Crosby was great v Catalans, quite surprised he was as good as he was after his lay off.

For the Wire game the backs select themselves.
Forwards I'd go with -
Crosby, McIlorum, Mossop, Farrell, J Tomkins, Bateman.
Bench - O'Loughlin, Clubb, Flower & Bowen.

The selction of Bowen is if we get an injury at half back, loose or hooker.
Bowen on, Rocky to stand off and the others as appropriate. If not Bowen then Tautai with Lockers coming in anytime there's an injury.

Read the top paragraph again. Sarginson has shown us promise at FB before, and it allows us to bring one of the best try scorers in the league (Charnley) back into the team and start bedding next year's halfback partnership (Hampshire and Smith, hopefully) a year early. Before Powell got injured Wane used Williams as an iinterchange 9 and commented favourably on it after the game, very much looked like that was going to be the plan going forward before Powell got injured. Crosby was good against Catalans but has been poor for a good while before that. I'd be very surprised if Tautai gets dropped for him. A week or two at Workington wouldn't do him any harm at all

Another top performance from Crosby. He's averaging around 9 metres per carry for the last 2 games. Would like to see him do more carries, but we don't want to overload him with work. Look at Saints and how much they rely on Walmsley, an injury to him and their "best pack in the world" would be boll@@ed!
Is it any coincidence that since Crosby has come back from injury he's looked a different player. I thought he really improved as the season went on last year, so was disappointed with his form before his injury. Flower and Mossop will only get better as they get more into the swing of things. I think our problems at prop have been vastly exaggerated, except the performance at Leeds.

He gets stopped far too easy, we need real props like we used have back in the day (Cowie, O'Connor, Malem, Howard etc)

I though he had a good game against Wire. He looks much better in his past two games than last season or early this season.

He's also added a little more passing to his game which is a good thing too.