Re: 19 man squad announced for Leeds. : Thu Apr 24, 2014 3:32 pm  

1. Jonny Lomax, 2. Tommy Makinson, 3. Jordan Turner, 4. Josh Jones, 5. Adam Swift, 6. Lance Hohaia, 7. Luke Walsh,
18. Alex Walmsley, 9. James Roby, 16. Kyle Amor, 10. Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook,11. Sia Soliola, 12. Jon Wilkin,


17. Paul Wellens, 8. Mose Masoe, 23. Joe Greenwood, 27. Greg Richards,

22. Mark Percival (likely to miss due to injury)
28. Luke Thompson. (between Richards and Thompson, but I went for Richards)

Personally I would have Savelio in that team. Probably for Wellens.

Re: 19 man squad announced for Leeds. : Thu Apr 24, 2014 8:31 pm  

I have a feeling that Leeds will avenge the beating we gave them in the league.

Re: 19 man squad announced for Leeds. : Thu Apr 24, 2014 9:04 pm  

Even though Savelio starred at Widnes he wasn't on the field for a lot of minutes, I think to play him at Leeds would have been a mistake. Much better idea to play him and Percival against London.

Re: 19 man squad announced for Leeds. : Fri Apr 25, 2014 5:15 am  

Big test for brown this weekend, he threw the game against widnes in favour of this one, he has to show he made the right decision by getting the team up for this. Another lack lustre performance like the last few weeks will raise questions about his coaching. A return to the great rugby of a few weeks ago will signal him as a top coach

Re: 19 man squad announced for Leeds. : Fri Apr 25, 2014 6:34 am  

Lomax
Makinson
Turner
Jones
Swift
Hohaia
Walsh
Amor
Roby
Walmsley
Wilkin
Soliola
LMS

Masoe
Richards
Wellens
Greenwood

Re: 19 man squad announced for Leeds. : Fri Apr 25, 2014 11:23 am  

SomersetSaint wrote:

Big test for brown this weekend, he threw the game against widnes in favour of this one, he has to show he made the right decision by getting the team up for this. Another lack lustre performance like the last few weeks will raise questions about his coaching. A return to the great rugby of a few weeks ago will signal him as a top coach

Or we could look at the year as a whole??

Re: 19 man squad announced for Leeds. : Fri Apr 25, 2014 11:26 am  

bewareshadows wrote:

Or we could look at the year as a whole??

That's far too even handed and logical for this forum.

If we win, they should all be knighted! If we lose, SACK EM ALL!!!!

Re: 19 man squad announced for Leeds. : Fri Apr 25, 2014 11:37 am  

I get the point I really do. If it is lack luster then it will raise questions, but this game is as tough as they come and if we do lose. I hope we don't go and chuck the baby out with the bath water.

There are lots of reasons to be positive this year. But since Easter there has been a little bit too much micro inspection.

I want a win against Leeds as the Cup is a great competition to win and a sign of a springboard back to success. However, it's far from a gimme game so there will be an element of a decent performance showing some balance.

For example one of Wigan or Leeds is going to lose again as they have to play each other twice in May. As do Leeds and Cas.

So we have just been through our 'toughest' run, we now have a period where we can move up the league or put some distance from those around us. By playing 'weaker' teams.

Re: 19 man squad announced for Leeds. : Fri Apr 25, 2014 12:07 pm  

Good luck from all at Cas Tigers.
Hope you smash 'em.

Re: 19 man squad announced for Leeds. : Fri Apr 25, 2014 12:53 pm  

bewareshadows wrote:

:lol:

I get the point I really do. If it is lack luster then it will raise questions, but this game is as tough as they come and if we do lose. I hope we don't go and chuck the baby out with the bath water.

There are lots of reasons to be positive this year. But since Easter there has been a little bit too much micro inspection.

If we play well and lose it's not too big a deal. If we play as poorly as in the derby, and as againts Widnes, Cas, Huddersfield and Wakefield questions need to be asked.

The season started positively with a superb performance at Warrington but has been sliding downhill since then. Results held up, somewhat miraculously, up to the Wigan game. We could easily be on a five or six game losing run now. IMO the results and some 20 minute periods of superb performance have masked some very ordinary performances this season.

I was not of the same optimism coming into the season as most. A lot thought trophies were possible. I think the weekend will prove if that is the case. Another defeat and it's 0 from 2 in the meaningful games against the big boys and makes winning the GF seem a step too far. It's important though that we give it a go this season and try to build momentum. I'm still not convinced about Brown, the weekend will tell us a lot more.