Your team as it stands and if correct is player for player better than the Widnes team that will play Sunday.
Taking into account your injuries,jetlag and us being coached by Coco the clown I expect the rhinos to win by at minimum 10-20.

Golding
Briscoe Watkins Keinhorst Hall
Sutcliffe Myler
Singleton Parcell Cuthbertson
Ablett Delaney
JJB

Dwyer Ormondroyd Garbutt if fit Ferres if fit or any of the following/Walters/JJR/Smith
My worry is if any of the backs get injured who covers for them?

I predict at least one long term ankle / knee injury, probably someone with quick feet. I'll take a guess at Keinhorst.

Cuthbertson out for 8 weeks with a hand injury. Ward ruled out 4-6 weeks with his calf injury.

Worrying injuries now starting to take their tole with Cuthbertson & Ward. Hopefully Garbutt and Oledzki make the game as suggested by the club, if they don’t, then we really are to the bare bones in the front row.

Golding
Briscoe Watkins Sutcliffe Hall
Moon Myler
Singleton Parcell Garbutt
Ablett JJB
Delaney

Dwyer Oledzki Keinhorst Ormondroyd

Walters Jordan-Roberts

All these injuries are quite long term as well it's not just missing a weeks or two it's a month or two, wouldn't be surprised if we looked at bringing in a prop on loaun or something for a month but knowing the Rhinos well probably just try and ride out the injury crisis, wonder if we'd be tempted into dual reging a forward from Featherstone?

Maybe Workington will let us have Bailey

Seriously though this is exactly why I didn't want us to go to Australia as I could see this happening. The league is far more important than one game that we were never going to win. Hope we don't go back there anytime soon.

Think most of us knew this game COULD be a "throwbe"
Injuries/tiredness/deflated plus 4 points in the bag equals feet up for next Friday. Hope I'm wrong.

Cuthbertson - 8 weeks
Ward - 4-6 weeks
Garbutt - potential return
Mullally - 12 weeks
Ferres - 4 weeks
Galloway - 6-8 weeks
Peteru - 11 weeks
Walker - 3 weeks
Oledzki - potential return
A Sutcliffe - 12 weeks

Cuthbertson out is a massive blow.

That's a bit misleading though because Garbutt, Galloway, Ferres and Oledzki and A.Sutcliffe haven't played a game yet. Suggesting that the injury list is particularly related to the WCC is a bit odd given that those 5 plus Peteru and Mullally didn't go to Australia.

It's responsible for around a 1/3rd of it with the most costly absentees. They and the rest of the team could've been resting last week, looking back at what they did right and wrong in the opening 2 games, working on that and really setting themselves up for the next 4/5 games which could put us in a strong position early doors for top 4.

Printer was against the WCC trip and is just trying to support his original view - that's where the discussion is at.

We live in a modern age - these players travelled pampered not cattle and have had over a week off since the WCC - that should be plenty.

If Leeds can't beat Widnes that is more squad depth/conditioning than it is a one-off game in Australia.

As Leeds have shown numerous times this time of year doesn't matter in determining who is going to win the GF.

Wasn`t Moon carrying an injury that might force him to miss this weeks game?
I would be tempted to put Handley on the wing Briscoe to centre and Keinhorst in the forwards this week.