Same here. It probably is bad luck. It’s just frustrating when there has been an effort to sign a reasonable squad given all the financial restrictions we have, and yet what seems like every week we hear that we’ve lost another player from a training incident. Hopefully it will settle down a bit going forward and these players will start returning from injury.

Have we heard any timeframe for Doyle or is it a ‘knock’?

I think Kear described Doyle’s injury as a knock. Hopefully, missing the Leeds game will be sufficient to allow him to recover.

Are we not including the 3 Leeds loan players?

Has it actually been officially confirmed they're coming?

I’d go for:

Kear
Dawson-Jones
R. Evans
Gill
Foggin-Johnston
Patton
Jowitt
Crossley
Flanagan
B. Evans
Murphy
Scott
O’ Connor

Johnson
Walker
Wallace
Scurr

Without the Leeds lads. I’d go for Baldwinson at prop. Ben Evans to loose. Fleming on the bench maybe, or that young half to cover 9 or 6 for a bit to give Flanagan a break.

In the post match interview JK was asked if they were coming and he said he'd spoken to Richard after the game and would phone him in the early part of the week. Holroyd and Walters are injured already so it'll be interesting to see how this pans out.

Thanks. Think Holroyd was more likely to figure in their first team than Walters so I can see them holding back Mustapha as he's the most experienced of the three.

It would push also push O'Connor nearer the 19, even if he didn't make the matchday squad. He's exactly what we need on the right edge, possibly more than Mustapha and Johnson at the moment, if Doyle is fit.

You think Murphy is past it then?

Yes. And by some distance.