Kearney, Halley, L'Estrange, Hall, Lynch, Sheriffe, Scruton, Finigan, Kopczak, Olbison, Menzies, Reardon, Godwin, Crookes, Sykes, Whitehead, Worrincy, Langley, Platt.

Saints -
1. Paul Wellens, 2. Ade Gardner, 3. Matt Gidley, 5. Francis Meli, 7. Kyle Eastmond, 9. Keiron Cunningham, 10. James Graham, 11. Tony Puletua, 12. Jon Wilkin, 13. Chris Flannery, 14. James Roby, 15. Bryn Hargreaves, 16. Scott Moore, 18. Matty Ashurst, 22. Andrew Dixon, 24. Jonny Lomax, 25. Jake Emmitt, 28. Shaun Magennis, 30. Jamie Foster.

Injuries - Nick Fozzard, Leon Pryce, Sia Soliola, Maurie Fa'asavalu, Gary Wheeler, Jamie Ellis, Chris Dean & Maurie Fa'asavalu.

is eastmond likely to play?

Most probably. He said last week the Semi was a week too soon and it'd be more likely this Friday for a comeback.

IMO we need him we're lacking serious creativity and leadership in attack

Why don't we just put the academy out

Ah, the old favourite...

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I think if its done right there is no harm as we've shown this season with Lomax, Foster, Emmitt, Magennis, Ashurst, Dixon etc... the likes of Penny were allowed to get big headed and their feet weren't kept on the ground therefore things went wrong badly.

Indeed, and we've seen players such as Whitehead, Donaldson, Crossley, Crookes, Wardle, Addy and Finigan all get their shot in the first team this year, so you can't say that the Bulls aren't giving youngsters a chance - but this is different to 'just putting the academy team out'.

Interesting that Nero is missing.

not really. if he's not staying and we have nothing except pride to play for we might as well use the rest of season to have a look at likes of crookes in spot. At least we get something useful out of remaining matches then.

He's named in the 19.

We have also lost Paul Clough for 4 weeks with a shoulder injury and James Graham is a doubt as he sustained a back injury in the match against Leeds and is having a scan this week. He's named in the 19 but there is a question mark over him.

We never know from one week to the next who is playing and we've gotten used to it. Either we'll be up for the match or not, either you will win it or we will. Who knows! I hope it stays dry and the rugby league is good. The Bradford fans are always great, so that's one thing guaranteed!

There's at least one other player that I understand are leaving who is in there.

Not saying I disagree with it, just that I find it interesting they're leaving him specifically out but not others.

maybe a case of not leaving others out until its announced their leaving. only reason I could see for doing that is to keep it quiet that they are leaving until we have replacements lined up and ready to announce. Salford maybe forced our hand a little and were going to announce nero anyway so we had to release news he was leaving, although technically we must have given him permission to talk to other clubs otherwise salford would have broken anti-tamper deadline (meaningless as that is these days )

Why we have nether done that before.

I thought they were claiming Nero had an injury, groin was it?

Whether this is right or not we will never know and i also thought we had to allow Salford to make announcement so presumably we could have said no to releasing the news re his move