A tough one this weekend again v Catalan dragons who are playing some great football with a number of players out.

Looks like we will be without Handley, Oledzki, Leeming, Bentley, Gannon for this one. Hooley back in contention after playing in the reserves. Decision will be Hooley, Olpherts, Roberts or Tindall. Although Olpherts has had poor games for the club, he is still one of the top metre makers in the team, which will probably get him the nod. Likely will see Johnson on the bench for this one too given Bentley is missing.

Myler
Fusitua MacDonald Newman Olpherts
Austin Sezer
Holroyd O’Connor Tetevano
McDonnell Martin
Smith

Johnson Sangare Lisone Walters

Hooley, Tindall, Roberts, Donaldson

That's the teami would go with also.

Im not expecting anything from this game, but i felt like that against Saints recently so who knows.

Looks like a big crowd is being expected

For any meters he's making (and it's not like his backfield carries are outstanding exactly) the massive errors he continues to make are killing any momentum and if we're setting a precedent for standards expected Olpherts has to be dropped. Tindal gets the opportunity for me (or 'mine' if you love your RL lingo)

I agree. tindall should play

This certainly shouldn't be unwinnable. Smiths team is one that he's reinforced and is probably below average in terms of missing players.

Bentley big miss for this one. I’d drop Olphert’s for Tindall but won’t happen. Catalans should win as they are great spoilers, but we obviously have a chance as at home at least…..

Like with Sts this one must be all about the attitude. Play hard, cut out the mistakes and the rest will follow. I still think we need to try to be more dominant in defence though, as giving easy metres away may help stop points against but it also means we seem to start every set very deep, and generally further back than the opposition. Its hard to play good attacking rugby when the first three tackles are used to just clear the line.

There's pressure to show up and perform this week. Second half against Cas was disastrous but entirely fixable. We'll probably have a few out but so will they. If we want to be top 4 this season and not just battling for a play off spot, this really needs to be a win.

Olpherts is poor man's Tom Brisco.

Some new faces in the squad but I'd be surprised if any are picked aside from Johnson.

I dont think Johnson will either by Smiths comments on O'Connor being a 80 minutes player.

Totally agree. shows how far we have fallen if we have little confidence of winning this one at HQ. Goodness me, this needs to change fast. We need the swagger and confidence back and to put fear into our opponents.

I'm not quite sure the mood of the posters on here is any way indicative of what the players feel

Otherwise we'd have lost by 50 against St Helens

He did reference some ill health in the camp at his press conference, so possible that we could have a couple of surprise absentees come game day.