Keep Olbison in, hes been playing well

Tbf it's going to be unfair on whoever misses out from 19 if you base it on form. Got to go for strongest combination though

Olbison has got to play before Sykes or Royston. The lad is playing really well and is the future of our team.

Tackles better than them anyway!

rlPotter has headaches of a good kind ahead of Saints clashrl

Well i have to say when we play saints im never confident but if we play to what i know we can we could collect the 2. I just rnt very confident about doing it..... ill be still there though and hopefully we will turn up! whats everyone elses thoughts

We'll be givin 'em a Basil Fawlty-stylee good thrashing.

I would assume everyone else's thoughts are in the 6 page thread rlhererl

I could be wrong but I'm sure when we played Wire in the play-offs last year, Matty Smith wasn't names in the 19 man squad, but was still able to play

If someone gets injured during training you can call another player up, cant just swap it and change kit once uve named 19..you can however pick anyone from that 19 up until kick off...should be an hr before or when ref gets teamsheet..but seen a player pull up in warm up then been pulled out.

if someone has a genuine medical reason for being withdrawrn from 19 man squad thats fine. Its when teams abuse it, like leeds putting smith and not even making pretense that player they withdrew was injured, that it annoys me. In this case saints took a gamble that moore would be cleared. He wasnt and they shouldnt be allowed to replace him in 19 man squad. Not saying their going to try to, just going by precedent leeds set last year.

edit: seems like sts are allowed to ignore 19 man squad naming system same as leeds as moore has now been replaced in their squad for tomorrow. Whats the point of naming a 19 man squad if you can chop and change it at will?

thats fair enough. but now he's failed in getting ban overturned they've withdrawn him and named someone else in the 19 in his place. Should that be allowed or should they have to stick to the 19 they originally named and now have to pick a 17 from the remaining 18?

It's no different to replacing a player who's unavailable due to injury. They're allowed to do it within the rules so it's not a problem IMO

are they though? what are the actual rules with regard to the 19 man squad. I've never managed to find them anywhere. I was under impression it was more a guideline from RFL rather than an actual rule ( at least that was common comment when leeds did similar last year with lee smith). But I also though only valid reason to allow a player named in 19 to be changed was an injury.

I've had trouble finding anything about it either. Wanted to know where we stood last week if all 3 of our returnees brokedown Sat/Sun. All I found was this:

Squad Announcement System

• Before each Engage Super League and Carnegie Challenge Cup fixture, each Engage Super League club must announce a squad of 19 players it will choose from for that match 48 hours before a game.
• Squad announcements will be made by 2pm on the appropriate day.
• Clubs cannot announce players who are not both correctly registered with the RFL and confirmed as a member of a club’s first team squad.

Had a table with what day the squad is to be announced (Wed for Friday games). No mention of replacing people in the 19 man squad. Vague rules as ever!