that the same ablett and kirke with 2 GF winners rings?

both are players, like bennett at saints, who do a lot of unnoticed work and don't take up much cap space.

Leeds fans are so boring. Richie Mathers has won a major trophy this season. Being 1/17th of a quality side is no indication of quality.

i would agree. however i stand by what i said. you can't have internationals in every position.
neither have let us down and looking back through saints sides i'm sure we could find players such as kirke and ablett.
bennett was one i mentioned,stankevitch(sp) another.
neither earnt rave reviews but there coaches thought enough of them to pick them week in week out.
smith and bluey have always picked kirke and ablett. obviously you know more than them....................

Rickey Bibey > Garry Schofield?

I think the two squads are pretty evenly matched. Leeds have Kirke and Ablett outside the 17 and we will probably have Hargreaves and one of Clough/Flannery/Moore outside ours. After that both sides have a mixture of exciting prospects with a few games to their names, and untested kids.

Raw pace in the backs and experienced 7 edges it for Leeds as far as the squads are concerned IMO.

Much rests on how Eastmond handles 7.

1. Wellens
2. Gardner
3. Gidley
4. Soliola
5. Meli
6. Pryce
7. Eastmond
8. Graham
9. Cunningham
10. Puletua
11. Flannary
12. Wilkin
13. Roby

14. Moore
15. Fa'asavalu
16. Fozzard
17. Clough

With Hargreaves, Wheeler, Dixon, Ashurst, Dean, Armstrong, Emmitt, etc as back up. Looks reasonably strong IMO.

My response was morre in jest to the handful of idiots on the Leeds board who have knocked one off on the basis we have signed Fozzard.

When you look at our squad depth there is a lot of talent together with a lot of young talent ready to make its mark.

My belief is that the Fozzard signing represents a long term strategy to bed in these lads together with the short term benefit of easing up the workload on Jammer.

Leeds have an edge with pace in the backs, but I really see our future looking bright in 2 years time.


In terms of Ablett who is mentioned earlier - I always have thought he does a good job for Leeds and has the added bonus of being quite a physical player.

We need a new coach and a solution to the Wello problem too.

Will you change your mind on Potter if he beats Leeds in the GF, something the mighty Anderson was incapable of?

Same line-up as I quoted but I listed Moore as starting and Cunningham impacting off the bench... looks strong considering whose backing them up i.e. Wheeler, Ellis, Lomax etc...

More optimistic than you usually are then

That's a pretty fair assessment. Although if we do get that other prop I reckon we'll have the edge up front.

Corrected