Injuries and suspensions aside, it is Leigh. If tetevano, prior, Mik, king and Holroyd are all fit I’d run over them down the middle early on then it wouldnt matter if we had Jordan tansey at 7. Hopefully by 50-60 mins prior and Mik and rest up.

Myler; Broadbent Briscoe Edwards Briscoe; Leeming Sutcliffe; Oledzki Dwyer Prior; Martin Walters; Tetevano. Holroyd Donaldson Vuniyayawa Gannon

Tindall / Hall / O’Connor / Smith

If Myler out then Broadbent to FB & Hall / Tindall on the wing. Would be nice to have Lui or McLelland playing though given the lack of halves.

No sign of edwards starting centre given hall has made the 21 ahead of him.

Be interested to see the video footage the RFL have reviewed to determine that the Gale incident warranted more than a yellow. Without footage, how can they further punish as the refs have already dealt with it.

Likewise, why was Mellor not penalised or sent off if he made contact with Hicks? Did Hicks not feel it?

As for Thompson, he ran in and took around 5 punches without throwing one. Red was harsh nevermind a ban.

They will have gone off the match officials reports.

Once again discipline has cost us. Weve got to learn at some point.

If it's based on the match officials, then why was he not red carded during the game?

By sounds of it, he deserves a ban but surely the match officials can't change punishment when they did not deem it a red inplay.

The Match Commissioner cant issue a red card hes sat in the stands but he has to put in a full report to the RFL after the game for the disciplinary panel to review. If Mellor has put his hand on Hicks and the match commissioner sees it and puts in the report then its Mellors fault and nobody elses. For a 1 game ban it doesnt sound like its an aggressive act but players know they cant put hands on the match officials. Its stupid.

Think Charlie has made those initials up, he's like that
Ben Flower (can't say we're missing him because he never plays) Adam Sidlow Lewis Tierney, Brendan Elliot (covid), Alex Gerrard (same as Flower), Blake Wallace (same as flower/gerrard), Jamie Ellis & Tom Spencer have been loaned out, and Warrington youngster Keenan Brand doesn't get selected anymore.. None of them are match winners I know, but we only named an 18 man squad v Wire. I guess the players Leeds will have missing means that you might only score 30 -40 points.

It's so infuriating to watch in this team - you can see them losing the plot on the field and doing reckless, if not frankly stupid things. The Gale one is insanity. He's the captain and one of our most experienced players but part of the role is to keep your composure. Letting rip with a volley of punches might be crowd pleasing but it's stupid beyond belief.

Does anyone know if the club fines or sanctions players when they pick up a ban? We're going to have to start implementing this sort of thing if this team is going to learn the hard lessons they need to.

We have the following players missing for this game.
Walker Newman Hurrell Handley Gale McLelland Thompson Smith Mellor however if we disregard the half back issue we have a competitive team especially in the pack. In terms of managing the cap our squad is too big and all ready have Bentley coming in.. We should be looking to trim 3 or 4 players in the off season and bring in no more than 2 players of high quality in the positions that we require

We'll have 4 overseas players to replace. Failure to do that with quality isn't going to get us back into contention for trophies.

Technically, he didnt put “hands on him”. It was during the melee after Hurrell was knocked out. Briscoe ran into the back of Hicks on his way in. And then Mellor followed. I thought Briscoe contacted Hicks worse to be fair but Mellor had his elbow raised as he contacted Hicks hence the Grade B and not A like Briscoe.

2 Tom Briscoe
6 Rob Lui
8 Mikolaj Oledzki
9 Kruise Leeming
10 Matt Prior
11 Alex Mellor
12 Rhyse Martin
14 Brad Dwyer
15 Liam Sutcliffe
18 Tom Holroyd
19 King Vuniyayawa
22 Sam Walters
23 Callum McLelland
24 Luke Briscoe
25 James Donaldson
26 Jarrod O’Connor
27 Jack Broadbent
28 Corey Hall
29 Liam Tindall
30 Levi Edwards
31 Morgan Gannon

Broadbent
Briscoe Sutcliffe Briscoe Tindall
Lui McLelland
Oledzki Leeming Prior
Martin Walters
Donaldson

Dwyer Holroyd Vuniyayawa Gannon

Edwards Hall O'Connor Mellor

Guess much will depend on whether Sutcliffe, Lui and McLelland all actually play.