Tomkins will be a great player - IS a great player, but please stop this pathetic knocking of Danny Mags - pity Smith (Coach ?) did not have a game plan to get our forwards to offload the ball in the first half !

When supporters of clubs - other than the Rhinos - can match the Leeds club, then criticise. Otherwise the critics sound really pathetic

Raynor
Netherton

Do you know, i was certain of this. I remember he used to reguarly get in at dummy half near the line and crash over in an attempt to score

Come on then let's have a bit of fun.

Pick 3 teams from your club

1) All British

2) All that have come through your academy.

3) All local born(i.e for the Leeds side all Leeds born.) but can be playing for another club

All must be eligible for Superleague 2010

Thinking caps on.

Post your sides on here please.

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Out of interest are you a fan of Jeff Foxworthy?

Because if you are or if you aren't, I do believe that you might just be a Redneck.

What difference does it make where they were born? Surely it matters where they learnt to play the game?
Otherwise Harlequins could lay claim to Calderwood

Darrel Goulding
Sean O Loughlin
Joel Tomkins
Sam Tomkins
Harrison Hansen
Paul Prescott
Micheal McIllorum
Eamon O carroll
Lee Mossop
Shaun AInscough
Bryn Hargreaves
Martin Aspinwall
Kevin Brown
David Hodgson
Stephen Wild
Paul Johnson
Jon Clarke
Shaun Briscoe
Liam Colbon
Sean Long
Lee Gilmour
Staurt Jones
Chris Melling
Lee Jewit
Andrew Thornley
Rickey Bibey
Sean Gleeson

off the top of my head

Why?

Sorry I've just had to change your post to reflect reality

Not sure of the rules here but -

McIllorum comes from Leeds

Hodgson comes from Hull and started at Halifax

Gilmour comes from Dewsbury

It's off the top of his head remember. That's the equivalent of my skid marks.

Don,t know why you bother....

You really add value to this site.

Really impressive post...................

1. Mathers
2. Smith
3. Walker
4. Gibson
5. Hall
6. McGuire
7. Tansey
8. Burgess
9. McShane
10. Bailey
11. Jones-Buchanan
12. Ablett
13. Murrell

14. Jones-Bishop
15. Kaye
16. Scruton
17. Williams

All born and have played for Leeds in last 5 years and doesn't include players such as Burrow, Sinfield, Diskin, Calderwood, Ward, Watkins; If going for Leeds lads can add Peacock.

For next season:

1. Jones-Bishop
2. Broughton
3. Coady
4. Senior
5. Hall
6. McGuire
7. Burrow
8. Bailey
9. Diskin
10. Peacock
11. Jones-Buchanan
12. Ablett
13. Sinfield

14. Burgess
15. McShane
16. Watkins
17. Kirke
18. Amor
19. Pitts

All British

1. Jones-Bishop
2. Watkins
3. Coady
4. Senior
5. Hall
6. McGuire
7. Burrow
8. Bailey
9. Diskin
10. Peacock
11. JJB
12. Ablett
13. Sinfield

14. Kirke
15. Burgess
16. Worrall
17. Pitts

All Academy

1. Mathers
2. Fox
3. Walker
4. Watkins
5. Hall
6. McGuire
7. Burrow
8. Fozzard
9. Newton
10. Carvell
11. JJB
12. Morley
13. Sinfield

14. Diskin
15. Bailey
16. Scruton
17. Ward

Leeds born

1. Mathers
2. Raynor
3. Walker
4. Gibson
5. Hall
6. McGuire
7. Tansey
8. Carvell
9. McShane
10. Scruton
11. JJB
12. Ablett
13. Murrell

14. Bailey
15. Burgess
16. Golden
17. Jones-Bishop

And also considerably richer than you.

I have to say I like McGuire, and I don't understand the witch hunt against him by many (except simple dislike). However, he has been incredibly hit-and-miss for GB/England over the years, and seems to have real problems with decision-making and staying calm under pressure.

He should watch what Lockyer does for Aus nowadays - not a huge amount really except tee up the plays and back up. McGuire can do more but he needs to concentrate on the basics, because the errors he introduces when he throws panicked passes and runs his outside men out of space are punished sevrely at this level.

If Tomkins can produce the goods again, that's the job I'd ask Danny to do. Forget the fancy stuff, just concentrate on getting good clean passes away to the threequarters. He'd probably find that if he did that the opportunity for a step or dummy and run will be far more likely than if he tries to do too much on every play.

Those were the exact words your mother said to Kevin.

Spot on again mate. McGuire is and always has been a class player. Sometimes though if you put him under lots of pressure his decision making goes to pot. I expect him to bounce back big time if selected on saturday.

So the player who "wasn't ready" still managed to get the better of the best team in the world once he got hold of the ball. Define "ready". Would that be like McGuire, Sinfield, Peacock, Hall and Smith were "ready" in the first half (or indeed the whole game in McGuire's case). Stop being a one-eyed idiot. Anyone could see Tomkins was the one who sparked us to life in the 2nd half. Maybe Smith should have played him against France instead of bringing him in cold for such a big game. As for his step, it seems to be good enough to take him past the Aussie defence and every defence in Superleague! Go figure!

tomkins wasn't the one who sparked us into life, that was down to sinfield running and organizing of the forwards from dummy half.

as for tomkins himself, i still find it funny that so many fans (granted mainly wigan fans) seem to think he's some kind of god. lets not forget the fact that he's played half a year of super league (which its taken him till he's 21 to do) and that of his two big games to date (saints in the play offs & aus this weekend) he's been quiet, if not none existent, for large parts of the game.

It kinda gets missed that the new panto villan mcguire was scoring 30 trys a season when he was tomkins age and how ironic is it that the sinfield haters have lost their voice! It seems to me you are one game away from been slaughtered by player hater fans but also one game away from shutting the fickle bast*rds up.

In fairness he's been held back by Noble. I suspect other coaches would've thrown him in the deep end a lot earlier.

Bo!!ocks. It was the likes of Crabtree, Burgess and Ellis who sparked us into life in the 2nd half. The forwards decided to turn up, thats what sparked us into life.