My guess

is the squad will be...

1. Jamie Shaul 2. Mahe Fonua 3. Carlos Tuimavave 4. Josh Griffin 5. Fetuli Talanoa 6. Albert Kelly 7. Marc Sneyd 8. Scott Taylor 10. Liam Watts 12. Mark Minichiello 13. Gareth Ellis 14. Jake Connor 16. Jordan Thompson 17. Danny Washbrook 19. Steve Michaels 21. Sika Manu 22. Josh Bowden 25. Jansin Turgut 28. Brad Fash

www.hullfc.com/news/2017-04-12-k ... eeds-clash No Houghton, Kelly and Ellis in the squad

www.hullfc.com/news/2017-04-12-k ... eeds-clash No Houghton, Kelly and Ellis in the squad

Does that mean no Houghton, Kelly and Ellis in the squad, or no Houghton, Kelly and Ellis in the squad?

No houghton or green

Need to read it again.

Kelly and Ellis are both in,

Based on that squad I'd go

Shaul
Fonua
Carlos
Griffin
Talanoa
Kelly
Sneyd
Taylor
Washbrook
Watts
Mini
Manu
Fash

Bowden
Tomo
Connor
Ellis

No, I said no Houghton, Ellis and Kelly in the squad. Are we really getting down to grammar? As per the link, both Kelly and Ellis are in the squad. Should be a close and good game. (crosses fingers for not another Salford score)

Fair enough, a bit confusing though you have to admit

Connor doing a 9 stint then I'd guess. Suprised he's not been touted for this role already
Tough defender..Good passer..Got a kick..physically tough

Shaul
Fonua
Tuimavave
Griffin
Talanoa
Kelly
Sneyd
Taylor
Washbrook
Bowden/Watts
Minichiello
Manu
Thompson

Watts/Bowden
Ellis
Connor
Turgut

Personally don't see the hype with Turgut, but think he offers a little more than Fash.

Leeds Squad:

1 Ashton Golding
2 Tom Briscoe
3 Kallum Watkins
4 Joel Moon
5 Ryan Hall
6 Danny McGuire
7 Rob Burrow
8 Keith Galloway
9 Matt Parcell
10 Adam Cuthbertson
11 Jamie Jones-Buchanan
13 Stevie Ward
14 Liam Sutcliffe
15 Brett Delaney
17 Mitch Garbutt
20 Anthony Mullally
24 Jordan Baldwinson
25 Jordan Lilley
28 Mikolaj Oledzki

Strong squad, still lacking at halfback, which is where we have the edge hopefully.

Big plus that Ablett is out, always plays well against us and scores

Yes, I agree. Hope we put in a good shift!

Can Connor play centre? If so I'd play him instead of Griffin. He needs to spend a month with Yeaman to show him what he should be doing

Ablett and Keinhorst are massive losses for us. Expecting Golding and Galloway to drop out for this one, can't see Golding shoulder recovering and think two games over Easter for Galloway to return would be too much.

Sutcliffe
Briscoe Watkins Moon Hall
McGuire Lilley
Garbutt Parcell Baldwinson
JJB Delaney
Cuthbertson

Burrow Ward Oledzki Mullally

Probably be something totally different on game day but that's how I would go if Golding is out. If not, Golding to FB, Cuthbertson to P, Sutcliffe to lF, Garbutt to bench for Oledzki.

Personally dont like Connor on the bench but makes sense to cover at 9
I like Ellis off the bench provides the impact we need.
Fash deserves another outing but think Radford will go for Turgut who has a bit more pace

Yes. He was starting centre v wire and wigan and played most the game there v widnes

Not sure why you're so against Connor on the bench. In 8 games we've lost a back to injury in 4 of them.

Simple reason is four forwards on the bench served us well last season and i see no reason to change.
We have lost bench impact since Pritchard went so for me we need to have another forward.
I see what you mean about losing a back to injury and thats just bad luck and coincidence that Connor was on the bench but Radford seems to want to find a place for Connor for the wrong reason as he is just a utility player and nothing special.
That said Griffin is a major disappointment and giving Connor a run at left centre wouldnt surprise me.

Defensively .. I agree..

As yet he isn't doing quite enough going forward to outweigh his defence, but it's early days yet.

I thought he played well on the wing one game this year went Talanoa went off (Saints)

At one point I'd like to see this as our backs

Fonua
Carlos
Connor
Griffin

Slowest 3/4 line in history

Will be faster than the one that plays on Friday and most of last season.

So you are wrong Jake.

I'm never wrong, ask my wife.

Anyway, back to your selection, you'd play players out of position and leave out our most effective winger? Are you peter gentle or richard agar?

Talanoa our most effective winger, not sure I agree, too slow, poor defensively and poor under the high ball, Fonua is a better winger IMO. Talanoa is great at making yards but I'd like more from my winger, you talk about our backs being slow then big up Talanoa

Griffin is among our best metre men. 9 plus metres a carry. Far in front of anyone else in the backs
Not his fault our attack has been lacking to really release him. For a half v wigan we were flowing and he had gelling on toast
Defensively he ain't gonna be as good as yeamo. Few are. But I've found most of what he's been blamed for a bit laughable. A winger got 3 tries scored outside of him and it was griffins fault?
Salford he was gash granted. But so was everyone. The left side is much the same as the right last yr. It's a bit out of sync but I've not seen too many one on one misses. A couple stand out but I've also seen Mini and Sneyd do it too