Totally agree.



In my best Kevin Keegan voice "I would love it, LOVE IT if we finished above those cheeky, chirpy cockneys".

I think that we are alot stronger than we were last season, we have Buderus coming back from injury, which will be more like a new signing for us, also Eastwoods finally here and he will be excellent from the bench. We finally have a centre that is meant to be playing in centre also, Brett Delaney, if he plays like he did against Bradford all season, he will be brilliant, and will make Scott Donald look like a total new winger. The choice of Ryan Bailey, Ian Kirke and Luke Burgess is going to be a tough one for Bluey, the squad is really strong.



IMO the youngsters we have at the squad are going on well at the moment, we have more than what I said, we have Liam Hood, Chris Clarkson and Danny Bravo, also Jamel Chisolme, who was named rugby league fastest player last season.

IMO...



Tansey

Calderwood

Hall

Yeaman

Briscoe

R.Horne

Long

Cusack

Berrigan

O'Meley

Tickle

Manu

Fitzgibbon



Houghton

Moa

Radford

Lauaki



I think Long, Tickle, Fitz and Moa will make big impressions this season maybe also Jordan Turner once he gets in the side. I wonder how many come off worst again O'Meley and how many times Lauaki will get sent off.

I am looking forward to the trip to Crusaders, and I think that its going to be a really competitive game. People seem to think that we are going to hammer you guys, but if you look through your squad in detail, you have some potential big players in there, I dont think it will be a easy game for leeds, and dont think it will be very high scored like last season at Newport. I hope that you all have a great season. Good luck to you for the season... except when you play us though.





I look forward to seeing more of Elliot Kear and hope that he gets quite a bit of game time because IMO hes going to be a superb player.

Ben Jones-Bishop

Will Sharp

David Howell

Tony Clubb

Chris Melling

Luke Dorn (*injured)

Danny Orr

Louie McCarthy-Scaarsbrook

Chad Randall

Karl Temata (*Injured)

Luke Williamson

Jason Golden

Rob Purdham (*Injured)



Danny Ward

Oli Wilkes

Dave Williams/Matt James/Ryan Esders

Luke Gale/Andy Ellis/Ben Kaye



Best young players I reckon are Dave Williams, Jamie O'Callaghan and Luke May.



So there you have it: 7 props, 4 Full Backs, 3 hookers, 3 stand offs, 1 recognised centre and 0 scrum halves and desperately lacking in creative options, weakest on paper I've seen by far, but apparently we don't need to fill the 2x quota places left open. Who am I to disagree?





They gave us a real run at home last year. If you'd swapped the halfbacks around on that day (we got Dick Van Dyke, they got Danny Orr) then they would have won. Our clubs doing some good things off the field, on the field we're going backwards, fast.

Salford, Crusaders and Harlequins all look poor squads imo with Bradford not far behind.



I like the look of Hull!

I see a whole bunch of pretty evenly matched teams....

1. Tansey

2. Calderwood

3. Yeaman

4. Hall

5. Briscoe

6. Horne

7. Long

8. Radford

9. Berrigan

10. O'Meley

11. Tickle

12. Manu

13. Fitzgibbon



14. Cusack

15. Moa

16. Lauaki

17. Turner



That how it will be, although I'd rather have -

1. Tansey

2. Calderwood

3. Yeaman

4. Hall

5. Briscoe

6. Turner

7. Long

8. Radford

9. Berrigan

10. O'Meley

11. Fitzgibbon

12. Manu

13. Washbrook



14. Moa

15. Lauaki

16. Dowes

17. Whiting

Last year of Louies contract FWIR, if you have a bad year do you think he will stay? IMO can see him joining Leeds with a fair few players on their last year contract at Leeds.

Must be the hardest squad in the league? Can't see many messing with those boys this year.

His international prospects won't improve playing at a poor club. That's the reality.

If you think our squad is only just behind those three you need your head checking.



Maybe you haven't seen any of our imports play? Or maybe your just trying to get a reaction from people like me?



Either way I would bet you a fair deal of cash that there'll be more than these three finishing below us.