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Wolves host Leeds Rhinos at The Halliwell Jones Stadium on Friday night, 8pm. Head of coaching and rugby Tony Smith names his 19-man squad prepared to face the current league leaders.

Wolves Squad

10 Roy Asotasi
4 Ryan Atkins
3 Chris Bridge
17 Ben Currie
22 Brad Dwyer
19 Anthony England
25 Ben Evans
18 Rhys Evans
15 Ben Harrison
9 Micky Higham
8 Chris Hill
23 James Laithwaite
5 Joel Monaghan
14 Michael Monaghan
7 Richie Myler
29 Gene Ormsby
6 Stefan Ratchford
21 Glenn Riley
1 Matthew Russell

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No Grix.

I know we are missing four great players in Westwood and Waterhouse, Grix and Wood but thats not a bad squad really!

What Smith will go with:
Russell
Rhys
Bridge
Atkins
Joel
Ratch
Myler

What I'd go with:
Russell
Rhys
Joel
Atkins
Ormsby
Bridge
Ratch

Russell
Rhys
Bridge
Atkins
Joel
Ratch
Myler
Hill
Higham
England
Laithwaite
Currie
Harrison


Ben Evans
M Monaghan
Glenn Riley
Asotasi


Will take a big effort to pick up a win

I think this is what the team will be. Maybe switch Bridge and Ratchford.

Light at 2nd row.

More reason to choose Ratch and Bridge in the halves.

Dwyer and either Myler (my want) or Riley to miss out

I would like to see TS change as little as possible, a forced replacement for Westwood and leave the rest as it has been for the past few weeks. We look like we have finally started to click and this Friday is a huge test I don't want to see wire running around looking clueless again I have seen enough of that this season already and we have been threatening to come good recently.

A win on Friday and I may start to think we could maybe challenge this season after all.

Russell
Ormsby
Joel
Atkins
Rhys
Bridge
Ratch
Hill
M Monas
England
Laithwaite
Currie
Harrison


Ben Evans
Micky Higham
Myler
Asotasi

Higham on bench purely because of the flare he will bring on after 30 minutes.

Russell
Ormsby
J.Mon
Atkins
Rhys
Myler
Ratch
------------
Hill
Higham
Harrison
Laithwaite
Curry
Bridge
-------------
Ben
M.Mon
Riley
England
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Dwyer
Asotasi
to miss out

I'm getting bored of saying this, but why does Myler warrant a straight return to the starting line-up on the basis of a brief warm-up stint off the bench against a poor Wakefield? Why change?

Crucial to the outcome will be how well we nullify Hardaker and Hall, and how much our pack imposes itself - the latter will be one hell of an ask given the troops we have out. On this basis we need extra forward power so that means no bench spot for Mr Myler for me I'm afraid.

Russell
Joel
Evans
Atkins
Ormsby
Ratchford
Bridge
Hill
Higham
England
Laithwaite
Currie
Harrison
---
M. Monas
B Evans
Asotasi
Riley

Easy for me. This ^^^

Well if you are worried about forward power, just pray that Monas is fit.

I'm praying Monas is fit for all kinds of reasons. We need him to lead, rouse and lift the youngsters, and produce a personal performance of the kind we once took for granted.

Spot on. We do take Monas for granted. His workrate is immense. We need a leader on Friday to drive us forward and to keep us on the front foot.