Cunno is in the 19 for this weekend. So hopefully he's fit.

I wonder if be best to go with him off the bench and start with Bathau at hooker. And play Api and Sammut in the halves. Others I expect will know better if this would work.
Also maybe time to give Paul a run on the wing, and move Kear back to FB where he's more dangerous I think.
I don't have anything against Dixon, but like I said above let's see what Paul can offer. So I would leave out Dixon and Walker this weekend.

Hellewell not in the squad so I'm assuming either Kear to left centre and Walker returning at Full-back?
Or keep Kear at 1 and play Pearce-Paul in the centres?

Sorry didn't notice Hellewell was missing.
Also it claims on broncos twitter fed that Adebiyi is playing for Skolars this Saturday

Whoever starts we need to hit Rochdale hard from the word go - there's no 5 hour coach journey for us in the morning so no excuses!

It is an extra early start for Rochdale too,what with the hour change. Unless they are travelling down today that is.

Looking at thier twitter fed, it looks like they must have come down last night. As it showed a pic of the pic in a room with the caption of just going over details before making our way to the ground, it was taken about 2 hours ago roughly.
I expect most teams able to down here the night before as it's only one trip a season, compared to us going up where other week and paying for hotels.


As for the team for today's game. Cunno starts at hooker, but the surprise was Api and Barthau in the halves and Sammut of the bench. Also saw that Harrison was starting on the beach also

Sorry an update, according to thier twitter Harrison now starts and Adebiyi added to the bench as Garside pulled out, so must have picked up a knock in warm up.

Seems a typically poor performance to date... 0-4 after 25mins

UPDATE: Make that 0-8..... Awful

There are some really interesting half time scores at the mo

Sammut come off the bench and changed the game.... Brilliant

Missed this game, seems like it was an arm wrestle for the first hr
What changed it? Looks like us and KR made hard work of it today at the start.

Any outstanding performance today? How come we started so slow again.
Positives negatives?

Sammut changed it. Woeful first half Sammut came on and the game took shape

Poster on A.N. Other forum suggested that Rochdale had a, um, somewhat direct approach to the game. Who cares - it's 2 points.

Sort of brings into perspective the whole sammut discussion, or did he still not do enough to keep folk satisfied

Sammut will always be 'mercurial ', starting him from the bench seems to have had a positive effect

Rochdales game plan seemed to be to rough our players up at any opportunity. How many times did the game turn into a brawl. Encouraged by their coach I might add.
The referee was weak and failed to impose himself on the game. I do not think that I have ever seen a game with so many high tackles, three occurred within five minutes in the second half, my belief is that he should have put Rochdale on a team warning earlier in the game, which may have focus their attention to playing, not trying to knock our blocks off.
Sammuts introduction turned the game, we probably would have won without him, but not by such a score. A score which in truth did not reflect the game.
We are still our worst enemy, numerous unforced and schoolboy errors, we bombed two tries in the first half, dropping the ball, To kick the ball out from the restart is unforgivable. Once Jarrod came on the speed of the play of the ball improved and we became a better team.
We still have a lot of room for improvement, off to Wakefield next week where I hope to see a better display.