No, not him. Apparently its a busy time for him atm.

King to replace Russell on the right wing, after a hasty recall from Wigan?

If we have to be serious I’d say Clark on the bench, or at a push Wrench as 18th Man. Unless we’ve signed one of the Hull players who didn’t make their 17 yesterday. Maybe Dean is back due to a half-back issue.

PS hope everyone making the trip managed to get there okay. I know some had to rearrange flights via Barcelona then drive up yesterday.

My concern for the team is that they have only travelled today. And it looks like a 10 or 11 am flight to perpignan.
Yes, it's only 1, maybe 2 hours in flight time. But to be safe. Would it not have been easier to spend the extra for a hotel. Rest easy in the hotel and get there fresh as opposed to possible flapping around and delays in getting there to prepare on the day. Plus airport times on the day. Yes it would be chartered. But faffing around at 8 or 9am in the airport. So possibly waking up at 5 or 6am to get ready to travel to what I presume was Manchester Airport. I'd rather they take that away from the players. Fly at say 2pm yesterday. Get there for 7 and have a team meal before resting up for today.

Fair point but I think I’d take a day-return private flight to France over a coach trip to Hull along the M62 any day of the week!

They'll have to be in the squad so there is a bit of a limit to the big surprise?

You can make changes to the squad but you have to accept a reduction in the number of interchanges as a result.

Green on the bench. I guess that’s the surprise.

*coff coff*

Look at the name

Does anyone know if the game is on bbc radio Merseyside? It advised on the bbc rugby league page, but there doesn’t appear to be any commentary

rlhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/rugby-league/65103304rl
Scroll down the link is weirdly in the middle of the Leigh Salford score page.

Shame he never got to play,twice we have done this now. Don’t pick them if you not going to play them. Can’t say well it was a tough game how many of the Catalan team were playing their first game.

It was the correct decision...imagine he went on and made a mistake that cost us the game, it could have dented his confidence.

Instead he has had the experience of being involved and will no doubt get another chance in the coming weeks.

Wire did have a hotel booked. They went straight there after arriving to pre-game prep. They didn’t leave till around 10.30-11 so there was no 5am wake ups. Guessing they landed around 1-2 BST.
They landed home about 9:30pm BST. They used a private jet, all in all, the whole trip done with 11 hours.