Bailey got cramp. That could have cost us. Yet more bewildering use of subs from macdumbo

Course he did

Well done Rhino's on the win....was a very good effort from us, just came up short in the end. Hope you go on and win it now!

If you believe that, I have a money tree you can buy.

He had to make the 2 inter-chances to accomodate the additional 2,000 fans that arrived for the last 10 minutes - according to the announcer, when it was later chanced from 7K to 9K

Ok. I'll pay 200 sickles for it.

That is exactly what I said when someone started piping up behind me, Who would you have wanted to take off to squeeze them in? For me, Lunt has to start to be effective.

I thought Clarkson looked a lot better in attack in the short time he was on which is good, albeit against an already well beaten Wakefield side.

Less of Lunt worked for me.

I'm starting to think we might as well not have him on the bench next week and add Kirke to the 17 that played against Wakey. Start with him and get him out of the way after 25-30 mins or not at all. Usually Leeds start clicking in games from 30 mins onwards so at no point after that is it then a good idea to bring on a steady hooker in place of a match winner Burrow, or have him fill some other role. He isn't going to sub Burrow off during playoff games so i see no point of a interchange hooker, if Burrow picked up an injury mid-game we'd just have to plug the gap by switching Ward to 6 and Sinfield to 9, a pretty decent Plan B.

Leeds stacking bench with 4 forwards has worked well before.

We have options as you highlight.

2nd half against Wakie we did 2 simple things well: won the ruck with good quick PTB's and an improved general kicking game. 2 areas we have struggled with for some reason this year. They are simple staples of the game. Just need to couple that with some 80 minute defending.

When Leeds do that they give themselves a much better chance and foot hold in games and can be hard to beat.

I like this option - especially against the Frenchies. If we were to pick up an injury we just about have every position covered with the players that are already out there.

I think a big bench would be the way to go on Friday.

Agree we do need some size on the bench against the french

Or a fresh interchange dummy-half to run around the tired marker defence from the thirty minute mark onwards?

You could have Usain Bolt at dummy half, if you're not winning the collision it makes not a jot of difference.

Maybe B-Mac may use Keinhorst on the bench again...similar to our last game there as it would in theory give us the option of 4 forwards with Ablett able to swap in after the opening 20-25. Keinhorst and Hall had a strong game last time in france on the left and it is known as a tough place to play.

To be honest, lots of options with Ward, Keinhorst, Kirk, Bailey and obviously the decision with Kylie will also impact the selection and interchange options.

Could be an interesting one.... I think we will nick it in the last 10 minutes......looking forward to a good game

would go with a bench of Ward, Griffin, Kirke & Clarkson