I usually skip the god-awful congested M1 bit of that and do M25, M40, M6.
You get to count the many Red Kites between Beaconsfield services and the Oxford junction too.

First year in a while I've had to miss this game. Just a bit to far on a friday night for our 6 month old sadly.

Shame as it's one of the best away trips.

Fingers crossed anyway.

I've got to contest with a 10 minute downhill walk to the club to watch on telly. Tough Part will be the drunken uphill walk with a kebab later on. Who am I kidding, I'll get a taxi.

I am predicting a leeds win on friday.

Just got round to watching the Wigan v Wire game from the other week - If Wire put the same kind of performance in then we're gunna have a bad time.

Keeping Wire to under 20 will be a tough ask and TBH (and as much as I'd like to think otherwise) I don't think we will. Wire by 18

It will be really interesting to see how the youngsters perform against top quality opposition. This will be a real test of their physical and mental toughness. We must not expect them to match the defence and metres of the likes of the missing JJB and Delaney so the points against stat should continue its recent progress. However on attack we can expect them to show their quality.

This is also a big game for the likes of Clarkson and Kirke who have the experience to step up to the plate and prove they are worthy to remain in the squad.

For us to win IMO we will have to use our attack as our best form of defence.

They would have to go some to make less meters per carry than JJB. Perhaps you meant work rate and carries.

No I meant metres as he has made the second most of any Leeds forward. Remember he has achieved this on top of being our top tackler

So you did mean carries then. And yes I know he is our top tackler, which is why I didn't pick you up on the defence statement.

If I had meant carries I would have stated carries. Our top 2 metre makers are also our top 2 for carries no suprises there. Players can make metres in different ways ... for fullbacks and wingers they get some easy metres while the forwards have to graft to get them. But we still need the forwards to make those hard metres each game.

How we are at the minute, way too soft down the middle. If we lose the ruck early doors it could be a long night.

Clarkson needs a big game.

We do. And also notible that those same two players, are also our top error makers and penalty conceeders. But of course that goes over your head I presume, even though you spoke about defence?

Two players increasing their carries by 3 per game would make the additional yardage that JJB does in a game. Your point said we would miss it, which is correct, but easily sorted by sharing workload. Whether that sorts defence also, I wouldn't give any guarantees on.

He was down as missing 7 tackles against Widnes. Not good enough, especially for someone who only really brings solid defence to the table. As you say, big game for him as he's currently been leapfrogged by Singleton and Moore in squad forward status when others are back fit.

Tonight is more about the youngsters gaining more experience than the result imo.
As a team we can go there with no pressure on us and give the young lads the freedom to express themselves.

What does go right over my head is the guff you keep spouting. For your information the following are our top error makers

So which 2 players will be doing this simple task then? and will they also be stepping up the number of tackles, kick chases and carries at the same time?