There's more snow forecast for tomorrow evening, so might be worth setting off a bit earlier

I don’t quite understand the negativity from you lot.

Should be a great game and certainly not as comfortable as some of your predictions suggest! Walmsley a big loss, albeit I appreciate you have a fair few out yourselves.

McDermott has confirmed Cam Smith will play, and it looks like Oldezski will play too.

I'm looking forward to seeing how these 2 go tomorrow against a Saints side bang in form

I agree, I think we’ll be competitive. You’ll probably run away with it towards the end. I always enjoy watching Roby play

Golding / Walker
Briscoe Watkins Handley Hall
Moon Myler
Mullally Parcell Singleton
Ablett JJB
Delaney

Dwyer Oledzki Smith Ormondroyd

That’s my guess anyway by the Mcdermott press conference.

This is an ideal opportunity for Smith to show us the potential he has. We need players like him to come on and grab their opportunity with both hands.

Will he get an opportunity tho? He might be on bench but at most he could get 5 mins. I suspect Walker will be on the bench instead of Oledski

Not sure it`s negativity or realism.
For me Moon does not do it at SO and whilst the forwards will give it a go we really need the likes of Garbutt, Cuthbertson and Ward playing to give us that edge.
For me the forwards we have out there will probably tire in the last 15 minutes especially if the coach doesn`t use the bench well maybe due to the inexperience he has to play with.
Then there`s Watkins and his goal kicking.
He might get 100% or he might get 50% you never know what is going to happen.
I still think 37-10 to Saints unless you have a bad day and we are exceptional.

Agree his agent says he is attending Oulton Raiders U9 training?

That tweet was yesterday afternoon talking about that night (Thursday) not Friday. Even if he isn't in the 17 I'd imagine he'll be there in case of any late withdrawals or injuries in the warmup.

could be a make a break moment for smith, is he a real talent great potential then needs to show some tonight, otherwise league one career ahead.
every first team opportunity he has had so far when given game time he has not shown anything.

My mistake

Going to be a long night tonight with that bench and plenty of our starting pack are going to get flogged

I Hope that we give both Smith and Oledzki some decent game time tonight and don't leave them on the bench apart from a 10 minute cameo appearance each

With Walters and Walker also on the bench then IMO we can't be hiding too many players in the dugout and we must surely give them all a go tonight