Doro back early for game and Ott visa must have come through. Lineup not as bad as expected.

No Jowitt or Moss in the squad so probsbly Ott in the halves.

Must be. Plenty of forwards in that squad now so should go alright up front. Just question marks over creativity.

Also, no need to play Hallas or GFS either.

Surprised Doro is supposedly fit again.

If Doro is fit (and it seems a gamble as he's barely 5 weeks into a 8 week lay-off) then id expect us to line-up something like below.

With us being adamant that we weren't going down the route of short term loans, and us now having 6 loan players (granted two are season long) feel like it puts a bit of pressure on the loan lads to perform and also EOC to get a result Friday.

McGowan
Myers
Arundel
Gill
Carr
Ott
Lilley
Doro
Souter
Lawrence
Wilson
Butler
Fulton

Davies
Appo
Green
Wood

Can't see how Hallas, Flanagan or Smith get in the team.

Doro can't be ready yet. He's got to be in the squad but not the team, just to put a ? in people's minds. So I would swap Smith in for Doro and Davies will start, so swap him for Wilson. But 3 short term loan players on the bench. Looks odd. I mean our homegrown middles who are possible would be Jamie Gill (?injured) and maybe Bailey Arnold? But the loan guys are proven at this level. You could argue that Wood doesn't look out of place at SL level.

Well heading into a Fax derby with an untested halfback pairing is far from ideal. Only bonus is that Halifax won't have a clue what to expect either!

I suppose if you're going to stick short term loan players in Prop and Wing are preferable positions. Wood is definitely class too I agree.

At least Ott has been training with the lads for a while (and hopefully at half bck with this in mind).

Just been watching the academy highlights from last night and the pitch looks very heavy.

Apparently club is cancelling all the juniors games they have planned for pre match and the LDRL game at half time. The weather has pretty much been as forecast this week, so surprised they have left it so late to cancel.

Last night was horrendous on that pitch. Really surprised they played an academy game on it last night, with a game on tonight as well. Didn't look great at the end at all.

Davies at stand off tonight. That's a bit out of leftfield

A bit leftfield but a good shout.
No Lawernce though