Quote ="Karen"The 18th man doesn't come into effect until 3 players fail a HIA assessment, the chances of that are very slim so Tony obviously thought it was worth the risk. https://www.seriousaboutrl.com/super-le ... ays-67439/'" i was thinking more of a player going down in warm up then the 18th man would play.

Quote ="Karen"The 18th man doesn't come into effect until 3 players fail a HIA assessment, the chances of that are very slim so Tony obviously thought it was worth the risk. https://www.seriousaboutrl.com/super-le ... ays-67439/'" i was thinking more of a player going down in warm up then the 18th man would play.

PLEASE just keep Leeds to 12 points !!
that’s all we need to win

So the 21 man squad is out with one change Ligi Sao out and Davy Litten in.

1. Tex Hoy, 2. Adam Swift, 4. Liam Sutcliffe, 5. Darnell McIntosh, 7. Jake Clifford, 9. Danny Houghton, 10. Chris Satae, 11. Andre Savelio, 12. Jordan Lane, 13. Brad Fash, 14. Joe Lovodua, 15. Joe Cator, 16. Kane Evans, 17. Cam Scott, 19. Ben McNamara, 20. Jack Brown, 23. Josh Griffin, 25. Davy Litten, 26. Harvey Barron, 30. Scott Taylor, 33. Brad Dwyer.

So for me as per my earlier post I'd keep the same starting 13 and have a bench of Savelio, Brown, Evans and one of Lovodua/Houghton.

Nene Macdonald named in Leeds squad

Rhinos’ 21-man squad: Richie Myler, David Fusitu’a, Nene Macdonald, Ash Handley, Blake Austin, Aiden Sezer, Kruise Leeming, Zane Tetevano, Rhyse Martin, Cameron Smith, Jarrod O’Connor, Sam Lisone, Derrell Olpherts, Justin Sangare, Tom Holroyd, James McDonnell, Morgan Gannon, Sam Walters, Luis Roberts, James Donaldson, Leon Ruan.

Yeah same as you Chris. Think he will pick Houghton over Lovodua on the bench though

If anybody needs to drop to the bench it's lane. He's still flapping at some tackles and doesn't really gain ground after the tackle. Also the way mamo went round Macintosh was worrying. But all in all I believe we will get better.

agree ,you have highlighted two of our weaker players and its little wonder that edge is targeted.
Maybe Lane could miss out in favour of Lovodua leaving the bench space for Houghton.
Cant see McIntosh holding down the wing spot for much longer

I’d agree with that if Savelio had already played a game and/or Sao was in the 17 re dropping Lane. Also re McIntosh again I’d tend to agree if we had Mitch or Wynne fit. Though if Baron & Litten impress and progress well could see either them possibly pressuring McIntosh for a spot on the wing at some point.

Thankfully that doesn't happen very often either, unless you're Gaz on your big return to Leeds of course

But I've said for ages mcintosh was a liability

Yet again like Houghton not been good enough 9

People are following what I said about Mcintosh

Gotta say I was worried about Smiths subs on Sunday

Having both lovodua and Houghton on the bench together

Leaving dwyer on the bench until last 5 minutes along with Taylor and satae

Another 2 minutes we'd have lost Sunday

Hopefully a nice learning curve

Lane ran a good line once about 3 years ago and he’s been picked on that for a while

FC had 45 missed tackles - we must pick our best defenders who can also play Tonyball

Agree some people still see him as a "youngster" even though he's 25

Hasn't kicked on just a run of the mill player not good enough

That's our problem none of our youngsters last 10 years have been good enough for a top level club academy

Fash got our player of the year but isn't close to a international call up

Wasn't that long ago we had likes of Horne yeaman Cooke King coming through who were international class

A Super League first will occur tomorrow if Hull beat Leeds. Anyone with a memory like Leslie Welch?
Will be watching the match on TV tomorrow morning.

It'd be the first time we've won three away games in a row at Leeds in the Super League era.

That never happened though?

They was left on the bench most of the 2nd half

Ah so your initial post I quoted was hyperbole, gotcha

Wow, doesn't time fly?
10 years ago already that.
We had done the Otley Run in the afternoon courtesy of a hired mini-bus and a nominated driver.
We weren't in a very good condition by the time we reached Headingley and the Skyrack come the evening (an understatement

).
Was gutted when Gaz never made it out for kick-off and think we went on to get well spanked.
3 months re-hab for Gaz but he was to come back to lead us to the Golden Fleece 3 years later, then repeat.
Happy days.

Wow! That is truly Welchesque but not the statistic I was looking for which includes Hull and another team (not Leeds.)

Think Its fair to say even at this early stage this is an acid test game for us to see where we are as a team. Leeds last week looked poor against Warrington, granted Wire looked good but they dominated Leeds down the middle completely. I thought Leeds looked to haveno real direction or cohesion and missing Oledzki & Prior gone they look very vulnerable down the middle. Whilst I don't think Leeds will be as bad as they were last week I still think we should be able to dominate down the middle, as long as we play with the intensity and desire we did in the first half and sort the defence out in terms of stopping off loads and missed tackles.

If we aspire to be one of the competing clubs these are games need to start winning where as in the past we have slipped up and had a tonking ourselves.

Everybody was beating everybody start of last season.
Teams were cr@p one week then hammering someone the next at the start of last season
Would be nice to build some momentum but wouldn't be overshocked if Leeds bounce back and beat us tonight.
Early days.

Would it be the first time, in SL, that both Hull teams win their first two games?

Both Hull teams will be the top 2 in SL for the first time?

If it is shows how average both teams have been at times ( esp them )

Winning 2 opening games isn't much to shout home about

Think was 2009 when we won first 5 and ended up no where

System will not allow me to reply by "quote" to both posts so to mwindass....... As the Huddersfield v Warrington match is scheduled to finish before the Leeds game your statistic will be correct if Huddersfield and Hull win.

To GrahamBray...... Congrats. you win the Chocolates!