Price will believe that, pre-season, he has made the right choice in regard to playing Philbin at 13. He’ll also believe that it was the right thing to do to play Wrench ahead of Mamo at centre.

He and the players will be ashamed of their performance against Castleford. This week, having selected the same squad, Price will most likely go with the same 17 and give them a chance to ‘put things right’. No doubt we’ll see a big improvement in effort and one or two step changes in individual performances. Wrench, who barely played any competitive rugby in 2020, will have learned a lot, Charnley is unlikely to have two consecutive stinkers whilst Hughes and Cooper probably weren’t ready last week having missed the friendly. I expect that we’ll beat Leigh who, with the greatest respect, are likely to finish bottom of the table this season. But it won’t be convincing.

Even if we dominate the scoreboard we will still miss opportunities in attack and Leigh will likely expose some weaknesses in our defence. After the game we’ll hear about ‘a much better effort but still some way to go, clunky, early days etc’. We’ll beat Swinton the following weak no matter how many changes we make.

This is all papering over the cracks. Even when we tighten up our defence (an area where Price has succeeded) we have no attacking threat other than a kick to King. We don’t have a sword and shield, we have a shield and a butter knife.

Was watching the lads train at the stadium before, Mamo was training at right centre with Charnley outside him.
AND it might not mean anything but Lineham wasn't there and Ashton was training on the left wing outside of King.
I can't see Lineham being dropped and Charnley keeping his place if any winger was to be dropped so might not mean anything as a lot of the players weren't there, just what looks like the starting 13.

Lineham probably got lost on the way to the stadium.

Having thought about it after reading your post I think that you are (disappointingly) near the mark