Hayes and/or Ratchford starts tomorrow

Williams rolled his ankle.

Powell can play half back/hooker/loose forward. So if you lost a three quarter (and you don't select Ratchford) you are moving Currie into the Centre position. I suppose you would then move Harrison to SR but ??? If you can't overpower opposition with 9 forwards I reckon having your 10th best forward subbing won't make much difference. I'd also argue that Ratchford would probably be more useful in most games than say Dudson or Holroyd.

Ratchford is capable of what??

Really can`t give you an argument about Dudson. His signing has been a fiasco, and McNamara knew what he was doing when he released him with Drinkwater and Kasiano.

We had the worst two centres in Super League last season.

I don`t want to see Ratchford in our 3/4 again.

A terrible trio and we’ve lost the only one who had a modicum of effectiveness/ability. I hope Sam stays for more than 2 seasons as I can’t see he him signing such utter dross.

Tomorrows 17, barring any injuries in the warm up, will be......

Dufty
Ashton
King
Wrench
Thewlis
Drinkwater
Hayes
Vaughan
Walker
Harrison
Fitzgibbon
Holroyd
Currie

Musgrove
Powell
Philbin
Wood

Williams out for 4 weeks approx

Well , this is going to be interesting

I heard it’s his back, not ankle?

Williams' injury is a big blow, this is a really great opportunity for Hayes though. Outshine drinkwater for 4 weeks and hopefully retain his place when Williams comes back.

Great to see Holroyd, Hayes and Wood given a shot.
Last year we would have had Matautia in the halves and Darryl Clark playing at 13 if we had similar injuries regardless of players missing in the opposition.
That is exactly how you create true competition for places.
I understand the argument that we need to be careful about not over exposing the younger players but they will never be ready without the exposure at this level.
It is now up to the established players to step up and make sure that they lead the younger players.

Back of the ankle?

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That's going to be an interesting dynamic at half-back. We won't have an attacking half-back, but should control the game a little more if our forwards can get us up the field. I have a feeling the next few weeks will be like a Price team (out of necessity) making yards and putting the ball in the opposition corner for 80 minutes. I can't see us scoring many tries. Whether we can win will depend on whether we can get near enough to the line to pin the other team back.