Sternum problem was suggested when he missed the friendly at your place.

Thanks. Didn't think Netherton would have been picked ahead of him under normal circumstances.

Why not? Soldiers on does our Nev.

Drop Withers and play Carlile.

Withers better than carlisle

Best time to play them i reckon, theyre thoughts must be on the week after.

Nah.

Er yer

I think the Leeds team will line up like this:

Webb
Smith
Watkins
Hardaker
Hall
Sinfield
McGuire
Bailey
McShane
Peacock
Jones-Buchanon
Ablett
Clarkson

Burrow
Leuluai
Moore or Griffin (Moore was outstanding in preseason)
Delaney

Hauraki and Moore/Griffin missing out

Anyway, we are at full strength so I am looking forward to seeing what we can do. If the Fev game was anything to go by we will look to get the ball out in the tackle and we had 3 or 4 players backing up almost every time a break was made. Should be a good game though and thank god the season is back. Let's just hope Metcheck are off the mark (-4 at kick off) and the metoffice (around 0) are closer to the mark.

Rovers have trained this week with Hall partnering Dobbo and Murrell at loose.

I am a firm believer in not fixing things when they aren't broken; the reshuffled derby line up may have been an accidental experiment but it worked with Rhys on the wing, Hall at off-half and Murrell playing on the outside of the half backs.

I would go with:

O'Donnell
Lovegrove, Welham, Webster, D Hodgson
Hall, Dobson
Clinton, J Hodgson, Wheeldon
Mika, Cox
Murrell

Bench: Taylor, Withers, Paea and Horne

I had to look twice at the starting line-up. The obvious sore thumbs were the inclusion of Jason Nev and the exclusion of Liam Watts.
The selection of Netherton perhaps shows that Sandercock is sticking to his word and willing to reward hard workers, and that he has no favourites.

Spot on. Lets hope it works and we bank the 2pts.

I've managed to wrangle an invitation for the LeedsMet hospitality box - that takes away the weather factor lol!

It's gonna be interesting to see how we go with the interchanges this season, last season with newton and galea in the backrow you got 2 80 minute players, but I don't think were gonna have that this season, it will be interesting to see what minutes we get out of Mika, Cox and Paea, who are all big lads.