I could be wrong (having not seen us play yet due to obvious reasons) but we seem to be a lot more willing to promote the ball, This is a new situation for teams playing against us (and us as well mind).

Not taking anything away from JM BTW as we did play that way in our last year in the NL's
I just think JM got caught in a situation where we had to play ultra regimented just to keep us up in our first year and we/he then got locked into a vicious cycle of becoming less willing to think/work outside the box when trying to improve year on year.

Squads announced:

Webb, Watkins, Hardaker, Hall, McGuire, Burrow, Leuluai, McShane, Peacock, Jones-Buchanan, Ablett, Sinfield, L. Smith, Delaney, Bailey, Clarkson, Hauraki, Griffin, Moore.

McDonnell, Hall, D. Hodgson, Clinton, Withers, Webster, Dobson, Wheeldon, Taylor, Lovegrove, J. Hodgson, Paea, Horne, Murrell, Mika, Netherton, Cox, Welham, Carlile.

nev and wheeldon in 1st squad of season i really didnt see that coming 6 wks ago thought theyd be struggling to get near

The Leeds team picks itself IF Sinfield is out, ours is a little harder to pick IMO.

Guessing they could be the 2 left out:

McDonnell
Hall
Webster
Welham
Hodgson D
Murrell
Dobson
Paea
Withers
Clinton
Mika
Horne
Lovegrove

Carlisle
Hodgson J
Cox
Taylor

Hodgson and Carlisle won't both be on the bench surely. I'm hoping our forwards are ready to play longer minutes what with the new interchange rule.

i think theyl miss the cut 2 with j hodgson at 13 and lovegrove and hall doin what they did in derby friendly swapping over in attack and defence but still didnt expect them both to make the 19 i guess its down to injuries

Is josh fully fit? Could be withers at 6 with josh at 9 and murrell on the bench?

Nevo should be no where near the 17. i was optimistic about sandychebs until i saw the squad.

Diddums

god you sound like a hull fan nethertons not the anti christ you think he might not even make the 17 cheer up for fs

Perhaps he knows more about RL than you do, who would have thought

Nev does a good job for us, if we are 6 points up with 10 to go, there isn't many I would want on the pitch in front of him.

The 2 to miss out from those numbered 1-25 and not injured are Latus and Watts, so hardly a massively leftfield selection.

My guess now is that we'll go more conventional at 6 (Murrell or Withers), with Hall staying on the wing.

Full strength champions away from home, lovely bring it on

Was thinking of having Liam Watts in my Dream Team - is he injured?