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No North Stand!!! Outrageous!!

Given the club will probably struggle to pay the win bonus of this farce of a game and the attendance/income it will generate let alone the stewarding costs, closing the North Stand is the right thing to do.

plus the big guns for Avignon have gone back to Oz so it will be a farce and a cricket score...

All costs covered by the RFL. This has been covered before i think. Plus there is some prize money apparently.

When 'all costs' I would expect that they just meant in terms of travel/accomodation, rather than the actual staging of the game along with win bonuses etc.

IMO we should rest some of our players for this one. Bearing in mind we have a few wingers spare but no extra centres to make the changes my team would be -

1.McGilvray
2.Clay
3.Maden
4.Laithewaite
5.Rowe
6.Riddy
7.Brierly
8.Ostick
9.Nico
10.Nash
11.Taylor
12.Hopkins
13.Briscoe

Bench

Thornley
Gallagher
Goulden
Bibey/Gardner

I would put Murphy in at centre but i wasn't sure he went to Oz

think duffs will be fit for this one so would be a good move to rest ridyard in my opinon

Ricky Murphy is still in Oz, I'd recall young Sam from Widnes and give him a game on the bench.

Maybe we could have Riddy or Duffy on't bench & give them 1 half each

What if they both want to play? what if the coach doesn't want to disrupt a winning team? all factors that have to be taken into consideration.