Apart from fifita in for walker and jowitt for MCB .


Think we will line up

Jowitt
Lynne
Arundel
Tupou
BJB
Miller
Finn
Fafita
Wood
England
Ashurst
Kirmond
Arona

Subs

Annikin
Hasson
Hirst
William /hadley

Grix to miss out

So, did MCB pick up a knock, or is he the fall guy for that performance.....?

He obviously wasn't the only one that hade a 'mare against Shudds...would have dropped Williams for Milky too, assuming he's fit ??

Nope, he certainly wasn't the only one, hence I feel it's a little unfair if he's the only one to carry the can, but of course we won't know until he picks his 17, and even then there can't be that many changes given the 19 announced. I suppose one way to look at it is, they have a point to prove after that performance, hopefully!

From Chester's post-match interview, I would have put money on Williams being dropped (and I'm not a betting man), so I'm guessing that Milky isn't fully fit yet ?

BJB and CB had mares, BJB far worse in my view. At least CB picked himself up in the 2nd half. I hope BJB has had the counselling he clearly needs after watching his implosion on Fri or we look forward to some more keystone cop moments

Seems strange that it's virtually the same squad give or take one or two.
Anyway, the coach knows best but if I was the coach I'd rattle them up if they cave in again, we don't want a repeat of last seasons shambles!

Every now and then a post which prob shouldn't make me laugh does lol

And after Friday if I didn't laugh I would cry

I'm not sure how many changes that it's sensible to make.
When you take account of injuries and the fact that most of our 19's aren't yet ready for SL, it could only ever be 2 or 3 changes.
Have to say that I'm very surprised that BJB is in there, he looked a broken man on Friday and with Leeds very likely to test him early doors, anything could happen.
Also, I know it's been a long running debate on here for most of the season but, Grix has looked knackered for a few weeks now and Jowitt should get his turn.
Arundell should play, with Lynn moved out onto the wing.

I agree, I also think since MCB got the wing birth after the TJ injury he has been the best of our wingers.
Very harsh on the kid if he is the only one to get dropped.

Agree although suspect we are trying to put a bit of size outside and although arundel does have the odd brain fart he's big and has a good ability to get the outside man away

Got a feeling Grix at fullback Jowitt on the wing

And we've got Thaler as ref. Is that the first time this season?

cc talks a good job theres noway he will drop Grix

I think Grix should be rested as he has looked tired recently.
He has not been good at organising tbe defence and rarely
does he contribute to the attack.
Personally I think his own lack of form has rubbed of on the team as he has been a leader this season.
This is no critcism of him as he has earned a rest.
I think the harder grounds will be to the benefit of Jowitt and we could do with his enthusiasm to make the breaks that will help to restore the confidence that was sadly lacking last week.
We are fortunate to now have a decent squad that we should use to keep players fresh.

Harder grounds?!


It's persisting it down here.

Tyler Randall not in the 19 why ?

Well for one, perhaps that the rumours that he has arrived were just speculation.

However if he is here then CC will have had a look at him in training and come to the conclusion he isn't ready

Burrow makes his return for Leeds and Garbutt returns after missing last week

Expecting this...

Golding
Briscoe
Watkins
Sutcliffe
Hall
McGuire
Moon
Cuthbertson
Parcell
Singleton
Ablett
Ward
JJB

Mullally
Garbutt
Delaney
Burrow

Keinhorst & Lilley to miss out

I don't have a good feeling about this one - they looked on fire in their last game, and we looked hapless; I hope I'm wrong.

You get the feeling that we will either be 50 points in the wrong direction or, grind out a narrow win
If we have the same calamities that we did against Shudds, Leeds will destroy us but, IF there is the positive reaction that you would expect, then, maybe it wont be a walkover.
Dropping MCB (assuming that he's not injured) has taken away our most potent attacking threat.
There is nobody in the Leeds team (or any other) that will stop him if he gets in space.

Yep you feel it could be a 1 point Trinity win or a 40 points Leeds win.

The Bookies think Leeds by 10.

Its a great feeling not having to worry about the effects of a loss against say a very good Hull KR or London in the middle 8`s. Thank goodness we are concerning ourselves with how our budget team of triers will fair against one of the form sides in the competition

So they are just a team of budget triers now are they - just for once belly give it a rest and stop letting the players off the hook.

A few weeks ago you were singing them to the heavens, show some integrity.

There is no reason why this squad shouldn't win a fair few games in the 8's they are more than good enough and you know it.

The problems deeper than that. We have produced a series of decent teams since 2004 yet everyone has bottled it. The last team that didn't was the 2004 team. I'd never bet against us in a relegation decider but to win a competitive prize winning game I wouldn't risk 50p.

Of course it's partly down to the players but there is also something wrong with the fabric of the club IMHO. Whatever it is it's deeper than the individual.

In all my time only McNally has managed to unlock the potential and that was only for one season. He's vilified now but maybe he spotted the real problem and was hounded out for his troubles, makes you wonder.

Why don't you read his post properly before trying to be controversial, he did not call them a team of budget triers, what he called them was a budget team of triers which is what they are as well you know, a team put together on a tight budget and well under the salary cap.
I'm sure he knows full well what they're capable of, all he is guilty of is comparing not being under the pressure of fighting for our lives in the m8s and wondering how we'll compare against a form team, show some integrity Jesus