Stone says all week he wants those first graders not yet to feature in pre season to have a run out. He then names a academy side to play Workington.

No Leeming
No Symonds
No Seb
No Jerry
No Darnell (Expected him to play considering the didnt against Wakey)
No Wakeman

Symonds surely wont be considered against Hull FC. Not sure on Wakeman either. As he played in the WC he wont have had much of a pre season again....how fit will he be?

If fit, the other 4 have to play, however.

Team selection also suggests Matty English wont be considered for round 1. He has been our best forward in both pre season games so far.

The fact Dickinson and Smith are not playing this game as well suggests to me we have definitely got a few more injuries than we are making out.

yep its a strange one

we will just have to wait and see the sqaud for hull i suppose

but those that havent played a pre season game have to be doubts and not the best prep to go into a sl game without any minutes under your belt is it if they do

The squad play full contact games in training anyway so those who aren't playing will still be getting what they need, just not the matchday experience. This was something that was explained by the coaching staff last year after folk we're worried we don't play enough friendlies.

Lost 40-10, anyone any idea who went well? Nothing on twitter feed but the score

Basically an academy game. 4 first teamers playing in English, Roche, Simpson and Ormsby.

Id say this standard is about Ormsbys level, no idea why hes still at the club. Our academy wingers are better.

Jared Simpson went off injured again from what I understand.

A Workington fan i've spoke to said Ormsby was shocking, Matty English got high praise as did a lot of the lads for keeping the score down and having a go.

Ormsby wasn't even playing but might as well give him a hard time anyway.

Either way that level is his standard of rugby.

No way on earth is he even been considered for the Hull game, surely?

Apologies then, was just going by what i was told and someone said it was him.

Yep I’ve watched them in training and it’s full contact- but no way is it of the same intensity or length of a game.
We are going into the season undercooked with many of our key players having not played a minute of a preseason game- if they weren’t necessary clubs would t play them!

Oh dear

this game prob got more coverage than the wakefield one!

Have to agree with Jools. Every other SL clubs has friendlies. We are the only club who does what we do.

I feel either 1 of 2 scenarios coming this week.

1. We will have 4/5 players playing who haven't played any pre season games and wont be at the races.

2. We will have a very weak squad and it will come apparent we have far more injuries than we have made out. What Stone will says is "We have a few blokes nursing slight knocks, we decided to give them another week" and the mystery will continue. Tom Symonds for example was meant to have a scan early this week, what was the outcome? We will probably find out in League Express...they are more reliable than the actual club.

That said I hope im very wrong!