I think the Huddersfield game is key. If we lose that, then the games post Aussie trip become very difficult

Cats....

Jordan Abdull
Jake Connor
Josh Griffin
Bureta Faraimo
Brad Fash
Dean Hadley
Danny Houghton
Albert Kelly
Jordan Lane
Jack Logan
Masi Matongo
Hakim Miloudi
Mickey Paea
Cameron Scott
Marc Sneyd
Fetuli Talanoa
Carlos Tuimavave
Jansin Turgut
Danny Washbrook
Liam Watts

Its always a debate as to what is best with pre season etc do you give most of the first team a run out and risk possible injury ala Addy or do all the drills and plays etc on the training field etc?

For me Radford seems to have adapted each off season taking into account the way the team performed from the start and how they finished and hopefully has made the right decisions and plans. We have a very settled squad with experience so is there a huge need to have the majority of first team players in the warm up games?

In all fairness most teams are in the same boat re friendlies as most even when they have first team players in only get limited minutes.
I think it will be an interesting season for us and have a feeling we will do pretty well as the squad in settled as has the best balance its had for as long as I can remember.

No win situation for a coach I think.

Leeds have done well in the past by having a moderate start, building up momentum, almost deliberately having a mid season dip in form to ramp it up again ahead of the run in to the play offs.

If we only have our share of injuries rather then a glut at any one point in time, I think we should be well placed

dammed if you do dammed if you don't, you would like to think radders and his staff know which is the best way to go, he hasn't done to bad last 2 years so I'm ok with that,

getting some game time and throwing 1st XVII players into the friendlies I think has to be the way to go. You can't second guess injuries, they can happen at any time even outside of match play so trying to cotton wool early doors IMHO isn't really of benefit. Obviously getting younger squad members game time is crucial too so a balanced approach is fine but not shying away from ensuring everyone gets a decent wedge on the field.
What I would like to see is more thought into rotating players earlier on and if we do have younger squad players in the XVII then bloody well use them not wait until last 10 minutes of the second half. Radford has been guilty of that too often and it's a wasted sub spot and thus forwards particularly are more fatigued.
The other aspect is mental strength, again we went into free-fall too often and against crap sides too as well as folding badly from strong starts.
I didn't think we were too bad physically at season end I just think that we failed mentally at times and this cost us and we end up chasing or letting in soft tries too often including the Leeds play-off game.

Decent side that, albeit still missing Shaul, Taylor, Bowden, Minichiello, Manu and Green. Are Green and Shaul injured?

green seems to be pretty injury prone. Shame as he never really gets a consistent run of games

At work today, is the Catalan game on radio?

Best I can find is online.... mixlr.com/hull-fc-live/

Best I can find is online.... mixlr.com/hull-fc-live/

Very pleasing if unexpected scoreline. Best part was the performances of Faraimo and Paea. Faraimo’s first carry was ace, if he continues like that he’ll be a right fan’s favourite. And Paea looked like he’d never been away.

When Watts dropped out I thought we might get steamrollered in the forwards with Tag, Watts, Bowden, Manu, Mini and Green all missing (essentially our starting pack). They stood up to the physical challenge really well I thought, just 2 tries conceded. Handling not amazing either side but it was snowing all game.

Hopefully good on injuries too. Masi got clobbered and went off in first half but came back for big minutes in 2nd. Connor took a bang to his arm first half but stayed on. Think Radford will be satisfied again.

I know it was a friendly but I was surprised how easy it seemed against a pretty much full strength Cats team. We won without needing to get out of second gear, which is pleasing considering the bulk of our pack was missing. I was impressed by Faraimo's strength in carrying the ball, I think he knocked Aiton airborne with that first carry Haha

according to radford today, green the only player unavailable for the opening match v huddersfield

... at least it wasn't 40°C.

I don't think so
2017 23 app. out for 7 week period june/July
2016 26 app
For someone who people don't consider to be a first choice XVII player he makes a lot of appearances and always has a strong game.