitch by a mile, leading by example as usual

Just out of interest who were the 7 first teamers out? donald, watkins, eastwood....

Havent been to clued up on other teams injuries this season.

sinfield
donald
ablett
eastwood
hall
bailey
watkins
buderus

add to that delaney was throwing up in the warm up and was obviously ill

Ah right forgot about ablett, didnt realise hall was out (bugger he's in my fantasy team, hope he's not out for long) thought sinfield was back this week.

Maybe we should hand back the 2 points and play again when everyones feeling a bit better then

i never said that, you can only beat whats in front of you and you did that. i wasn't impressed though, i thought you were a lot better last season