Leeds Rhinos have recalled young full back Jack Walker for this Friday’s Super 8s clash with St Helens
Walker, who was man of the match in the Super League meeting between the sides at Headingley Carnegie, has played for Adrian Morley’s Under 19s side in the last two weeks but has earned a recall to the squad this week with Ashton Golding missing out. Mitch Garbutt is named in the squad as he looks to prove his fitness from the calf injury that has ruled him out of the last two games.
Leeds winger Ryan Hall says "“We need to produce a performance like that, rather than last week’s.
“It is a big game. A lot of people are saying we don’t need to do a lot more to stay in the top-four, but we are not really bothered about that.
“We want to finish second. Obviously top has gone now, but we want to get a home semi-final.”
Tomorrow could be the last throw of the dice for Saints.
After a disappointing year, recent good form lifted them into the top-four, but they slipped back to fifth after an 8-6 home defeat by Hull six days ago.
They need to win to keep alive their hopes of a semi-final place and will travel to Headingley determined to spoil the party, but Hall stressed: “We have to concentrate on ourselves.
“We were poor against Wakefield, but I don’t think we will be like that this week.”
St Helens have Tommy Lee coming into the side with Jake Spedding missing out.
Leeds squad: Tom Briscoe, Kallum Watkins, Joel Moon, Ryan Hall, Danny McGuire, Rob Burrow, Matt Parcell, Adam Cuthbertson, Jamie Jones-Buchanan, Carl Ablett, Stevie Ward, Liam Sutcliffe, Brett Delaney, Brad Singleton, Mitch Garbutt, Jimmy Keinhorst, Anthony Mullally, Jordan Lilley, Jack Walker.
St Helens squad: Jonny Lomax, Tommy Makinson, Ryan Morgan, Mark Percival, Theo Fages, Matty Smith, Alex Walmsley, James Roby, Kyle Amor, Jon Wilkin, Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook, Luke Thompson, Tommy Lee, Dominique Peyroux, Morgan Knowles, Danny Richardson, Regan Grace, Matty Lees, Zeb Taia.