My mate just made that exact point, said it'll come down to a kick.

If Sutcliffe is Kev's replacement he needs games.

Ticket sales going well by all accounts...

South Stand - Sold out
Around 500 left in the Carnegie.

Seem to remember Hardaker being a fairly decent deputy as goal-kicker last time Sinfield missed a run of games.

Fortunate timing that he's available again for this one.

Good crowd, great atmosphere, let's hope we get a game to match.
I seem to remember last time that Wigan came with half their team missing we were well beaten.
But then again that might just have been a senior moment.

Hardaker reminds me of John Bentley as a goalkicker. Hammers it as hard as he can and crosses his fingers. Some weeks he'll get 9 from 9, some 1 from 6. Needs a lot of work if he's going to be a regular goalkicker. Burrow's actually a decent kicker though, if he's on the pitch.

I've got a big feeling we may not see zak in a Leeds shirt again, I hope I'm wrong but I can see Golding getting the nod at full back tomorrow whilst the investigation goes on.

McDermott has said that the club will be taking this very seriously, that Zak's future will be determined by the outcome and that it was the club who informed the police when they saw the cctv images in the press

If they weren't going to play him he wouldn't have been named in the squad surely???

If anyone has a spare for the South stand i'll take it off you. Didnt think it would sell out!

Who knows just my gut feeling.

After McDermotts comments to the press today, I don't think they should play him. McDermott has made a massive error today, and shown he is not at the standard of dealing with these sort of issues. You don't hang your players out to dry like that, not when and offence has now been cleared up. Hardaker is a pretty popular member with his team mates, and those comments today could cause a lot of disruption.

Should have been kept in house until they had made a decision, no need to tell the world at this point. And the fact he lied about ringing the police straight away, forgetting to mention they already knew about the issue.

Agreed gotcha. defimately can see where you're coming from. Do you think we'll give him anymore chances?

“As soon as we were made aware of the pictures that were on the Yorkshire Evening Post website, we actually rang the police themselves. We were keen to make sure that he helped the police in everything they needed to do. He did that and now we conduct our own investigation.

“We made that phone call straight away and then phoned Zak.”

He says they rang the police straight away WHEN they saw the photos in YEP.

Before that if they knew then I'm guessing both players probably denied any knowledge or involvement or even being in that building. So until the pictures showed up as evidence it was merely a case of their word against the students word.

As for what McDermott's said on the whole I have no problem with it. I think Hardaker has worn out his protection from management card and and McDermott whilst he's Hardaker coach, also has a duty to the club to tell his and the club's side of events and standpoint instead of just looking stubborn and straight batting all questions on the subject.

Hardaker may be a popular player in the group and if any of his mates are disappointed with McDermott's comments then they need to give their heads a shake......they should save their disappointment for their two teammates. Likewise if Hardaker is feeling any disappointment in what McDermott said then he's a fool. He's not hung him out to dry, he just told it how it is and I can't see anything he's said that Hardaker or any others could be upset about.

Seriously? you honestly believe that the players told a lie when it was brought up?

As for your comments on McDermott, not really surprising. You really don't think that a better situation would have been for him to keep his gob shut on the subject and deal with the disciplinary before mouthing off to the nation? Having concluded a disciplinary and if decided action needed taking, fair enough, and you handle it with the knowledge of the team, but not before.

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