The Guardian said that Hughes was being rested.

I am going to guess that Akuola, Davis and Walker will all play. SP could easily replace Lama Tasi with Akuuola without risking his arm but not sure who else would make way.

What's up with Tasi's arm?

He's not got enough aggression taking the ball up and SP thinks he's too soft and armless apparently.

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

So potentially

Ratchford
Lineham
Atkins
King
Charnley
Austin
Patton
Hill/Cooper
Walker
Philbin
Currie
Livett
J Clark

Tasi
Sita
Davis
BMM

Clark & Hill/Cooper to miss out?

Hopefully Westwood, Goodwin & Mamo will then be able to come back and boost the squad at Easter.

I think I would be a little more conservative;

Drop Tasi, include Clark, and if the match goes our way bring Walker on from the bench for the remainder of the game.
Then perhaps give Cooper a rest this week (because Hill would probably tear Price's arm off if he tried to rest him).

With Jack Hughes not in the squad, Hill will most probably play otherwise we are without a regular skipper. It'll be interesting to see who takes the role if/when Hilly is off the field. Ratchford?

(Or.... with it not being a TV game, maybe we won't need somebody to have the mysterious VR decisions 'explained' to them.... ?)

I hope Akauola gets a run out, show what he can do

I cant believe what i'm reading tbh, have I missed something? are we playing Dewsbury or Barrow or something? We have a Super League fixture on Friday don't we? that should be treated with total respect. Okay we now know Hughes will be rested so after that now we go as strong as possible and treat the opposition as we would a Wigan, Saints or Leeds. Jeeez can you imagine the stink on here if we rested Hughes, Hill, Clark etc and lost the game! Even seen someone say rest Austin! I mean wowsers! A win please Wire and '
put your foot to their throats'

I don't think you've read everything properly, Hughes is being rested and the only other person (apart from 1 single comment about resting Hill) really being talked about being changed is Tasi. So a bit of an overraction.

I assure you I have read it properly, from this thread, other threads and facebook. More than 'over reaction' I would say 'opinion' is a better choice of word......the basis of a good forum. Some mention Walker to start and leave Clark out completely, as ive said someone suggested Austin sit this one out.

If you look at the problem from the coaches POV you see he is juggling several balls in the air;

Toby King needed tackling practice and to improve defence so he was stuck in the BR for a few games - weakening the side, he is not a BR forward. Jake Mamo needed game time to gel with the team so he has been squeezed in and played FB, Centre, Wing. He is clearly a wing that can cover other positions and moving him around is not ideal - but it plans ahead for injury problems. Matt Davis is a Championship player, but if he doesn't get any game time he will never develop. With the end of April approaching the coach needs to decide if he is going to keep fringe players like Akauola, so really they need a game. And then there is the mad Easter period with not just fatigue but a higher risk of injury to worry about.

I think the one thing that you can guarantee is that SP will pick a side he believes can beat the opposition, but outside of that you can expect change for all the above considerations. I think a few posters were having a bit of fun with some of their suggestions but you can bet that SP will certainly try and rest some players either by omission, or on the bench during the game.

Cheers Winslade, appreciate the sensible come back. I agree with all you say there, players do need to stay involved and ready, thus far it has usually been one man at a time for example like you highlight the Mamo situation which is absolutely fine. And as it looks here one player whether it be Akouala or Davis will come in for Hughes, no problem at all. I appreciate and apologise if I have picked up my 'mass changes' theme from other threads or social media and thrown it in here and confused this thread a little.

No problem, no need to apologise. Its a forum with lots of valid views. Some people will be very conservative, others rather more 'adventurous' in their picks. Fortunately none of us are the coach LOL.

would put clark on bench as a just in case