I'm personally glad he's playing. Should make more of an entertaining game. I love watching him play too. I can see why some of our fans would be annoyed but the disciplinary system is how it is. We just have to forget the past and get on with it. I do think a few of our boys will be trying to wind him up, but I'm sure your boys will be doing the same to Brough. I'm expecting fireworks. Hope it's a good Yorkshire battle.

Well with those disciplinary issues settled I'll go for

BJB
Briscoe
Watkins
Moon
Hall
Sinfield
McGuire
Singleton
R.Ward
Peacock
Clarkson
S.Ward
Delaney

Bailey
Leuluai
Sutcliffe
Walters

Want to try Leuluai off the bench, and not for the usual "he needs resting/less minutes" or even that Singleton needs starts. But because we lack impact from our subs so it would be interesting to see a currently in-form Leuluai come on around the 25-30 mins mark fresh.

Reckon what we will see though differing from what I've put above in the forwards/bench is...

Leuluai
R.Ward
Peacock
Delaney
S.Ward
Bailey/Singleton

Bailey/Singleton
Kirke
Clarkson
Sutcliffe

Leeds better have that backline wrapped in cotton wool at training this week.

One injury away from Stevie Ward in the centres again...

I'm betting on:

2. Ben Jones-Bishop
20. Tom Briscoe
3. Kallum Watkins
4. Joel Moon
5. Ryan Hall
13. Kevin Sinfield
6. Danny McGuire
8. Kylie Leuluai
29. Robbie Ward
10. Jamie Peacock
18. Chris Clarkson
15. Brett Delaney
16. Ryan Bailey

14. Stevie Ward
17. Ian Kirke
21. Liam Sutcliffe
23. Brad Singleton

I feel we need to try and go round this hudds. team tomorrow to get anything from this game.we have the strike in our three quarters to do it from anywhere so get it wide early,if we try and grind it out I see only one outcome.

I hope Ward (R) is given the opportunity to play his natural game. He looked a lot better towards the end of the Leigh game when he was allowed to scoot around a bit more. If we get the ball to Moon and Watkins quickly, then the game will be in our favour. If we carry on our current trend of karting the ball up the middle, then we could be in for a long night!

@Giantsrl: Leeds XIII: Jones-Bishop, T Briscoe, Watkins, Moon, Hall, Sutcliffe, Sinfield, Leuluai, Ward, Peacock, Ward, Delaney, Bailey

@Giantsrl: Leeds subs: Kirke, Clarkson, Briscoe, Walters

a good effort and could have nicked it at the death.

Not a great deal to complain about with so many front line players missing thought we stood up well.Sinfields kicking game was awful though, really shocking for a player of his standing and ability.

It was in the first half with his aerial kicks especially the out on full ones, had some good grubbers though (R.Ward had a good one also).

Oh to have had Hardaker at FB.

Again, the lack of runners in attack cost us, not enough players in motion running at space, we missed Ablett massively I thought.
It was a tough game but booth teams executed poorly, but Hudds controlled the ruck better than us, although I thought they got away with a hell of a lot of messing around at the PTB, but we didn't do enough to earn a quick PTB.
Individually, Watkins, Bailey, Robbie Ward and JP were decent, but I fear for us while Hardaker is out if BJB doesn't improve dramatically, he was shocking in just about every area IMO. Not enough impact from the bench either I thought, I would've started Singleton and brought Kylie on off the bench, Kirke offered nothing which is par for the course to be fair.

All in all despite many predicting a drubbing we really should have won that game but yet again our failure to turn field position into points let us down.

Quote of the day : Bill Arthur 'Here is Kirke now, a man mountain who always takes some stopping when he gets his hands on the ball'

On that performance i would be tempted to play Briscoe at full back and move BJB to wing.

And crabtree went on to score a try in a game they won by 2 points