leeds are defending better and look a bit more organised but are still pretty poor in attack. It would be a poor decision to play a weakened side on Thursday IMO as you'll have a week off anyway before the middle 8's start so there would be no real advantage. If he does play a weakened side it says a lot about your thought process and that maybe you're expecting leigh to be your main rivals for a SL place and looking for a home game in the £ million shoot out.

I can't believe we're even thinking of playing a weakened side to me the sooner we get rid of Webster and his defeatist attitude the better

Garbutt expected to return this week. McGuire still a doubt but we haven't really missed him in recent weeks with Lilley playing well. Expect:

Sutcliffe
Briscoe Watkins Moon Hall
Lilley/McGuire Burrow
Galloway Segeyaro Garbutt
Ablett Ferres
JJB

Cuthbertson Singleton Delaney Keinhorst/Achurch

Oh cock!

Leeds 19 man squad is as I predicted above.

Thornley, Allgood, Horne & Clarkson all out of last weeks 19.

The ginner throws in the towel yet again. He did the same at wakey

If not injured, this is a stupid decision

But you also get 3 players back who look a better fit than those missing.
Green should give you more fire power than Clarkson and you get a decent hooker backing up.
Or is it me that's misjudged the quality of the 4 you have missing?
Whilst we played reasonably well against Wigan last week.
Wigan at full strength would probably have stuffed us.

Thornley and Allgood are a miss, Horne and Carlson, not so much so.

Are they injured? Because if they're not, it's a poor decision by Webster for IMO.

If it turns out that these players have just been rested for the middle 8's then we're basically writing off this game. That's just the sort of defeatist attitude that seems to have come from Webster over the past few weeks. A bit like when Chester said the Wakefield home game wasn't a must win earlier in the season. Look how that turned out. Webbo seems to be constantly playing down expectations and IMO this spreads to the playing group. I fear that, if the worst happens and we get relegated, then he'll end up as permanent head coach.

I have on good authority that they are injured. Plus some of the named others are still 50/50. The general comment was 'Busted Again'.