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Walsh and Greenwood return.
Saints' 17 will come from:

3. Jordan Turner, 4. Josh Jones, 5. Adam Swift, 6. Travis Burns, 7. Luke Walsh, 8. Mose Masoe, 9. James Roby, 10. Kyle Amor, 12. Jon Wilkin, 13. Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook, 14. Alex Walmsley, 15. Mark Flanagan, 17. Mark Percival, 18. Luke Thompson, 19. Greg Richards, 21. Joe Greenwood, 22. Matty Dawson, 25. Andre Savelio, 34. Shannon McDonnell.

Daryl Powell will choose his Castleford side from:

3. Jake Webster, 4. Michael Shenton, 5. Justin Carney, 6. Ben Roberts, 7. Luke Gale, 8. Andy Lynch, 9. Adam Milner, 10. Grant Millington, 11. Oliver Holmes, 12. Matt Cook, 13. Nathan Massey, 15. Ryan Boyle, 16. Junior Moors 17. Scott Moore, 20. Denny Solomona, 21. Liam Finn, 24. Mike McMeeken, 26. Ashley Gibson, 33. Ryan Bailey.

The game kicks off at 8pm and the referee is Ben Thaler.

Thompson back as well. Our strongest squad for a while. Looking good.

Great stuff. If all of those players are fit and ready to go then there will be some selection headaches for KC. Past form tells us that if Walsh is fit then KC will probably ease him in from the bench, but once he's ready to start games then there will be some difficult choices to make in the back row. I reckon something like the following:

1. McDonnell
2. Dawson
3. Percival
4. Turner
5. Swift
6. Burns
7. Wilkin
8. Amor
9. Roby
10. Walmsley
11. Greenwood
12. LMS
13. Jones

14. Thompson
15. Masoe
16. Savelio
17. Walsh

Meaning no places for Flanagan and Richards. Who's he going to leave out when Wilkin is no longer in the halves??

Castlford to get thrashed in this game then

I'm taking nothing for granted. We're on a roll, but we've had some very tough games over the last few weekends and Cas away is almost never a straightforward fixture.

Cas at home could beat our strongest squad. Foolery to think we'll thrash them. They are a classy side, Millington is class.

SMD
Dawson Percival Turner Swift
Burns Wilkin
Amor Roby Walmsley
LMS Savelio
Jones

Walsh Greenwood Richards Masoe

Really tough selection headache!

Is it really wise for two lads on return from injury to both start on the bench, especially if they're not totally over the injury. That combined with Masoe's limited minutes means we could effectively be running with a smaller squad.

Could be a close game for the first 60 mins, but if we play similar to last Friday we should have enough to get the points. Ref Thaler had a stinker for us against Salford but its better then Mr Child I suppose.

i'd definitley have savelio on the bench..the only thing i dont like is thaler in the middle he always seems to play against us..(just like ian smith used to do)..

To very strong squads I really fancy us cas to turn you over it will not be easy but I feel we are starting hit top form and on our home ground we are very tough to beat but should be a great game again.

Need a good start against Cas or they could blow us away in the 1st 20 minutes if we're not careful. They're in great form. If I was Cunningham I'd be tempted to stick with the same 17 apart from swapping Fleming with Walsh, and give Greenwood another weeks training. We're not short of 2nd rowers at the moment.

I hope Walsh plays from the start, and for the full 80 minutes. If he's not fit enough to do that then he shouldn't be playing IMO. We can't carry him and Greenwood and Mosoe on the bench as we will need to play with more than 16 players this week simply because of the energy the Wigan game will have taken out of the team. Greenwood is coming back after a very long lay off so starting him from the bench is a wise decision as he will take a while to get match fit. Hopefully he returns with the form he had when he broke his leg.

Potential banana skin this game. Cas are hitting their straps and we have just had a bruising encounter with the thugs. I hope Roby is ok. I notice that once again Cunningham doesn't appear to be planning to interchange him in spite of two bandaged hands and hobbling towards the back end of the game last week.

You obviously don't know much about returning from injury if you think it's a case of Walsh should play 80 or not at all. Makes me laugh how it's wise to start Greenwood from the bench but Walsh simply has to start. You can't make it up.

Also, Charnock was due to play on the bench Friday but was ill. We therefore had no option to interchange him.
Cunningham is well aware of the need to spell Roby.

But you continue with this nonsense you keep on spouting. Bring back Royce!!