agree with Reardon switching with Halley may well work better and thats what I personally would have gone with but just cant see it happening on the day. I am by no means Worrincy's biggest fan at all but the last few games has been playing much better and think he deserves the spot over Donaldson

To be honest Dave seems to have lost a bit of pace to me. That acceleration he had seems to have gone. Maybe he's been doing weights a bit more to bulk up, I don't know, but he's not had the zip that characterised his play all season imo.

Not too sure about the wording of the rule, but wasn't the 19 man squad brought in to prevent stars being [iremoved[/i from the squad and not to stop them[i returning[/i? I'd suspect there is some way of allowing for last minute fitness tests built into the sytem in any case, hence the case of the Leeds players at Easter.

last minute injury withdrawal is allowed provided there is a genuine injury in the 19 man squad. Leeds didnt even bother going through pretense and just dropped one of their kids and put lee smith in. Sadler had an article about it following week in league express. RFL response was that Leeds hadnt been told about the ruling - strange how other 13 clubs and majority of fans were fully aware of it

we did it correctly for hull kr game where worrincy wasnt named in 19 man squad but was brought in to replace langley when he withdrew injured.

As I said at the time, it's a tactic many teams have used on more than one occasion. If you think a star is potentially returning and don't want the opposition to know until late, you purposely name someone in your 19 who is injured. That way you can withdraw them to replace them with the returning player.

Not in the spirit, but perfectly within the rules and something I know Leeds & Saints have exploited before and I'm pretty sure a few other sides have too.

whilst against the spirit of the ruling I don't have a real problem with that. But at easter Leeds didnt even go through the motions of withdrawing an 'injured' player, they just dropped one of there youngsters and put smith in and RFL turned a blind eye and came out with the feeble excuse that leeds hadnt been informed of the ruling. much too cosy a relationship between headingley and red hall imo.