With the exception of no speed, I think this is a bit of an exaggeration. We've got plenty of strength in Ava, Prior, Oledski, Ward, Smith and Martin. We’ve got pLenny of skill in Gale, Lui and McLelland. The thing we are lacking most is speed.

Fully agree

Whilst we're not the quickest in superleague I'm not going to lose sleep over it.if our pack and pivots do their job we have enough pace to compete.

Good at chasing back to stop breakaway tries are they?

Seriously I get your point, while pace isn’t critical, it is important.

But surely every team that concedes a break away try isn't slow because most teams will concede them at some point in a season.As agar said it's not the pace chasing back that's the trouble its the structure of our defense chasing the kick that was more concerning. Your right, we're clearly not fast, but for me we have bigger fish to fry right now.

Spot on, Donaldson is probably on less than half the wage of many first team players. He is behind Martin, Mellor, Ward, Smith and Sutcliffe in the back row. Who do people expect from our 6th choice back rower to be? A current international. If the youngster are better than him they’ll get in the team ahead of him, if not they can keep improving at Fev, Bradford or in the Reserve team.

I am not one who has a problem with Donaldson, however in answer to your question, in view of the new dual registration rules, why did we need a 6th choice stuck on the books? We could have utilised the dual reg from Fev if it came to the situation of having to use a so called 6th choice.

May have answered your own question there Gotcha, 'new rules', leeds will have been tied to his contract before it was decided?

Also, we can only dual reg one at any time from Fev. Might be best keeping that slot in anticipation of needing cover in the backs where we seem thinnest on the ground right now.

Rearranged for Tuesday 28th April, with Salford moving to Sunday 3rd May.

We don't really have anybody that could be spared from the pack at Fev, we have a bit of depth in the backs for sure but last week in the Challenge Cup we effectively went with a two-man bench because we had no forwards left - it's partly because Leeds have so much depth in the pack that we haven't signed much depth ourselves, whereas we have signed plenty of cover in the backs because we know you have little depth there.

Fev outside backs - Hall, Blackmore, Carey, Worthington (loan), Hardcastle, Gale, plus Minns, Whylie & Render who are all currently injured, plus 4 reserves.
Fev halves - Chisholm, Jouffret & Sweeting
Fev forwards Susino, Bussey, Harrison, Ferres, Lockwood, Cooper, Albert (loan), Parata, plus Davies, Ferguson & Day who are all currently injured

It will be interesting to see what changes are made from the 17 chosen to play Toronto back in march, I think Leeming will be in included and possibly Tom Briscoe, not sure Stevie Ward is ready to play yet and same with Jack Walker.

i reckon it will be
Myler
L.Briscoe
Newman
Hurrell
Handley
Lui
Gale
Ava
Dwyer
Oledsjki
Mellor
Martyn
Prior

Leeming
Cuthbertson
Cam Smith
Donaldson

From the injury update we've been given i think Agar will probably go with something like this.

Myler
T.Briscoe
Newman
Hurrell
Handley
Lui
Gale
Seumanufagui
Dwyer
Prior
Mellor
Martin
Smith

Subs

Leeming
Cuthbertson
Oldezki
Donaldson.

hasn't Seumanufagui just arrived back, maybe not ready to start? maybe a bench spot?