Galloway was alot better last week and Mac prefers him for his work rate apparently

Hi all,

Read/followed the forum for a good while now but never created an account to post until now. So here's my first one.

Picking Mitch Garbutt and/or Brad Singleton is no brainer decision for me. I can't understand why they wouldn't be selected. I've read a few posts to suggest they've each had a poor game or 2, but the same can be said for the rest of the lads.

I'm sure we'll all agree on paper this is a much tougher game than facing Wakefield (no offence intended for any reading Wakefield fans), so we should have gone in with our strongest squad tonight and looked to have rested/rotated the odd player on Monday.

Whilst my glass is always half full with the Leeds Rhinos, I can't help but feel a little uneasy about tonights game. We can't afford to many more slip ups especially this early in the season.

Thanks for reading.

Welcome to the forum Rosc.

I think the Singleton one has been explained TBH with his partner due to and eventually giving birth over the last few days. I imagine players in that situation are given the choice to play or not in the circumstances. If she was due on the day of the Saints game I can't imagine his focus on the game ahead would've been all that good anyway.

Thanks Bang. Most posters seem friendly although opinionated which makes for good discussions.

From the McDermott's interview on the Rhinos website today, it sounds like McGuire and Hall won't be playing tonight.

The way the Coach uses the bench is often odd and he is no stranger to making odd selections,like Achurch over Keinhorst in the CC.

Garbutt seems to be the next in the list of odd omissions.

McGuire and Hall do miss out. Briscoe back and Lilley on the bench with Mulally, Delaney and Walters. I hope Keinhorst is out due to an injury and not dropped. Also think Singleton and Garbutt are ahead of Walters. Maybe Achurch and Baldwinson will make the squad on Monday too.

Handley is playing Hall misses out

Really says on FB Hall misses out. Shame as I thought Handley deserves his place over Hall.

Mac said several players both selected and not selected were carrying niggling injuries.

I suppose we have enough players to chop and change over the next 2 games. Let's hope we don't use all the same players for both games.

There is a error somewhere but it's Hall or Handley who are missing out

Handley is playing Hall is out there was a error

Looks like Keinhorst is 18th man so not injured