If Deacon doesn't play then I am worried that Leeds will gain easy field position through poor kicking. Deacon HAS to play simply because he can turn teams around. Leeds will be looking for a physical game and making them turn around to retreive the ball will sicken them. I will say it again that the bench needs to be strong. If anything Mcillorum should be dropped and use Piggy & Tommy as interchanges at 9. Deacon at 7 and Lockers at 6

1 Tomkins
2 Goulding
3 Gleeson
4 Carmont
5 Richards
6 O'Loughlin
7 Deacon
8 Fielden
9 Riddell
10 Coley
11 Hansen
12 Tomkins
13 Farrell

14 Feka
15 Leuluai
16 Tuson
17 Prescott

Loads of options with that. O'Loughlin can drop into Lock to spell forwards, Leuluai can interchange at 9 and into the halves. Probably wont happen but in order to give the side as bigger engine as possible along with Deacons kicking that is what I would go with.

Amos
Darrell
Gleeson
Carmont
Pat
Sam
Tommy
Fielden
Piggy
Coley
Joel
Harrison
Lockers

Watch out you'll have some Leeds fans on your back for being arrogant in not believing we need any subs....ha ha.

a lot has been said here about their pack and sinfield running things. this is only the case as MM yet again played the wrong side and wrong tactic and leeds bossed us through the centre of the park. neither side had many chances on the wings.

get the team right and we won't need to worry about who might win the game for them.

Same for me except I'd have Tuson on the bench instead of Prescott. Prescott is just to error and penalty prone for my money, especially in big games

Same team that beat Hull KR for me.

Do you really think we should be going to Leeds with 3 props one of whom being Feka who wont be effective playing anything over 30 mins

no kicking players on the floor then this week by young joel then?

Yes i do he played 30min in the second half against KR Madge has made the mistake twice now not going with 3 props and using them if we dont use 3 experienced props we might as well not bother going.

I don't see Prescott doing much to help matters, he dies in the tackle, knocks on and gives away penalties. Let Farrell, Tuson or Hansen muck in at prop, they'd do a better job between them. Also Feka looked fresh coming off last week and was great when on, I reckon he could do two 20s which is all you need out of a prop really

In fact I'd start Feka, its bound to be firey at the start and he's a good man to have in the collision. No way would they risk moving the ball about to try and exploit him in the first 20, they would have to let him play his natural game

I actually thought Prescott was quite good against Hull KR. The only player that has been slightly disappointing over the last few weeks has been Tuson, who doesn't quite seem able to match his performances earlier in the season, although he's still performing well, especially for someone of his age and level of experience.
Going with 3 props against Leeds would put us in big trouble again, and there's not much difference in errors and penalties conceded between our main set of forwards.
Tuson just doesn't offer the same as Prescott in terms of metres and whilst Tuson will tackle everything that moves he still struggles defending against the biggest players, which Prescott doesn't.