What are our chances of being competitive? Good? Bad?

We're obviously going to be missing a few still, and this is Leeds.

It depends who we are able to call on to play. We badly missed Brown against Wigan, if he is able to play as he has indicated and we have a few more back such as Hock and maybe Cross, who would be up for a pop at his former club you would think.

Likewise the return of Marsh and Phelps to the centres would add to both our attack and defence.

It might just be our "St Helens" opportunity and if we can play as well at Leeds as we did at Saints then we have got to be in with a chance. Leeds' injury woes seem to be mounting, so I doubt we will have a better opportunity, although I have no doubt that as many of their fit players as possible will back up from the Exiles game!

I just hope we can get on the right side of the scoreline, to lose another nail biter would be hard to take!

Leeds 19 doesn't look too shabby! www.therhinos.co.uk/news/20656.php#.Ubxf1OcsmSo The squad in full is: 1. Zak Hardaker 2. Ben Jones-Bishop 4. Joel Moon 5. Ryan Hall 7. Rob Burrow 8. Kylie Leuluai 9. Paul McShane 10. Jamie Peacock 11. Jamie Jones-Buchanan 13. Kevin Sinfield (c) 17. Ian Kirke 18. Chris Clarkson 19. Mitch Achurch 21. Richard Moore 22. Jimmy Keinhorst 23.Brad Singleton 26. Liam Sutcliffe 27. Thomas Minns 28. Jordan Baldwinson

Leeds 19 doesn't look too shabby! www.therhinos.co.uk/news/20656.php#.Ubxf1OcsmSo The squad in full is: 1. Zak Hardaker 2. Ben Jones-Bishop 4. Joel Moon 5. Ryan Hall 7. Rob Burrow 8. Kylie Leuluai 9. Paul McShane 10. Jamie Peacock 11. Jamie Jones-Buchanan 13. Kevin Sinfield (c) 17. Ian Kirke 18. Chris Clarkson 19. Mitch Achurch 21. Richard Moore 22. Jimmy Keinhorst 23.Brad Singleton 26. Liam Sutcliffe 27. Thomas Minns 28. Jordan Baldwinson

Sinfield must be doubtful now after dislocating his thumb last night.

Without him they dont look so frightening.

According to McDermott, Sinfields out for 6 weeks. He has an op tomorrow.

As a Leeds Fan I'm looking forward to this game more with the fact we have 8 first teamers out injured. That's no disrespect to you guys btw, but I think tomorrow should be a competitive game and I'm looking forward to seeing how our younger guys go on.

Leeds will probably line up,

Hardaker
BJB
Keinhorst
Moon
Hall
Sutcliffe
Burrow
Kirke
McShane
Peacock
Achurch
Clarkson
JJB

Moore
Singleton
Baldwinson
Minns

Sinfield's out and Leuluai apparently isn't backing up as he was 50/50 for Friday as it was.

looking forward to the match have a good feeling about it come on the vikings

However you look at it, that's still a strong side. We will have a good chance if we can keep it close by halftime and hope that fatigue starts to set in on some of your players who played Friday.
I'm hopeful we can capitalise on this opportunity to beat a weakened Leeds team, though I'm not betting on it!

Leeds by 20-25 points

Moon could be out so that's 9 out if true. I agree though, it is still a pretty strong side and I would be disappointed if we lost. I certainly won't be making any excuses if we do though. There's some future stars in that team so we'll have to see how the handle themselves for the next month or so.

You should still beat is though and we still have a few missing.

When we throw the ball about a bit we look a really good side, but when we trundle up the middle we struggle.

Even though we are improved from last season,I still never feel confident for a decent performance,we just seem so inconsistant.

Too much one man rugby effects our team mate.We look better when play expansive rugby.

How we are drawing amazes me! Such a sloppy performance!
Penalties, dropped ball and poor choices - without them we'd be ahead! Hopefully Betts can calm them down and we can concentrate on some consistent sets.

Any danger of looking like putting 6 tackles

Too many errors and penalties......and as per defence is awful

I don't like to be negative, but the score line flattered us!
Yes it's good to be able to score long range tries, but what else do we have?
We have to carry the ball and make yards. Five and a kick. Play them in their half.

Clarkeys stats for 2nd half-

Leeds had the ball for 20 sets, we had 11.
Out of those sets we had just 10 play-of-the-ball in their 40!

Lost against Wigan Academy and Leeds missing at least 6 regulars, was hoping you'd win tonight

*10 regulars

Yawn

Your flair is enjoyable to watch and you score some cracking tries but Jesus wept... hold onto the ball sometimes and stop the stupid play the ball penalties. I noted you did both of those things at Saints last month and reaped the rewards. If you did it every week you'd be in the top 8.

We lack another good hooker with quick hands and ptb.Need to replace Isa,Leuluai,and our kicking game is awful.Composure and some big forwards also missing in the prop department.Sometimes our play is brilliant and Sky never mention Widnes players missing.Leeds still had class players on the pitch.

Yep only had ourselves to blame, Leeds played well though particularly in containing us in our 20 in the second half.

Too many basic errors in attack and defence robbed us of promising positions. The worst thing was losing the ball after we had scored, which we did at least twice, just when you want to consolidate and go again, we just handed the initiative over to Leeds.

Scored some great tries though, Mellor in particular showed a turn of speed I hadn't seen from him before.

On the plus side we were in the game for long periods and despite Leeds absentees it was a decent effort. Composure in critical areas though continues to be lacking despite having Brown on the field. Our kicking out of hand was poor as usual, a lot of work needed on that and as Clarkey said O'Carroll needs to make sure he has got decent studs in his boots when playing on grass!

Yep,another frustrating night,typical Vikings this season,from the sublime to the ridiculous,we just cannot defend to save our lives,too many soft errors in attack and defence.

Kicking game been poor all season.Need better composure and why was Leuluai doing a shoulder charge when Hardacker was in the goaline area?Need faster ptb and Flynn to replace Isa please.Pickgersgill and Kavs are average props.