How's your team looking for this week? Anyone else due back?

We have lost Senior and Burrow is still not fit. Buderus and Bailey will be in the squad this week though.

Don't know the extent of the injury to Rooney, possibly back.
Snitch possibly out.
But you never know with JK with regard to injuries; cue Vastman.

Nope.

It's looking like same again for us assuming that Snitch is fit. So who will be your centres, I think we may just have an edge there this week, don't think Sinfield at s/o does you any favours either so if we can go into the game with the same belief that we did against Wigan we might be in with a shout although TBH a good performance and not getting a tanking would be acceptable for most of us I think. Not many would have expected any points at all from the first two games so anything from this one would be a massive bonus to us, we can live in hope and history dictates that we have more chance with it being at your place than at ours.

Leeds should be something like this:

Smith
Donald
Watkins
Gibson
Hall
Sinfield
McGuire
Bailey
Diskin
Peacock
Jones-Buchanan
Lauitiiti
Ablett

Buderus
Leuluai
Burgess
Kirke

We have Webb, Senior, Burrow, Eastwood out.

We should be something like this:

Blaymire
Blanch
Gleeson
Martin
Halley
Grix
Obst
Stosic
Drew
Wilkes
Snitch (hopefully)
Ferguson
Demetriou

Bibey
Bibb
Pitts
Henderson

If Snitch is out it looks more than likely that part timer Blake will come in on the bench with Pitts probably pushed up in to the starting 13

Missing for us - Atkins Peterson Rooney Brough Sculthorpe Latu Moore George Murphy Soutrhernwood. Possibly Snitch as mentioned.

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Dont need him Adam wrap him in cotton wool until salford game another week will do no harm

Isn't Blake an Hooker? If snitch is out I think we will after take another dip into the academy and get a forward.

We really could do with Rooney back this week at least on the Bench because we are asking a lot of Brad Drew to do back to back 80 mins. After all the guy is 33 and I can't see the conditions been as bad this Friday. The game will probably be at a faster speed, If we have any chance of a sniff we need to have rotating hookers on the pitch.

On the subject of injuries, does anyone know exactly what is wrong with Danny Sculthorpe, I know we were told his wrist but no body said how long or we to just keep guessing?

Rooney's dithering and failure to create anything in attack has caused us more problems than having Drew play for 80 minutes would IMO. I also thought that all three playmakers played very well together on Sunday so would be loathe to see changes made there simply because a so called start player was back available, and we would be taking a big chance that he was actually fit anyway so bringing him in could a bigger gamble than taking the chance on Drew lasting another 80.
Our problems started last season when we unsettled a winning side by bringing back players that were not match ready, I would hope that JK has learned a lesson from that. If we do need another hooker then let's bring a hooker in as a direct replacement rather than bringing another stand off in and re organising the whole team half way through the game to accomodate him.

Will you celebrate like you have won the league like you did on Boxing day when you beat our academy?

When you win the Cravendale Festive challenge back to back come back and talk to us!

Who cares about the superleague?

THAT'S WHY WE'RE CHAMPIONS!
THAT'S WHY WE'RE CHAMPIONS!
THAT'S WHY WE'RE CHAMPIONS!
THAT'S WHY WE'RE CHAMPIONS!

Totally agree with that. Rooney has a long way to go two achieve his place back he has been looking clueless for a long time now he must try two get some form back in the reserves until deserving of a first team spot.

My main issue with Rooney is that bloody inside pass he always does!

He's a fantastic support player and is normally the first person backing up when we make a clean break, but when we're about 5-10 metres out he always use the inside ball.

If he dummied it once, i reckon he'd be able to get over as the whole defence wouldn't be ready for it!

He's such a confidence player that if he makes one mistake at the begninning of the match it tends to haunt him for the rest of the game!

Well it's our academy so it would be a great win!

Yes the main area I really think Rooney is a asset is his support play he reads the game well.

lol

We will have to belt it out on Friday that

My men to watch in Fridays encounter are [url=http://superleague.co.uk/statistics_player.php?hs1=2009&hp1=1097&hs2=2009&hp2=1129&stat=tries&season=2009Brad Drew and Ali Lauiti'iti.[/url Both game breakers and both coming off good games last week.

Drew is a thinker, a schemer. He will play and play behind the line and then BANG... He has made a 50 metre break and passed to the support player and you are counting the points. He controls the shape of the Wakefield play and when he is on form, so are they.

Lauiti'iti seems to be getting involved a lot more these days and that is a sign of good things to come for Leeds. He attacks the line and very rarely gets knocked back. He also doesnt get put down very often either giving himself time to promote the ball. 110m and 5 offloads last Friday tells its own story and this with a quiet 2nd half too. When he is on the pitch Leeds look a hell of a lot more dangerous down the right side.

Yeah I have gone for Drew as key man for Fridays game... See link below

Great minds ay

We haven't lost Senior, he's had a knock but is being monitored throughout the week.

McClennan said he was very doubtful and I think he wants to play Ash anyway so he knows who to pick for the WCC.

Not sure I'd be particularly happy with Gibson and Watkins in the centres.

Just to back that up here's the squad for Friday:

The 19 man squad in full is:
2. Scott Donald
3. Lee Smith
5. Ryan Hall
6. Danny McGuire
8. Kylie Leuluai
9. Danny Buderus
10. Jamie Peacock
11. Jamie Jones Buchanan
12. Ali Lauitiiti
13. Kevin Sinfield
14. Matt Diskin
16. Ryan Bailey
17. Ian Kirke
18. Carl Ablett
19. Luke Burgess
20. Ashley Gibson
22. Danny Allan
23. Kallum Watkins
27. Dane Manning

So it looks like a very young backline for Leeds with only Donald over 22 years.

Smith Hall Watkins Gibson Donald