Re: RD 8 | Huddersfield Giants (H) : Tue Apr 16, 2024 4:23 pm  

Frosties. wrote:

Meslier
Fusitua Newman Momirovski Roberts
Croft Frawley
Oledzki Ackers Goudemand
McDonnell Martin
Smith

O’Connor Lisone Sangare Donaldson

McCormack Edgell Sinfield Littlewood

Interested to see how Meslier goes at full back Frosties!!
Should be decent under the high ball

Re: RD 8 | Huddersfield Giants (H) : Tue Apr 16, 2024 6:22 pm  

Simmo71 wrote:

Interested to see how Meslier goes at full back Frosties!!
Should be decent under the high ball

Not so sure about that mate.
He will probably punch it in the air.

Re: RD 8 | Huddersfield Giants (H) : Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:47 pm  

Exeter Rhino wrote:

I cringe reading posts in which fans name certain opposition teams and assume Leeds should automatically win based on league position and/or the status of the opposition club. It's not the 2000s anymore, the salary cap has greatly closed the gap between teams in terms of squad talent and depth, and it just shows a lack of respect for other clubs IMO. It also implies that we will perpetually lose to teams above us, killing grounds for any reasonable hope in the team while artificially raising expectations against weaker clubs. No wonder coaches talk about taking it a game at a time...

Not disrespecting the opposition at all but I don't think its unreasonable to state that if you have ambition to progress season on season that you should be targeting winning your home games against teams that finished the previous season with a similar points total.
Also I believe 90% of supporters would be disappointed with defeats to the 2 bottom placed clubs.
As you pointed out all clubs are equal regarding the salary cap and if we are maintaining that there is not that big a gap between squad quality across the league then where you finish at the end of the year will depend on the quality of your coaching. To a certain extent I agree!
For what its worth I would like to see Hull bounce back as it would be good for the wider game.

Re: RD 8 | Huddersfield Giants (H) : Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:24 pm  

I'm hoping we can field a 17 like this

Miller
Roberts
Newman
Momirovski
Fusitu'a
Croft
Frawley
Oledzki
Ackers
Sangare
Martin
Mcdonnell
Smith

Subs

O'Connor
Lisone
Goudemand
Ruan

I think recalling Ruan is a smart decision he'll hopefully get some game time with us losing a few forwards to concussion protocol.

Re: RD 8 | Huddersfield Giants (H) : Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:52 pm  

Disappointed we can’t play Holroyd, we just cannot get our first 17 together.

Miller
Fus, Newman, Mom, Roberts
Croft, Frawley
Mik, Ackers, Sangare
McDonnell, Martin
Smith

O’Connor, Lisone, Goudemand, Ruan.

Re: RD 8 | Huddersfield Giants (H) : Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:23 am  

Should have a good reaction after some time off and hopefully beat Huddersfield and gain some confidence and form going into Hull and London games

I also see its a Lot Pod and Squareball cross over for their review!

Re: RD 8 | Huddersfield Giants (H) : Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:25 am  

KaeruJim wrote:

Disappointed we can’t play Holroyd, we just cannot get our first 17 .

I’m just hoping that if Fuisitua does play he’s not just used as our main battering ram out of defence. Yes he’s a big lad, but if we flog him like we’ve flogged Handley over the last few years he’ll soon be back on the treatment table. Lads like him are meant to be used as auxiliary forwards to enable to enable the bigger guys to have a breather. They’re not in the team to allow our props to toss it off.

Re: RD 8 | Huddersfield Giants (H) : Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:36 am  

I have backed Huddersfield on the predictions topic. On that basis I am more confident of a Leeds win.

Re: RD 8 | Huddersfield Giants (H) : Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:27 am  

[quote="KaeruJim"]Disappointed we can’t play Holroyd, we just cannot get our first 17 together.

Miller
Fus, Newman, Mom, Roberts
Croft, Frawley
Mik, Ackers, Sangare
McDonnell, Martin
Smith

O’Connor, Lisone, Goudemand, Ruan.[/quote]That's what I would go with if Fus available.

Re: RD 8 | Huddersfield Giants (H) : Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:29 am  

KaeruJim wrote:

Disappointed we can’t play Holroyd, we just cannot get our first 17 together.

Miller
Fus, Newman, Mom, Roberts
Croft, Frawley
Mik, Ackers, Sangare
McDonnell, Martin
Smith

O’Connor, Lisone, Goudemand, Ruan.

Gannon out until at least June apparently too. We really have no luck with injuries. Never known a team like it.