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Richard Agar provides early selection insight for Leeds Rhinos' clash with Hull FC

Richard Agar intends to pick his strongest side available for the pre-season clash with Hull FC.

The game represents the Rhinos' last significant trial run before the season opener with Warrington Wolves and, after chopping and changing his squads throughout pre-season victories over Wakefield, Featherstone and Bradford, Agar is set to bring all of his strongest forces together for Tom Briscoe's Testimonial game.

The Rhinos boss has previously stated that both David Fusitu'a and Matt Prior were set to be given their first run-outs of the year in the match and they are set to be joined by the other senior players who will make up the 17-man squad against the Wire in just over a fortnight.

Tom Holroyd is the only player ruled out through injury at present, leaving Agar with plenty of thinking to do in terms of selection for Super League's first game to be shown on Channel 4.

"I think it's our last major hit out so we'll be going with a lot of the guys that didn't play against Bradford and probably as strong as a line-up as we can," he said.

"But if you ask me to pick the team for round one at this moment in time, I still think there's a number of areas that are keenly contested and the next couple of weeks and how they perform against Hull will help to decide round one.

"But as is always the case, the squad's biggest test over the season and having a fit and healthy squad bar the odd one at this time is a real plus point for us."

Both Jack Walker and Liam Sutcliffe will hope for further action on their roads to recovery, after both featuring for 50 minutes against the Bulls last week.

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