Friday's Super League talking points

We look at what is being said and team news ahead of Friday's four Betfred Super League matches, including the game between Leeds Rhinos and St Helens live on Sky Sports... Leeds Rhinos vs St Helens (8pm, live on Sky Sports)

Sitting in Super League's bottom three with just one win to their name and having been knocked out of the Betfred Challenge Cup by Castleford Tigers last Saturday, there could arguably not be a worse time for Leeds to be facing reigning champions St Helens.

Added to that is the Rhinos being in the midst of a search for a new head coach following Richard Agar's decision to step down in the wake of the defeat away to Salford Red Devils in Round 6 of the league campaign.

Leeds great Jamie Jones-Buchanan is the man tasked with steering the club through this difficult period as interim head coach and his former team-mate Danny McGuire, now assistant to Tony Smith at Hull Kingston Rovers, understands the tough task facing him.

"If there's one man who bleeds blue and amber more than me it's Jamie Jones-Buchanan," McGuire, who has ruled himself out of the running for the vacant role at Headingley, told Sky Sports News.

"He's Leeds Rhinos through and through, he lives and breathes the club, and if Jamie can't galvanise the players at the minute, I'm pretty sure nobody can.

"It is a fairly tough period for the Rhinos at the moment, but we had some tough times together throughout our period as players.

"But we stuck together, believed in the process and came through the other side, and it does make you appreciate the good times a little bit more. But, at the minute, we can't really see where the good times are coming from with a Rhinos hat on."

Jones-Buchanan has one enforced change to his 21-man squad from the