With the Sivo injury let’s hope it’s not long term/ season ending but it didn’t look good. One thing it means we will be able to get the rest of our strike players in the backline all in the starting 13 now you’d imagine Arthur can even go with.

FB-Miller
RW-Hall
RC- Newman
LC- Connor
LW- Handley

Or

FB- Connor
RW- Miller
RC- Newman
LC- Handley
LW- Hall

I personally do think Connor is a better all round full back than Miller plus a left side
Of Handley & Hall could be lethal and Arthur Clearly wants Handley at centre hence him getting the 4 shirt. Time will tell but the main thing is I hope Sivo has a speedy recovery and that he doesn’t turn into Fusitua 2.0

Shame about Sivo. Let's hope it's a few weeks rather than a few months. You can't get carried away about friendlies, but in a very physical contest, with a fair bit of injury adversary, we got the better of the best team in the league. There's cause for a bit of hope, I think.

At first I thought Sivo had done his ankle but I wouldn`t be surprised if it`s his ACL which could be season ending.

Sivo did not look good at all, I wouldn't be surprised if its a long lay off - hopefully not.

I think Arther will stick with Ash in the Centres and use Riley Lumb on the wing who I thought looked good when he came on.

We are certainly fitter than this point last year and we restricted a veery good Wigan pack for metres, we certainly look better equipped in the forwards this year.

As much as it caused a bit of a stir The Jake Connor signing could be a bit of a master stroke if he can get some consistency out of him, he looks to be enjoying his rugby again.

Jack Sinfield doing stints at 9 isn't a bad call either, it gets him game time and in fairness he looks to have bulked up a bit and wasn't getting dominated in defence.

Think round one line up will be

Jake Connor
Riley Lumb
Ash Handley
Harry Newman
Ryan Hall
Brodie Croft
Matt Frawley
Mik Oledski
Andy Ackers
Keenan Palasia
James Bentley
James Mcdonnall
Cam Smith

Jack Sinfield
Sam Lisone
Tom Holroyd
Morgan Gannon/Cooper Jenkins

Agreed, if Ned McCormack and Simpson weren't injured / returning to fitness, then they may have been options.

I think it will be one of Lisone, Gannon or Jenkins to miss out. A tough call.

For me, Lisone should be the one at risk of missing out in Rd1.

Sivo is done for the season. ACL.

I agree with this. Just too many errors for me.

If Arthur stays true to his word then Holroyd should get in to the 17 ahead of Lisone based on yesterday`s performance.

In terms of covering the loss of Sivo. I’d imagine Lumb gets first go. Once Miller is back we could put Handley back on the wing and Jake in the centre.

Also thought Jack went well at 9 and he might get a little run there while Jarrod is out.

Don`t think it`s been mentioned but I was disappointed with the crowd of around 5500.
When you would think at least 10000 would be there.
I`m sure that was down to the weather compared to the Saturday and Monday it was horrendous.
Shame Handley suffers financially as a result.

Testimonials and friendlies have always attracted poor crowds (other than Boxing Day).