bookies giving leeds an -8 point start...

not so massive underdogs hey

Faiumu in for dwyer at hooker for this one looking at the squad.

grix
mcgillvary
cudjoe
wardle
murphy

lunt
robinson
brough

crabtree
kopzchak
taai
lawrence
ferres

bench.
mullally
patrick
ferguson
faiumu


cording and dawson to miss out?

The Leeds squad is:


1. Zak Hardaker
2. Ben Jones-Bishop
5. Ryan Hall
7. Rob Burrow
9. Paul McShane
10. Jamie Peacock ©
11. Jamie Jones-Buchanan
12. Carl Ablett
17. Ian Kirke
18. Chris Clarkson
19. Mitch Achurch
21. Richard Moore
22. Jimmy Keinhorst
23.Brad Singleton
26. Liam Sutcliffe
27. Thomas Minns
28. Jordan Baldwinson
30. Alex Foster
31. Elliot Minchella

Minns and one of Minchella/Foster to miss out for me.

Well after many years of watching Leeds trounce us, having looked at the squads and Leeds having 8 squad members from 20-31 we have no excuses for not winning handsomely on Sunday !!! No rugby league game is ever easy and complacency needs to be avoided.

For all of five seconds I almost felt sorry for Leeds as sorry as I will feel hopefully for the 'orrible' Mr Ablett if he plays in the channel occupied by Ukuma Ta'ai on Sunday because he won't need to wind Ukuma up like he did Joe Wardle.

We should christen this game 'no mercy' because if we are really lucky on Sunday and play well it should be 'pay back' time for all those years when it was Leeds turn to field a far stronger team.

No messing about for fartown fans I've said it as it is !!!! I want to see the Leeds blue well and truly whupped to quote Cassius Clay !!!

ill be happy just to win the game, if we win by 1 point will people say giants were rubbish should of won by 50?

With sutcliffe and burrow in the halves and mcshane at 9 I think they offer more creatively than in their last two meetings with us as the pace they will have gives them time and space especially in their kicking game which was lacking. Their forwards will probably make more metres as we will keep kicking early- but our centre / second row combinations will do the damage.
Bet ablett is looking forward to this - he could go against wardle who stood up to him, leroy or ferres who will leave him standing with some great breaks or the beast ukuma who'll run at him all game long!

We're not getting cocky or over confident because we're realistic enough to acknowledge that Leeds still have some quality in that squad.
If we all came on here shouting off how we expect to win we would be branded deluded and get the 'you always start well' taunts etc etc - not to mentions that lot coming on here IF we were to lose giving it back saying how we shouldnt have been too cocky blah blah...we cant win here so lets hope OUR players do the biz for us !!.

Leeds side will hopefully be:

Hardaker
Jones-Bishop
Keinhorst
Ablett
Hall
Sutcliffe
Burrow
Singleton
McShane
Peacock (C)
Jones-Buchanan
Kirke
Clarkson

R: Achurch, Moore, Baldwinson, Minchella

If you are going to be one of the top teams, which you are aspiring to be, you need to be able to cope with the tag of favourites. The fact you are trying to claim leeds are ''clear favourites'' despite absolutley everything being weighted in hudds favour, suggests you, not leeds, are trying to get excuses in early.

Let's examine the evidence

Leeds have half the first choice 17 missing
Hudds have had more rest
hudds are above leeds in the table
hudds have won the last 4 meetings, comfortably

Hudds are therefore clear favourites. You also have to take into account that this is a run of the mill league game, without anything riding on it, something which huddersfield thrive on.

No one has said Leeds are favourites have they? ( I am thinking the orevious post was tongue in cheek but he can correct me if im wrong) They have just acknowledged that we have to perform in order to get the points.
The last time we met there was plenty riding on it and we came up trumps there as well.

Your on a winning streak we're on a losing one.
You have more super league wins than we have in your line up.
You are current Super League champions.
You have the best youth set up tis side of the pennines.
You have more fans than us.
You still sell this seasons home shirt.

Quite right. Especially the last point.

Rhino's are definitely favourites for this one. This is their Wembley.

at the last sentence!