He should try enjoying it once in a while.

He turns up because he's a bigger fan....or because he doesn't have any other plans or priorities on a Friday night.

I've no idea, ask Gotcha. It was him who said it this morning.


Probably the latter though if I had to guess.

omg sal?


for someone who spends as long on here as you do sal and someone who likes to voice his opinion,id say that you do care

perhaps you could do with an off season to reinvigorate your enthusiasm

Meaningless friendly - do I care who plays - no I don't, will I attend the game no I wont

Maybe it wouldn't fit thru the turnstile? Bit like the fat lass at Cas a few years back.

Anyway, Boxing Day....

I'll be there this year, regardless of who's fit or who's on holiday.
My first BD game in a few years and the first step to hopefully getting into the top 10% of Leeds fans next season.

Given how dreadful the 2016 season was, the pre-season friendly phase of the RL year could actually matter a lot more this time around than it has for Leeds in the recent past.

In previous years the impression one gets is that these games are largely for the commercial well-being of the club, with most front-line players needing time off due to extended campaigns in the Challenge Cup, Play-Offs, internationals and sometimes WCC preparations. We've had the luxury of a lot of continuity in good form and playing staff in key positions. All this is gone now. The first team needs to hit the ground running this year, so there is more impetus to do more than give youngsters/fringe signings a run out and let regulars blow-off a few cobwebs... It will be interesting to see if the club take the friendlies a bit more seriously.

Look I know we are in the off season, but can you stop ruining every thread with pointless spatting?

You can private message each other you know...

Also, heads up, if you don't want want to talk about a topic, or don't care, you don't have to post on that thread

Hear hear!!
It is so tedious that every thread disintegrates into a boring & useless"you said, I said" slanging match between a small number of posters.
No wonder so many regulars have given up on this forum.
I am sorely tempted to join them.
Debate & disagreement is fine but not the sort of tosh we've been reading above.
Give us all a break.

My dad's harder than all of yours.

Kinky.

not as bad as the Hull Muppets that turn nearly every thread on the VT into a fish fight

Golding
Briscoe
Ablett
Keinhorst
Handley
Sutcliffe
Aston
Singleton
Lilley
Garbutt
Jordan-Roberts
Delaney
Cuthbertson

Subs
Hallas
Mullalley
Walters
Ormondroyd
Baldwinson
Cameron Smith

So Lilley may be plan B.

Not a bad squad but I think we fielded a similar squad last year if not stronger and our performance was poor, i hope Jordan Lilley isn't plan B he should be allowed to progress to be a half back which is his position. Hopefully we have a good game on boxing day though and start as we mean too go on.

I doubt it. Probably Wanting to give the likes of Aston a game and get them all on the field, this allows that to happen.

Hopefully, Lilley shouldn't be a long term option at 9, as he presents the same defensive issues there as Burrow.

Also interesting to see Josh Jordan-Roberts get a start, out of the guys who debuted last year he looked the most physically ready IMO.

Speaking of Robbie Burrow, is he stIll injured? Or him and McGuire just not risked on Boxing Day?

Think they have an extended break. Good move, no point flogging those guys at this stage of their career imo.

Lilley isn't plan B. Maybe just the stop gap until actual plan b arrives in January.

I have a terrible feeling that plan B is to start the season without a hooker and cross our fingers one becomes available by April/May.

I think he was injured and thus came back to training a couple of weeks later than others (Moon also) but is ok now but not rushed back. Think we saw with the likes of Peacock & Sinfield that they wouldn't feature in the Boxing Day game even after they retired from international duty to save them for the long season ahead given their age.

Interesting to see JJR starting at 2nd row, could've gone the easier option of either Walters starting or Ablett there with one of the young backrowers asked to be a makeshift centre instead.

Phew!

I was worried that Lilley might be Plan B when I saw that Boxing Day squad



Note to Lilley: Please add the following to your CV... Stop-Gap Plan B Hooker, or SGPBH for short.

Any idea where the alleged Plan B arrival is arriving from?

NRL Reserve Grade?
QLD Cup?
Championship 1 or 2?