Leeds and Leicester Squads For Sunday

Leicester Tigers travel to Headingley on Sunday in the first of a series of vital matches for Leeds Carnegie in which they must win if they are to fulfil Andy Key's desire of turning Headingley into a fortress.

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Venue Headingley Carnegie

Kick off- 3.00pm

referee JP Doyle


As is custom I will post the visitors team first


Leicester Tigers squad

Leicester Tigers have the following players injured : Ed Slater (foot), Matt Smith (hamstring), Jordan Crane ( knee) ..Geordan Murphy, Ben Pienaar, Geoff Parling and Tom Croft are all sidelined.

However, they welcome back Manu Tuilagi and Billy Twelvetrees from their England Saxons duties, and flanker Ben Woods makes his first start since October.


15- Scott Hamilton
14- Horacio Aguila
13- Manu Tuilagi
12- Anthony Allen
11- Alesana Tuilagi
10- Jeremy Stauton
9- James Grindal
1- Marcos Ayerza
2- George Chuter
3- Julian White
4- Steve Mafi
5-George Skivington
6- Craig Newby (C)
7- Ben Woods
8- Thomas Waldrom

replacements


16- Joe Duffy
17- Boris Stankovich
18- Peter Bucknall
19- Calum Green
20- Dan Hemingway
21 - Sam Harrison
22- Billy Twelvetrees
23- Dan Kipkiss


Leeds Carnegie team


Leeds Carnegie skipper returns to the starting line up against his former club and with Steve Thompson and Hendre Fourie on international duty, Phil Nilsen steps in at hooker and Rhys Oakley takes the no7 jersey.

New signing Adrian Jarvis has been drafted in to replace Lachian Mackay who failed a fitness test on Saturday morning.

15- Leigh Hinton
14- Lee Blackett
13- Henry Fa'afili
12- Scott Barrow
11- Michael Stephenson
10- Ceiron Thomas
9- Warren Fury
1- Gareth Hardy
2- Phil Nilsen
3- Phil Swainston
4- Tom Denton
5- Marco Wentzel (C)
6- Kearnan Myall
7- Rhys Oakley
8- Alfie To'oala

replacements

16- Scott Freer
17- Mike MacDonald
18- Gareth Denman
19- James Craig
20- Daniel Browne
21- Scott Mathie
22- Luther Burrell
23- Adrian Jarvis


As I said this is a vital win for Leeds as are all our remaining 11 fixtures. My only comment on the squad is I would have preferred Big Mac to start over Hardy, but he will be strong coming off the bench.


Any thoughts on the match, Leicester fans comments welcome ...thank you.

Leicester Tigers team still looks quite strong, even with all the international call-ups and injuries. This is a difficult time for the league leaders as for a few weeks now, they will be fielding a depleted side. I really hope they can do enough to stay in the top four until the ream gets back together after the 6N.

Good luck Leeds, but I think tigers may squeeze an away win here.

Well, we sneaked a win. Phew.

Home fixture against an out of form Wasps next week - time to get a bit of revenge for the early season loss at Adams Park. Should be do-able.

Well Great White congratulations you called that one right ...care to pick the lottery numbers for me ? We left it too late in bringing on Big Mac and Gomez ...good we got a losing bonus point as that might help at the end of the day but we let an opportunity go. Anyway well done.

The lottery numbers is beyond me i'm afraid!

Ah well, bad luck, but hope it improves for the rest of Leeds' season.

Sorry for the delay in responding ,well done on result and thanks for comments <ok>

When is the rescheduled match with Newcastle Falcons supposed to be palyed?

The first match is this weekend and the next one is April 9th ( i think)

I had tickets to see Falcons v Leeds on Boxing Day thats all, that was a bummer, I feel sorry for the Leeds fans who travelled up, they didn't call the fixture off until 12.40 on the day of kick-off!

Not sure but think they are still valid, check the Leeds official web-site.

http://www.leedscarnegie.com/

Don't quote me on that though. Check either on the archive or fixtures list

Will do.

Failing that , you could join the unofficial site ( I am not a member) but sure they will know

http://www.rugbynetwork.net/boards/list/s102.htm

Good luck and hope you are able to use them <ale>