Is he a better back rower than Clarkson though or is he just being crowbarred in because he's Keith Senior?

Mm probably the latter.



Although, time will tell.

Leeds have to the start the strongest line up they can, even if this leaves the bench a bit light and inexperienced. Go out there and blast Saints off the pitch. JP and JJB will play a full 80 if it was upto them. You just cannot let Saints settle and get a couple of tries early on.

Leeds couldn't blast a crisp packet off the pitch at the moment.



At the risk of sounding like AP - Saints by plenty.

I’ve got a feeling Leeds will dismantle saints like a Lego set that’s getting put away.

Saturday will be a different day.Hopefully with a team looking a far better one that we saw on Friday.

Thats been said too many times this season. We're still making the same errors and still arn't playing to anywhere near our best.

Although I can see the merits of having Delaney and/or Senior in the second row I don't think this is the game to make such an experiment ...save that for next season....defence is critical.IMO we should go:



1 Webb

2 Hall

3 Delaney (to better contain the threat of Meli)

4 Senior

5 Donald (hopefully to get more running chances)

6 McGuire

7 Burrow

8 Kylie

9 Buderus

10 Peacock

11 JJB

12 Ali (Clarkson)

13 Sinfield



bench



Smith (game changer)

Bailey

Burgess

Ambler (alll three big lads which we will def need)

No Diskin?

No chance IMO. The only teams we beat by plenty are ones that give up - Leeds don't do that.



If we do win it will be by the narrowest of margins but if I was betting I'd say Leeds by 8.



I get the feeling that McClennan has targeted the cup and Leeds have been keeping their powder dry so to speak.

I would have in at the expense of Burgess.....but think we're gonna need big bench for this one and Smith gets the nod over Diskin for me. (we know Burrow and Sinfield can spell for Buderus if need be)

32-14 to Saints IMHO.



They will destroy us around the ruck all day. Short passes from dummy half to the likes of Graham and Wilkin with an offload from them. They destroyed Warrington that way and I don't rate our marker defence much. I just hope McClennen picked up on this because they have beaten us this way many times before.