Jamal didn't play at the weekend.

by coincidence I watched his youtube u16s highlights yesterday, he was involved in some great tries. things change with age, but his potential is massive, hooker or half back.

He played in the first game after his loan began, but not the second.

Typical that Butterworth's chance comes when he's away on loan (Flanagan out for 6-8 weeks). I wonder if we can persuade Batley to let him come back early?

Looked good in the Dewsbury game. Scored one and set one up. Really hope he gets some game time when he comes back.

Don't think it's up to them. Loan rules state it must be for a minimum of 4 weeks / 30 days / 1 month (I forget the exact timeframe, but it's one of those). I don't think clubs can just tear that rule up, otherwise everyone would just ignore it in order to get someone in short term when they were needed.

Isn't that what loans are for?

It stops big clubs exploiting the loan market, using a sort of open dual reg system. Without that rule, you could have a Super League team with a big squad having it's first choice 17 playing, then 5 of their next best playing for Fax, the next 5 playing for Fev, the next 5 at Bradford etc etc., then the week after 2 of them could be back playing for the parent club whilst the loanees and the two they've dropped all go off to different clubs than they were at the week before. It would be anarchy.

It can be daft enough as it is with some players turning out for 4 or 5 different clubs in a season, but without that minimum loan period, they could turn out for 30 clubs.

It's not far off that at the moment. I'm sure that Oledzki played for us, Leeds and Fev and Murray played for us, Fax and Rochdale last season, he may even have played for Salford too.

I take your point anyway.

Oledski was loaned to us for a month at a time and Fev are DR with Leeds his parent club. It's exactly how HC outlined it. Loans are min 1 m and can be with anyone, DR is with your partner club and is week by week

Well one week of his minimum loan has already happened, and since we don't have a game this week, then it doesn't matter - and the second week ticks off...

Two more games for us to manage - and after all, we do have Hallas and Halafihi - then he come back match-fit and battle-hardened for action!

I'm more bothered about the injury to Bustin. Any word on how long he'll be out?

OK, I like Bustin - but looking at the squad list, we currently have 8 other props

8 Liam Kirk
10 Steven Crossley
17 Ross Peltier
19 Mikey Wood
28 James Davies
30 Jamal Goodhall
31 Oliver Wilson
34 Jordan Andrade

Should be fine

So long as everyone is fit for 22nd July.

June 17th at Whitehaven won't be a cake walk...