Could be a close affair in these conditions. Newcastle showed they're very dangerous on a fast track. Squad here - https://t.co/9Iyjjryx5D

Could be a close affair in these conditions. Newcastle showed they're very dangerous on a fast track. Squad here - https://t.co/9Iyjjryx5D

From my recollections of them at their place they are a good side.

To be fair and it's view formed from a distance obviously, I'm surprised they've lost as many as they have. That said, and assuming we don't enter the game in the same sloppy, half-d way as we did in Coventry, we should beat them. In fact, on a wider note, let's hope that Coventry is going to be the last time that this lesson needs to be learnt this season - though we do seem to have some recurrent memory problems.

Only 18 named this week.
Does that mean we may see a new face or am i reading too much in to it?

I've just mentioned the website balls up to my colleague and he said the Twitter account earlier put out a 19 man squad. Shortly after he deleted it, and put up the 18 man squad instead. George Milton was the man originally in the post who wasn't in the corrected one.

Wonder if Cas are letting us loan out James Green (I think that's the name - not up on SL anymore )

I agree. I can only presume that they were very much "up for it" when we played them at their place, because if they showed that level of intensity in the rest of their games they'd surely be higher in the table.

I can’t understand why Johnson is not in the team,, if a back goes down Johnson can slip straight in there, not sure what this lad has to do to keep his place, and yet we continue to play Gibson who can barely pass wind

Maybe Johnson has a knock. Flanagan played 35 mins for reserves and scored a try. Hallas to miss out tomorrow ?

I would think playing Flanagan in the reserves to get some fitness, while everyone else is fit, would be more of an indication of him not playing tonight and coming back next week.

Giving Flanagan, "20 mins", in the reserve match before playing him against Newcastle was mentioned as an option by Leigh Beattie in his recent interview. Not sure whether playing 35 mins meant it went well or not!

Gorgeous George didn't expect to play tonight after playing in the reserves, he mentions it in Micks interview-ette on Twitter herehttps://twitter.com/OfficialBullsRL/status/1014980435431043072rl

He does say he would do it if asked however.

Great defence. No ideas in attack.

What's happened to Greg McNally ?