Kirke obviously has some hoodoo over somebody at Headingley.....there can be no other explanation.
From that squad Hauraki and Kirke should miss out; Smith to RC (better there than LC) and Delaney at LC. Hardaker should definitely keep his place ...

My guess is the gameplan will be to try keeping it up the middle....we certainly have not got the pace to go around Warrington.

Even some of the decrepid, wheezy looking touch judges we have at SL level will probably be faster than a most of our backs.

Did Burgess play last week? I seem to remember him not coming back on after his first stint against the French, injured?

That's what i'm thinking LP there's no other explanation for him missing the same with Clarky out and Hauraki named.

maybe he thinks Hauraki is better option in defence just like he thinks Senior has been one of our top performers this season

Agreed can't see why you would rest clarkson and include hauraki unless some fitness issues.

Anyone know what's happened to Cross?

Thought he played well away at Cas but i haven't seen him since!

The bench against cats was mcshane, Kirke, Bailey and Clarkson/Pitts?

Second week off for burgess

He looked alright playing touch at the John Charles on Monday night.

He's gone AWOL.

He did perform ok against Cas.

But look at his performance in more detail. As a prop in a tighter - tenser - first half he wasn't used. He was kept on the bench. Mac couldn't take the risk of him coming on and offering us one of his brain-farts as his key contribution.

Leeds pulled away in the second half, then when his possible peformance would have no bearing on the result he was brought on with around half an hour to play to run round looking technically awful.

Thems the breaks.

Then when he did come on in the 2nd half he lead with the elbow and gave a penalty away. I was surprised he didn't get a ban for that, had Ganson been the ref he may have had 10 mins in the bin.

Yup, that incident is grouped under my wording of 'running round looking technically awful'.

It was a 'daft', 'sloppy', 'technically awful' incident to add to the scrap book.

A ban would have been moot, seeing as he won't be picked.

Probably team for tonight:

Smith
Hardaker
Delaney
Ablett
Hall

McGuire
Sinfield

Leuluai
Buderus
JP
JJB
Lauititi
Kirke
-----
Burrow
Hauraki
Bailey
Pitts

Wouldn't be too unhappy with that but could see JJB at lose, pitts starting sr with kirke on bench from team above

I reckon will line up something like this:
Smith
Hardaker
Delaney
Ablett
Hall
Sinfield
Burrow
---------
Leuluai
Buderus
JP
Clarkson
Ali
JJB

Subs:
McGuire
McShane
Bailey
Kirke/Hauraki

Slightly weak bench in terms of strength, but bring McGuire on for Ali, put Sinny at LF and JJB in SR etc.