Major new blow for Leeds Rhinos as squad is named for Super League game at Toulouse Olympique

Half-back Aidan Sezer has a hand injury and joins stand-off Blake Austin (calf) and hooker Kruise Leeming (foot) - who will both miss a second successive game - on Rhinos’ casualty list.

Matt Prior was ruled out earlier this week when he picked up a two-match ban following an incident in last Saturday’s win over Castleford Tigers.

Fellow front-rowers Zane Tetevano, Tom Holroyd and Muizz Mustapha are also suspended, along with centre Harry Newman.

Winger/centre Tom Briscoe, who has been unavailable since suffering ankle damage in Leeds’ home win over Toulouse three months ago, is the other player ruled out through injury.

Jack Walker, at Hull and Levi Edwards, with York City Knights, are both on loan and Jack Broadbent joined Featherstone Rovers last month on a deal until the end of this season.

Twenty-one-year-old prop Yusuf Aydin, signed this week on a fortnight’s loan from Wakefield Trinity, is set to make his debut and Bodene Thompson, who has played in both the front- and second-row this season, is available after a two-game ban.

Winger Liam Tindall is back in contention following a facial injury and could make his first appearance since the win over Hull KR at Headingley in April.

Centre Max Simpson and half-back Jack Sinfield, who are both 17, are also named in the initial squad.

Full-back/centre Zak Hardaker is included, despite suffering a dead leg last week.

Toulouse’s squad includes the 17 players who beat Wakefield Trinity last Saturday, plus Mathieu Jussaume, James Cunningham, Paul Marcon and Ilias Bergal.

Toulouse Olympique: from Schaumkel, Jussaume, Marcon, Norman, Albert, Navarrete, Hansen, Peyroux, Bretherton, Paulo, Cunningham, Bergal, Hankinson, Sangare, Armitage, Russell, Ashall-Bott, Peats, Belmas, Gigot, Alvaro.

Leeds Rhinos: from Fusitu’a, Sutcliffe, Handley, Oledzki, Bentley, Martin, Dwyer, Myler, Smith, Thompson, Gannon, Walters, O’Connor, Donaldson, Johnson, Simpson, Tindall, Sinfield, Hardaker, Aydin.

Referee: Jack Smith (Wigan).