Morning all,

Next Sunday Keighley will be playing the Rhinos reserves/academy side at Cougar Park. I'm sure everyone knows about the issues we've had over the last few months and this will be our first and only pre-season friendly of 2019 and will certainly be an emotional day for Keighley fans. We found out last week that our club was 3 days away from disappearing completely, so we are all looking forward to this game!

This match will be for the "Derek Hallas Trophy"; the inaugural match - the trophy will in future be presented to the winners of every Keighley Cougars - Leeds Rhinos match.

Derek Hallas is the greatest ever player to have played only for Keighley and Leeds in this country. (Derek did play for Parramatta in Australia). He also represented Great Britain.

Derek is now in his 80's but it is hoped he will be at Cougar Park to present his trophy to the winning captain. Give him the welcome back he deserves!

We hope some of you can make it over next week, you will all be made very welcome.

Prices:
Adults-£8
Concessions-£5
Under 12s- Free

Think i will venture over to support the lads and Keighley. Thanks for the info.

Much appreciated Marty. Forgot the most important bit...KO is at 15:00

Leeds up 18-12 at HT. Corey Johnson made 2 tries and Waite-Pullan looks very good in 2nd row, big and mobile. The 19s pack this year should be outstanding.

Think Waite-Pullen is too old for 19’s. Bit surprised he’s not on loan at Fev to be honest.

Leeds won 46-24 in end. Newman moved to full back in 2nd half.

19s play Hull away in a friendly in 2 weeks and then their season starts. They should have a good season.

Not to distract on thread, but I have just been at Fev. Singleton good strong game. But Cam Smith fantastic, MOM and squatting players off for fun, great footwork, plenty offloads. Way too good for this level. Walters played centre and looked terrible

Cam Smith should be in our 17 said it all pre-season & stand by it.

That’s great to hear. And, with Crosby coming back I wonder whether Singleton stays out for a wee while, and Smith goes in. Could swap out Sutcliffe and Donaldson potentially to make way.

It was clear Singleton was under new instructions to change his game, and rightly so. Played 60 straight minutes also. He ran strongly, sometimes twice a set, and none of that crappy diagonal run back to the ruck, that IMO has ruined his game. He ran straight and strong, and some passes straight at the line.

Spoke to Smith after the match, and he said he and Singleton only trained with Fev first time on Thursday night. Smith was so damn good.

The PNG scrum half looked pretty good too.

Please don't tell me Cam Smith played well it will ruin my weekend.

Well is an understatement. You know I have always been a big fan, but today was really pleasing to see. I hope he hasn’t been let down by the Leeds coaching, and they were there to watch.

I think playing with his brother though was a big influence, seemed to enjoy it. Didn’t realise Daniel was there also until today.

I think Sir Kev and Furner was as Keighley. I didn't see them but was told they had asked for tickets.

Cam will no doubt be pushed further down pecking order with JJB and Ablett back soon.

Should be announced who is going over to Keighley on loan this week. Won’t be surprised if it’s the England Academy guys.

Waite-Pullan and Alex Sutcliffe will have to play somewhere.