Will the DW even have the new pitch re-laid this season? ie Has the job already been paid for? Potentially might not even happen if not.

Would we not just buy the lease? The council own the land so the stadium lease won't be sold to anyone other than WRL.

I don't know, but if we did - how long would it take? Begbies wouldn't sell the ground separately to the football club - why would it be different this time? Even if they entertained the idea, it wouldn't be the 1st option that they pursued.

I guess it's a convo for the Latics thread. My original post was just a throw away comment that it could be a while before we play at the DW again.

Well that depends if Latics are in administration or not, and if Begbies are the administrators. Even then they may have a different opinion this time.

The stadium can't be bulldozed and used for houses or a supermarket so it's pretty worthless really to anyone apart from a new buyer for Latics or WRL.

Even under administration WRL would still be able to play there just as Latics would.

Just seen the training pics of Cust. Both arms strapped up. Surely that must be hindering him playing. What’s the deal? I know he did his elbow in the CC but is he afraid he’ll do it again or is it a problem area for him?

He did it again at some point last season too didn't he? Was it Leeds in the playoff?

I think I remember him saying in an interview it was more of a mental thing - a bit like skullcap. But I might be wrong. I think you can definitely trace his drop off in form to that injury.

Leaving his biscuit elbows aside, he looks like he’s continued to work hard on his fitness going off the pictures. He looks more slight than last year and hopefully that will stand him in good stead in his comeback. He was blowing hard last year when he came back in to the side and got caught out for that winning try for Saints at Magic.

Shorrocks at halfback again...

What the actual f*ck!!! Surely that little emergency experiment as run its course?

Doesn't make sense to me - you could play one of Cust and Hampshire from the start and one off the bench if you needed to split the work.

It’s amazing people are clamouring for Rocky to start, or even play but I am one of them. I just don’t believe the Cust/Smith partnership works, far too similar a player. It reminds me of the Widdop/Williams partnership at Warrington in many ways.

Shorrocks has done alright but he’s not a half - I don’t even know what his best position is. The game at Hull exposed our lack of creativity and organisation in the halves and I’m not too sure we can bank the Saints/Warrington games as major plus points for our halves as each and every player 1 to 17 played out of their skin in both games. When we have an off day, like we did at Hull, we become exposed in the halves and resort to one up rugby and rubbish offloads.

I don’t think Shorrocks deserves to be dropped to 18th man but at the same time he doesn’t warrant a starting berth in the halves either. I just don’t see the logic in it personally but in Peet we trust and let’s hope we’re all proved wrong come 10pm.

I can only guess that due to Mago being the only prop on the bench, that the plan is to move Smithies into the front row and switch Shorrocks to 13 when Byrne or Havard need a breather.

Pretty poor attack so far, very one out rugby

Yeah it isn’t pretty but to be fair this Leeds side is absolutely terrible. We’ve not had to even think about moving into 2nd gear

What happened in the reserve game? Said there was an injury and the game was called off

Well the hard ground and good weather is here but the attacking structure is drab and poorly designed. Playing wet-weather rugby on a perfect night.

Not overly impressed with that 1st half performance, hopefully when we get some players back we can get some cohesion and decent attacking shape and structures

Bentley may be the first player to get a ban for injuring himself with the shoulder charge on Miski.

Wouldn't expect to see Tetevano next week either.

More importantly Harry Smith might not play because of Leeds' ill discipline.

We lack some serious size and intent in this team. Dreadful start to the second half. Same issues as last week, rubbish contact in defence.

Bloody sh*t, where as the team gone that beat st helens, Warrington.
Very poor tonight

I don’t think size or intent is our problem, if anything it’s our intent that has us in second in the table. For me it’s not being able to make a break or create anything so close to the line.

Smith for me was also offside on Leeds last try, can’t believe he didn’t give it a second look.

How to play yourself out of the team Harry Smith. This is a horror show.