Wakey love nothing more than coming to headingley to try and cause an upset. Take them lightly at our peril. Complacency is our enemy in this one. Play well we win without a doubt but we must be disciplined and remain fired up to kick start our season.

Fusitua is a major problem - his body language is awful , and at times , he just does not look interested .
For one Saints kick to him , if you watch carefully , he has his back to the ball and he makes no attempt to catch - stands there uninterested .
He is slow - he could not outrun Connie over 20 yards near the end of the game , and there is no intensity in his game . If ever a player is going through the motions , this is it . If he wants to go home , we should bite the bullet now and move on.

For a player thats not bothered he makes an awful lot of metres, he has a ‘relaxed’ demeanour thats his style.

What do you mean ‘bite the bullet’ are we going through that whole thing of thinking you can just get rid of contracted players?

Agreed, think he’s been one of our more consistent performers, especially out of the back field, no real glaring errors and finished the one chance I can remember I’m having. I really don’t know where the impression he doesn’t do his yardage work comes from tbh, often gets a fast ish ptb too.

I do wish we’d kick to him more in good ball, seem to remember him being a real threat through that method for Tonga. Maybe with a bit more confidence in Sezer we might see it.

Bentley, Newman and Johnson in the squad

And Wakefield's most prolific scorer sadly out for the season if reports are correct.

I would hope McDonnell would retain his spot given Gannon misses out, however, we will have to see.

Should be an easy win for you lot. We have no attack, a leaky defence and a PE teacher for a coach.

I would play him instead of Donaldson.

Terrible luck for young Murphy. Hope he recovers fully.

I know its just one game but McDonnell looks like a far better all round player than Donaldson, who is such a limited player. He always puts in a big effort, but injuries aside I don't see how he'd get into the 17.

Huh, that's nowt. We ran with JJB for a while. Like having an RE teacher for a coach..

Can't remember the last time we had a full fit backline squad numbers 1-7 available to play together. I think Rohan will go for this match day squad

1. Myler
2. Fusitu'a
3. Newman
4. Macdonald
5. Handley
6. Austin
7. Sezer
8. Holroyd
9. O'Connor
10. Tetevano
11. Mcdonnell
12. Martin
13. Smith

Subs
14. Bentley
15. Lisone
16. Walters
17. Johnson

I think Fusitu'a & Macdonald will be our right side & Newman & Handley our left side we've definitely got some strike in our backline hopefully we get to see it at full force Friday night

I too would go with that 17 JR.
Leeds Rhinos 21-man squad: Richie Myler, David Fusitu'a, Harry Newman, Nene Macdonald, Ash Handley, Blake Austin, Aidan Sezer, Zane Tetevano, James Bentley, Rhyse Martin, Cameron Smith, Jarrod O'Connor, Sam Lisone, Derrell Olpherts, Tom Holroyd, James McDonnell, Sam Walters, Luis Roberts, James Donaldson, Corey Johnson, Leon Ruan.

Also good that we still have Sangare, Leeming, Gannon, Olpherts and Tindall to consider next week and have Mik and Hooley still in with a shout not long after that.

We've actually got a good squad with some decent competition for places. I think we'll see Rohan picking players on form and rotating the squad. Players should have to play their way back into the team as it should be. We've had too many years of players walking back in because there was nobody to realistically take their spot

Sangare injured?