I'm all for resting players but changing the team en mass doesn't offer much other than game time for rising stars.

Pete Smith says Sinfield's being rested, so if Ward's in the centre maybe this does mean we'll see Hardaker at 6.

Hardaker

BJB
Watkins
Ward
Hall

McGuire
Burrow

Leuluai
Aiton
Kirke
Ablett
JJB
Singleton

Minchella
Achurch
Mulhern
Clarkson

Team has been announced

Hardaker
BJB
Watkins
Ward
Hall
Maguire
Burrow
Luelai
Aiton
Kirke
Ablett
JJB
Singleton

Achurch
Minichella
Clarkson
Mulhern

Cue William's attention seeking posts about Ryan Hall......

Who?

Hall was tremendous tonight, because he's a tremendous player. Without doubt the best wing I have seen pull on a Leeds shirt, with the posdible exception of Grothe. But he barely counts with less than 20 games for us.
Consistently outstanding.

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Tremendous (adjective)

very great in amount, scale, or intensity.

synonyms: very great, huge, enormous, immense, colossal, massive, prodigious, stupendous, monumental, mammoth, vast, gigantic, giant, mighty, epic, monstrous, titanic, cosmic, towering, king-sized, king-size, gargantuan,

Which is kind of what William's being telling us all along

On a serious note, I'd go along with your views on Hall.

Tremendous? He scored three tries, one that others probably wouldn't have scored, and he made three other excellent runs. Defensively he was like a child yet again, very poor, and his handling of defensive kicks are completely opposite to attacking ones, in that he gets it so wrong.

Even against such a poor side, Hardaker and Watkins show us again just how much classier these two are to others and would be extremely difficult to replace. Any club owner with any sense would be begging to these players right now to ensure they are long term.

Was pleasantly surprised with Mulhern, looked strong defensively, which is the first thing to get right.

Moon out - Hat-trick for Hall.

Just saying.

Apart from one contested Bomb that they knocked on anyway how many others did he get so wrong and in what way was he defending like a child??

He didn't and he wasn't. But you know, facts and reality have to be altered to fit the agenda don't they.

Just watching the game back and the one stand-out Leeds player (for all the wrong reasons) was Stevie Ward.

I know it was his first run-out at centre but his handling and decision making last night was awful. I really like Ward and think his a legend in the making but things just weren’t happening for him last night. I’m sure it was just a one-off but he can’t afford too many performance of that quality and expect to keep a shirt.

I am pretty sure had he not scored three try's you wouldn't be asking that.

Agree with that. Whatever he tried just didn't work, all his instincts were wrong.

i thought hall was very good. fair enough it was poor opposition but so what? you play whats in front of you.
mcguire and burrow were excellent. people who say they don't have a kicking game should watch the re run. there kicking was supurb, both long and short.
burrow looked so at home at 7 and is obviously happier there.