So McDermott has named the side that is hopefully going to bring the CC back to Headingley!

Hardaker
Briscoe
Watkins
Moon
Hall

Sinfield
Mcguire

Kylie
Burrow
Peacock
Ablett
Delaney
JJB

Bailey
Aiton
Kirke
Sutcliffe

Think Singleton is unlucky not to get a spot. Cant wait for Saturday to arrive now!

If that really is the 17, then he definitely lied the other day when he said two bench spots were open.

It rather undoes his claims of 'injuries' and 'doubts for the final' for those who didn't play yesterday.

Since 5pm yesterday they must have had delivery of a 'magic sponge' from the football a few years back that made players make miraculous recoveries from injury as soon as it was used.

Either that or the likes of Ablett's, Sinners', Delaney's and Burrow's injuries weren't particularly injuries at all.

Hey ho anyway. No excuses now for losing. If they mess it up on Sat then it is totally their own collective fault, no 'x was carrying a niggle' or 'y was out injured'.

Come on you Leeds.

If that is the seventeen i for one am in agreement with his selection , whether its good enough we will all wait and see ,
really hope for once at Wembley we can do ourselves justice and if we can i hope the players dedicate victory to our golden generation players who have moved on

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Not a Kirke knocker for the sake of it and he has been a valuable squad member over the years, but how he gets the nod over Singleton in particular on the past month's play is mystifying.

Mac does not trust Singleton yet and rightly so in my opinion , as well as he looks to play defensivley he has alot to learn

Well that shocked a few people.
The most predictable 17 the coach could have picked despite the performance and so called injuries over the weekend.
Kirke must have really ripped it up on Sunday.
I would have preferred Singleton or Achurch in there followed by Stevie Ward and Calrkson before I would have gone for Kirke.
But hey ho he has got a zillion GF rings to his name and every coach in the world has had him in his team so he must be good.

He has a habit of stopping dead in defence and letting players run at him, he also struggles to break tackles going forward.

Having said that I like the look of him for the future, he's willing and relatively quick. He'll bulk out more as he gets older too.
I can understand the decision not to play him as he's still very young for a prop.

I've been wary of Singleton's defence in the past but I think it has started to improve (probably not enough yet admittedly).

Will be interesting to see who does/doesn't make up the final 19. The other 2 spots are between Singleton, S.Ward, Achurch, Walters and Clarkson really and if Singleton doesn't even make the 19 (even though I know it doesn't really mean much in terms of the match) it would be quite harsh on him and a bit of a slap in the face.

Like I said it doesn't mean too much (unless we a have an injury in the warm-up) but think Singleton and Achurch should round off the 19 man squad when announced (I presume Thursday)

With the exception of Kirke that is the strongest/safest 17 McDermott could pick. If they can't beat Cas. then you have to question how well they will go in the play offs. Losing this will be a crushing blow that will be very tough to stomach.

You've spelled "would" wrong...

For me the bench is too lightweight having Aiton and Sutcliffe on there, Sutcliffe came on against Wire in the pack and had very little go forward, I would have preferred Achurch or Singleton