Top Spot Available? Round 24 - 18 Man Squads

By leedsrhinos.biz
August 16 2007

Four games left. All we have to do is win every single game till the end of the season, and for Saints to slip up once. That's all we need to do to gain the minor premiership which will build some momentum for the play-off campaign, leading to the grand final. We bring you the 18 man squads for V Hull KR at the Headingley Carnegie.

This week it's more injury trouble for the Rhinos. Scruton out for the season and although the little scrum-half Rob Burrow was named in the twenty, he fails to be cleared from injury therefore he will miss tommorows clash with the red Robins. The Robins squad sees four ex-Rhinos players play. We'll have to win this game and the following fixtures this season to get the top spot if Saints slip up just once....The best chance of that will be Salford this week as the World Champions field a squad that, lets just say, isn't full strength as Anderson will have one eye on the Carnegie Challenge Cup final a week later at the new Wembley.

Tony Smith:

“We saw last week how competitive Super League is this year with the team that was in 10th beating the team that are top and it just goes to show that no result these days are unusual,” said Smith.

“We need to make sure that we don’t fall victim to a results like that. Hull KR have done really well in their debut season in Super League and we will need to be at our best against them.

“They have got a lot of experienced players who have gelled well together and they will have no fear coming to Headingley Carnegie.”

Leeds: Donald, Toopi, Senior, Smith, McGuire, Leuluai, Diskin, Peacock, Jones-Buchanan, Ellis, Sinfield, Lauitiiti, Thackray, Bailey, Kirke, Ablett, Tansey, Hall.

KR: Aizue, Webster, Bauer, Cooke, Fisher, Chester, Vella, O'Neill, Dyer, Goddard, Hardman, Ward, Gene, Lennon, J Netherton, Lovegrove, Tandy, Murrell, Morrison, Gannon.

Referee: Richard Silverwood

We will have a full match preview of this game available by Friday noon - just in time for the game. Match analisis/report will be online Sunday morning from now untill the end of the season.