Remember that RA knew he had to strengthen the pack first before anything else happened and that is what he did..

Whiting has been injured himself a lot of that time. I can't recall too many (if any) occasions where halfback cover has been required and Whiting has been fit, but not needed to cover another position. This season, for example, it could be argued that we'd have been weaker with Washbrook on the wing and Whiting in the halves than the other way around.

Well we can't complain in that department at all!

They will need to be firing on all cylinders against Leeds. Without Peacock and Burgess we should..... No "Have to" bludgen them down the middle. They will be relying on Leului and Bailey (who will be up for it) and we have to smash them!!

To be fair to RA he didnt know that the likes of Washy, Berro, Turner etc would all prove incompetent halves should horne and long both get injured again.

Yes, I suppose he hasn't been at the club for very long.

absolutely spot on, and to be fair to them both bailey and Leului are both bang on form as well so it will be an interesting battle that one, i would expect to see Senior on the 2nd row that day also which will give them lots of speed to counter too...
However i believe we will wrap the forward battle up early due to the weight of numbers we can muster but their back line is awesome which ever way you look at it and always looks dangerous

Yeah, foward dominace = field position and (hopefully) more ball....
NOT meaning our backs can take it easy, Leeds are more likely to score full length tries than anyone.

Id put Leului and Graham as my 2 starting props in an all star team of Super League over the last 5 years.

didnt even know why we lot thacks go... the game at wakefield away he was brilliant, good half back, had the potential to be a really good player, and we did what hull fc usually do... be stupid and let him go

If he was/is that good he'd be in sl.

Exactly. If we were so foolish to let him go, why hasn't he been snapped up by another SL club? Not even the lower placed clubs seem interested.