Squad is

2. Dom Manfredi
4. Oliver Gildart
5. Liam Marshall
7. Tommy Leuluai
9. Sam Powell
10. Joe Bullock
11. Willie Isa
14. Oliver Partington
15. Morgan Smithies
19. Liam Byrne
20. Harry Smith
21. Ethan Havard
22. Jake Bibby
25. Joe Shorrocks
27. Kai Pearce-Paul
29. James McDonnell
30. Umyla Hanley
34. Brad O’Neill

Lam has basically ruled Dom out, no sign of Clark or Hank

Hanley
Bibby
Isa
Gildart
Marshall
Smith
Tommy
Havard
Powell
Bullock
KPP
Smithies
Partington

Byrne
Shorrocks
McDonnell
O’Neill

Well about 15 of us on our rugby WhatsApp group knew he wasn't playing Wednesday morning
So if Lam is giving that impression then he must be suffering from memory loss as well as being a liar.

It is what he said and he did seem miffed with Gildart from what I saw. Everything between Lam and the players feels weird at the minute.

I know w its what he said
He may be miffed, he may not be happy for whatever reason or he may be using the current fad of distraction technique to place fault somewhere else etc.

Either way, if I/we knew he wasn't playing dinner time ish Wednesday then so did Lam.

Hence my assertion that he did know before Thursday morning and it wasn't the complete shock he was making it out to be

I was suggesting that Lam was annoyed that Gildart pulled out at all, irrespective of when it happened.

Not questioning the fact you knew he wasn’t playing but just clarifying that is what Lam said. He is clearly not telling the truth and your comment about him deflecting blame feels spot on. He is sinking at the minute and looks totally out of his depth. In truth, he’s looked that way since he started. I’d love to know the players honest opinions on him as a coach, I could be wrong but I get the feeling they wouldn’t be very positive.