Good luck to the led , but baggage springs to mind

the amount of clubs he has been at

dont think 3 clubs , one of them an amateur one, is particularly excessive. wakefield agreed to swap with hyde because they had a more pressing need at the time for a fullback than a half IIRC. strange how any player that leaves wakefield gets tarred with this bad attitude comment ( and yet if they return to wakey later they are suddenly world beaters again

).

And imo its not necessarily a bad thing for a halfback to have a bit of attitude - certainly hasnt done brough any harm.

Don't disagree with that. I'd personally start with Sykes/Kearney and Wardle in the centre, then bring Wardle off move Sykes there and put Southerwood in with Kearney. It keeps as much experience out there as possible to help both Wardle and Southernwood adjust.
If it isn't working swap back.

I'm going to stick my kneck out here and say I think he'll start contrary to the press releases from the club.

I don't know why I think that it's just a feeling I have.

rememember reardons a doubt too. If he doesnt play then I'd expect wardle to be used on wing. In which case when southernwood comes on we could drop sykes to FB and move halley to wing to allow us to bring wardle off and keep as many experienced players on pitch as possible. whichever way we do it I wouldnt pair southernwood with sykes. We need to keep kearney in the halves for creativity which sykes has shown no signs off.

be very surprised if southernwood starts. hopefully he'll get a decent stint both halves but going on macca's past history off debuting youngsters wouldnt be surprised if he only gets 10 mins towards back end of 2nd half.

Think its 4 clubs { rhinos) scholaship

my point is baggage

connor murphy just tweeted the following

'Cain starts cos Wardle misses out through injury. Menzies moves to centre, BK to full back, Halley to wing, Godwin to loose forward.'

Not bad, not bad at all I'd say!

Some nice touches, some good, accurate passes and he looks to have a fair amount of agility too.
I'd be tempted to keep him in the squad for next week after that showing.

Agreed. Got more confident as the game went on. Some nice touches. Looks a bit slight but as he grows that'll sort itself out.

Very sound debut I thought. He showed a few nice touches and didn't make any glaring errors. In fact I think all our young guys stood up well today.