Especially away to Saints, we've taken some beatings over there over the years.......the words "red" and "hair" spring immediately to mind.

Both Wilkin and Amor charged for us. Add that to the injuries and you should slaughter us.

Hardaker
Briscoe
Watkins
Ablett
Hall
Sinfield
McGuire
Kylie
Aiton
JP
Delaney
Ward
Bailey

Burrow
JJB
Singleton
Kirke

1. Zak Hardaker
2. Ben Jones-Bishop
3. Kallum Watkins
20. Tom Briscoe
5. Ryan Hall
13. Kevin Sinfield
6. Danny McGuire
8. Kylie Leuluai
9. Paul Aiton
10. Jamie Peacock
11. Jamie Jones-Buchanan
12. Carl Ablett
15. Brett Delaney

7. Rob Burrow
14. Stevie Ward
16. Ryan Bailey
23. Brad Singleton

I think this is a big game for Leeds. It will be the biggest test of the season so far.

There are no "must win" games at this stage, but I think we could do with delivering a decent performance. Saints have probably been the best team in the competition so far.

With the amount of players we have missing it won't be half as much of a test as it would have been. I fancy you lot by 12.

I agree, with the amount of key players you have missing, we really should have too much over the full 80 minutes.

That said, i would much rather be seeing both sides going at each other with full strength teams to see where we are at, it would have been a real belter given current form.Never mind, it looks like we will more than likely be seeing each other again when the stakes are much higher later in the year.

Agree with all of that mate. I had been really really looking forward to this game up until last Monday when I found out the extent of our injuries v Catalans. It's looking like we will have Walsh, Turner, Wilkin, Amor, LMS missing with doubts over Hohaia, Wheeler, Percival, Lomax. The first 5 will definitely miss out.

It would have a fantastic game had both sides been at full strength but as you said, we will most probably meet again at the business end of the season.

Saints arent at full strength but they are still more than capable of getting a result against us.

Amor, Wilkin, LMS and Walsh are definitely a loss for them, Walsh especially but they have pretty deep depth in the pack, Roby is always a quality player, Lomax can move forward. We shouldnt discount them, they wont put a bad team out.

I seem to recall Saints coming to HQ in a cup game with Wilkin at scrum half once, to much high hope and expectation.

I think Wilkin was then man of the match in a Saints win.

I take nothing for granted against Saints, ever.

Unless it's a Grand Final.

It's difficult to guess our 17 with question marks over a few. Best case scenario injury-wise would mean a team not too dissimilar to this:

Lomax
Makinson
Jones
Percival
Swift
Wheeler
Hohaia
Laffranchi
Roby
Walmsley
Manu
Flanagan
Wellens

Masoe
Soliola
Greenwood
Walker

However as I said earlier there are question marks over a few, Hohaia and Walmsley especially, so young half-back Lewis Charnock may get thrown in and then there's the likes of Luke Thompson and Greg Richards to come into the pack if needs be.

I think we will be competitive at least, we certainly won't roll over whatever 17 we put out.

that '2nd team' you are talking about putting out would beat most sides in this league

i think Saints are playing a bit of a blinder here because all the expectation seems to be on Leeds, Nathan Brown is bigging us up as favourites and the fans expectations are well managed. Anything better than 14-20 point win for Leeds can be spun as a brave performance, but that team is a good one and in with a decent chance to win

According to McDermott, Moon has a slight chance but probably won't play.

Also when asked he said Bailey wasn't ill, he just wasn't selected.

I'd go

Hardaker
BJB
Watkins
Briscoe
Hall
Sinfield
McGuire
Leuluai
Aiton
Peacock
JJB
Ablett
Delaney

Burrow
Ward
Singleton
Bailey (Kirke, if Bailey's on the naughty step)

A Super League coach with a bit of mind-games and propaganda before a big game? Surely not!!

Exactly, it might be a weakened Saints team but it won't be a weak team by any means. Key for Saints, like we saw Hudds do, is to have a big game from their three quarters defensively and limit the impact of our back 5 in attack.