Well, what a game this promises to be!

Being the southern exile I am, there are few games that seem to stir interest down here, but a fair few people are saying how much they are looking forward to the game.

Hopefully Saints will have a couple of the injured players back (Amor in particular is huge for us) and a few of the out of form lads step up (Roby and Turner in particular have been very out of sorts). Bit worried we may have some underdone players.

How are Leeds shaping up? Any injuries?

I'm hoping we'll be something like:

Lomax
Makinson (picked up a knock in the Widnes game)
Percival (not played since the Salford game in Feb)
Turner
Swift (missed the last couple)
Hohaia
Walsh
Amor (not played since the Hudds cup game)
Roby
Walmsley
Soliola
Wilkin
LMS (sorely tempted to drop him as he's been terrible recently!)

Masoe
Savelio
Wellens
Greenwood/Richards/Flanagan (in that order)

how do you rate masoe? big lad but can't say i've been impressed as yet

Improving every game. Apparently had his best game yet against Widnes albeit I didn't see the match.

There is no question he is struggling for fitness, but he is getting noticeably fitter with each passing week, I think he'll be a real asset as the season rolls on.

I also think he will benefit from having Amor back in the pack as we have looked at our best with Amor/Walmsley starting matches and Masoe helps ensure we don't have a big drop off in impact when they are spelled.

I don't think we would have won the Cas game without Masoe.

If Saints defend like they did against Cas, Wigan and Widnes, we could win by 30+ points. If they defend like they did against us, they will win.

We really need to up out back up play and 2nd phase, last time we played we allowed saints to shepherd us up blind alleys and wasted lots of good possession and breaks.

Reckon our likely team will be:

Hardaker

Briscoe
Watkins
Moon
Hall

Sinfield
McGuire

Peacock
Burrow
Leuluai
Ablett
Delaney
Bailey

Sutcliffe
Achurch
Singleton
Kirke

Very unlucky for BJB but it's 6 into 5 in the backs and the only way he gets a bench spot is if we rejig the backs when he comes on with Hardaker to centre, Moon to stand-off, Sinfield spelling hooker and I doubt that'll happen.