On loan I assume according to one SirRichardAgar on twitter

We know how loyal BMc can be with selections:

Hardaker

Briscoe
Watkins
Moon
Hall

Sinfield
McGuire

Peacock
Aiton
Leuluai
Delaney
JJB
Ablett

Burrow
Ward
Bailey
Singleton/Achurch/Kirke
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The only way Sutcliffe gets in that 17 is if one of Sinfield/McGuire/Burrow don't.

It's only injuries in the first place that forced Mac's hand to give Sutcliffe some regular game time anyway.

The same goes for Alex Foster. Think all his games came in a big block and IIRC Bailey took his place for the run in.

I see him as a Paul Cooke type player, hopefully minus the being a total d1ck, alcohol problems, lack of application and general wasted talent.

Personally I can see the logic if Sutcliffe being at Wakefield, getting regular game-time and a bit more responsibility, I would keep him here though, take a bit of the pressure off him and give him more of a gentle progression to first grade. Im not sure that we should expect an 18 year old to be playing SL week in-week out. Especially in the pack if that’s where he ends up.

Besides, he couldn’t ask for a better mentor. For 16 years now Sinfield has apparently been a world class player trapped in a body not big enough for loose, not quick enough for half. Well Sutcliffe has the frame to be plenty big enough.

Is Sutcliffe Under 19s eligible in 2014 though?

He needs to be playing somewhere every week to refine his game and learn to be a more pivotal figure. If he's not going to get that at Leeds, then what is to be gained by keeping him training at Kirkstall but not playing?

Ideally, I'd like to see him go play in the Championship on dual-reg but understandably coaches at that level don't want to be relying on DR players as pivots because you never know whether they'll be available one week to the next.

So a move on loan to a SL side that are short of half-backs themselves might not be a bad alternative.

From the players that played in first team in 2013:

Liam Sutcliffe, Thomas Minns, James Duckworth in their final year for the U19s.

Alex Foster and Stevie Ward now full time first teamers.

Luke Briscoe is on the first team page on the Leeds Rhinos site, is in his last year as an U19.