They have less missing than the last time we played them, which even then was less than they had missing against various sides the other month.

They have some big lads and talent, especially in the backs, and some thugs in the Pack, with Evil Edna and Mental Micky out theres still Brekyerlegs Bird. Kassiano looked to be struggling and Tomkins chiming in brings a lot of their points so fingers crossed.

Williame, Tomkins, McIlorum, Simon, Edwards, Batieri, Broughton, Moa, Tierney are some huge losses for Catalan and they’ll have to shift their squad around considerably.

Gigot
Romano Mead Langi Yaha
Bird Smith
Bousquet Da Costa Kasiano
Whitley Garcia
Casty

Goudmand Julien Albert Maria

Hazard a guess at their squad.

Just been told that Bousquet, Yaha and Kasiano also picked up knocks and may miss Friday.

With Catalans missing around 10 players we need to capitalise and take these two points just over a month ago we outplayed then at headingley so we should be able to do it again.


I'd go with

Walker
L.Briscoe
Newman
Sutcliffe
Handley
Lui
Myler
Seamanufagai
Lunt
Cuthbertson
Ferres
Martin
Merrin

Subs

Singleton
Ward/ Peteru
Dwyer
Donaldson

Unfortunate T.Brsicoe is out for season he's been one of our consistent players this year and had some good performances. I wouldn't risk Hurrell he was still in a boot yesterday and I think we have enough to beat Catalans without him with all there absentees so I rather save Hurrell for rest of our fixtures and hopefully Ward returns for this one and can get some minutes and help our pack out back end of season.

Even better if cats decide its not worth trying as they're missing so many....

Matty Smith joins Warrington from Catalan so that’s another missing for Friday.

Smith must have more compromising photos than Jimmy Lowes.

I might be tempted to put Oledski back in for Singleton, he should be fresh and will be a handful down the middle for them.

Agree re. Hurrell. I know he played with it to good effect at the weekend, but when a player has a structural type injury you're probably just going to make it worse (a la T Briscoe).

Has McLelland been confirmed for this loan deal then?

We are definately going to miss Hurrel, he's been our only point of attack for weeks!

From a catalan perspective this is a vital match ,but we are missing the banned 5 and have a lot of long term injuries-Broughton Tierney Moa Baitier1. Then there are last Saturday's injuries Yaha Bousquet-an absolutely crucial player and Kasiano ,about whom I know nothing in terms of whether they will play. As for Smith he has been close to hopeless ,but we really need him now.

So making the optimistic view that Bousquet Yaha and Kasiano can play we would go Gigot-Romano Mead Whitley Yaha -Bird Langi -Bousquet Da Costa Maria Garcia Jullien Casty- Plus Kasiano Goudemand Albert Belman. These are the only 17 players in our squad ,which appears to have 27 names, that remain