Bought myself a ticket today, was told in the club shop it's close to a sell out! Good effort by Leeds.

Squads:

Leeds

1. Brent Webb
2. Ben Jones-Bishop
3. Kallum Watkins
4. Zak Hardaker
5. Ryan Hall
6. Danny McGuire
7. Rob Burrow
8. Kylie Leuluai
9. Paul McShane
10. Jamie Peacock
11. Jamie Jones-Buchanan
12. Carl Ablett
13. Kevin Sinfield
15. Brett Delaney
16. Ryan Bailey
17. Ian Kirke
18. Chris Clarkson
19. Weller Hauraki
20. Darrell Griffin

Manly

1. Brett Stewart
2. David Williams
3. Jamie Lyon
4. Steve Matai
5. Michael Oldfield
6. Kieran Foran
7. Daly Cherry-Evans
8. Jason King
9. Matt Ballin
10. Brent Kite
11. Anthony Watmough
12. Tony Williams
13. Glenn Stewart
14. Jamie Buhrer
15. Vic Mauro
16. Darcy Lussick
17. George Rose
18. Joe Galuvao
19. Ben Farrar
20. Dean Whare

Two good squads there, looking forward to it, any other neutrals going?

I'll be going. Looking forward to it

Manly's starting 13 is very strong indeed. If they're anything like match ready they have every chance of beating Leeds.

certainly does look a strong manly team, a lot of it will depend on their match fitness due to lack of competative games

If Manly play to their potential and are match fit, they will walk this game, no problem!!

I enjoy the WCC, with the Aussies a few weeks behind with their season it’s always a good leveller, however, if they lose they can always use it as an excuse.

As there are no Internationals at the end of this season, why can’t the match be played at the end of this season, for a true reflection of the two leagues?

because there are internationals at the end of the season........




just looking at the weather for tomorrow night........no different to a NRL game in melbourne,auckland or canberra in june

If it's mildish I can only see one winner, Manly look awesome across the board.

What's the handicap?

Manly should be far from match fit, most of team only played last 20 minutes 2 weeks ago against The Sharks, couple of players were in all stars match on same weekend. Leeds got 2 league games under there belt and trials so would hope Leeds will pull away in the last 15 and win with a bit to spare! Can't see it though!!

Leeds should win really, apparently the Manly players have only had around 20-30 minutes game time since last season. Leeds have been playing games since Boxing Day and they will also have a stadium full of their own fans behind them.

I'll be stood with the Manly fans though!

Its a strange concept. One team fully match fit, the other just about ready for the new season and then bring the less fit team halfway round the wourld in the hope of beating them.
Talk about a disadvantage !
Still think Manly will win though and it should be a good watch !

Is there?

Leeds Rhinos haven't looked very good in their first 2 games in the Stobart Super League this season according to their fans, so i'll go for a manly Victory by 14.

Ryan Bailey

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I'm going for a Manly win by 18pts

4 points start for leeds

Just won 2 tickets a Rugby Ball and 3 cups from a Heinz Big Soup promo stand in my local Asda, buzzing with them really looking forward to it. The tickets are for the North stand.

Manly clearly needed more game time before a match of this level. They looked well off the boil in attack. Leeds looked great though and you can't take it away from them due to the score line. Far better in the end.

When they (or any other English team) can do it in Australia against a match fit and fully prepared NRL team, I'll be impressed. As it stands, the whole concept is ridiculously weighted in our favour.

That's because the Ausies won't and I mean they refuse to stage it therefore the SL team can't be blamed if the NRL team comes over half cooked. If the Ausies are poorly prepared that's their fault for not being professional enough, the game doesn't start on the refs whistle it starts weeks earlier with proper conditioning and preparation. History shows that in this competition the English teams/clubs are more professional than their Ausie counterparts.

If the Ausies don't like the way it's set up then the message to them is that they should stop whining when they lose and do something about it otherwise suck it up, you lost!

id be impressed if Hull ever got anywhere near a WCC first

Didn't Wigan do just that?

I may be wrong but didn*t Leeds say they would have gone down under to play the match?