Beat me to it.
Thought you had to have 7 missing to cancel a game anyway?

Surely not fair on Salford for such a big game. Their trainings been cancelled so far this week too....
Could be some travel restrictions as a result too......

Anyone see what happened with Juve vs Napoli?
Absolute farce.....

Whilst it might not be fair and I would be unhappy if it was Leeds in the same position.
But I really do not think you can cancel this particular game at such short notice.
Their reserves did pretty well against HKR so they could always draft in some of them.
On the other hand it could be a complete bluff just to make us complacent on the day which I truly don`t believe is the case by the way.

Cuthbertson walker smith holroyd all playing tonight, interesting

So who was missing for Salford today, it must be two of them that are the positives...

The final will definitely go ahead; nobody in the game thinks otherwise.
Very unlucky for Salford but we still have to beat them.

Wouldn’t be surprised on tonight’s game if Mustapha was given a spot in the 21 man squad.

Myler; Briscoe Sutcliffe Hurrell Handley; Lui Gale; Seumanufagai Leeming Oledzki; Martin Mellor; Prior. Dwyer Donaldson Holroyd, Smith / Cuthbertson / Mustapha

Walker McLelland.

I think it will be as above with Smith the final spot. We need our big trucks down the middle and then we have the balance in the rest of the side now to cause problems.

We need to pick the best side to win the game of course, but for me I think also reward the players who played so well against Wigan to get us there. If you contributed in that game and then got dropped for the final you'd be (rightfully) peeved.

I much prefer Prior at LF (this was always going to be the case). He has a high workrate and a really good offload game.

If we're on I don't think Salford will be able to live with this side, but strange things happen in Cup Finals sometimes.... I'm still scarred by the "limping Senior" game against Hull!

Mustapha?

He has potential but I think he was a touch disappointing last night. Think there are far more deserving players from last night albeit I suspect we will go with the same 17 as the final with Walker and Cuthbo unlucky to miss out.

I love his enthusiasm but concerned about his lack of size.Going to HKR for a season loan will do him a lot of good and should give Leeds a good idea if he's going to make the grade at SL.

Muizz will need to play as the 3rd prop to be effective. People look at him and think hes too small but he is powerful and strong. 30 tackles last night. A season at KRnt will do him a lot of good if it happens.

O'Connor 49 tackles, very impressive. When he 1st came to the club he looked dreadful. He would be in my 17 going forward now, Walters also, obviously not for Sat tho.

The key for Muizz will be getting him to bulk up without affecting his speed and mobility too much. The likes of Clarkson and Walters probably put on too much bulk too quickly which pretty much ruined their potential.