Sad to relate but the ref for this one is James Child.

The first time he's had a Leeds game in SL since the incident with Hardaker at Warrington last year, I believe? Entirely coincidental...

The RFL has not indicated the names of the lip readers they've appointed.

Mulhern in for Yates I think

Only change to the 19. Which means assuming the back line stays the same he will play with Keinhorst and Golding missing out.

Just a thought, might it be worth shifting Watkins back into the centre to try and get at Toby King, or is the expectation that Atkins will be recovered from injury and back at left centre?

Hardaker
Watkins
Ablett
Moon
Handley
Sutcliffe
McGuire
Cuthbertson
Aiton
Peacock
Ward
Delaney
Sinfield

Singleton
Mulhern
Achurch
Burrow

Would move Sinfield back to starting loose otherwise if Singleton starts then we're a bit bare on the bench with front row options (that he'll use properly). Achurch shouldn't be playing front row and Mulhern won't get big minutes if selected so we could do with Singleton starting the game on the bench.

Atkins not named, so yeah, just replace Yates with Mulhern.

Going on the sequence of at least the last 5 with them we're due a win......

If only it was that simple

You will have the game won by half time.. Our defence is awful out wide, your backs will fill their boots..

I just hope our guys don't think this way.

I'm not sure about starting Sinfield. I wouldn't want to lose the improved fluidity that the McGuire/Sutcliffe combo is providing. I think Sinfield simply being there from the start would upset the momentum and lead to our halves negating responsibility slightly of being the main pivots/ball handlers.
Plus, Warrington's pack have in the past regularly got on top of ours. Losing a forward capable of getting us metres won't help matters.

When Sinfeld came on vs Saints he didn't seem to take over and McGuire and Sutcliffe were still able to do their thing. If he's named at 13 and knows he'll be defending in and around the middle (higher tackle count) I can't see him overtaking things in attack.

Whilst Wire have big forwards, they do what Tony Smith teams like to do and that is play 1-13 not just relay on the forwards (which is Saints' bread and butter ATM especially with the injuries to their backs).

Also whilst Singleton would offer some advantages starting at loose, you'd lose them around the 20/30 mins mark when the substitutions have to start being made. You'd be looking again at the bench consisting of Burrow, Sinfield, Achurch and Mulhern. We know the latter won't get on for long and until the 2nd half probably, that'd leave you taking off Cuthbertson and Singleton for Sinfield and Achurch around the same time and you set yourself back in the forwards at another point in the game shortly before and after halftime. Singleton coming on for Cuthbertson/Peacock after 25 mins sounds a good change to me and keeps things going nicely.

South Stand sold out again. Omfg

Big game for us this week. I think. Great time to have such a test. Wire aren't afraid to play and they had a great game against Wigan last week even if they lost.

Winning this one will show us backing it up after a relatively tough run. After this we have 3 winnable games away to widnes and hudds and home to hull kr. Win those four and I think top spot is sewn up going in to magic weekend.

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