Happy to see O'Carroll back in the squad and also Mossop getting a rest. My guess would be Hughes and 1 of Carmont/Marsh/Goulding to miss out (one starting at LC, the other off the bench as Goulding did last week when Madge decides to have a re-jig with spelling players)

Going off O'Carrolls latest tweet you get the feeling (if you read between the lines) that he'll be playing.

For those that don't have twitter, it says:

"Can't wait to play!"

1. Sam Tomkins
2. Josh Charnley
3. Joel Tomkins
4. Stefan Marsh
5. Pat Richards
6. Paul Deacon
7. Tommy Leuluai
8. Jeff Lima
9. Mike McIllorum
10. Paul Prescott
11. Ryan Hoffman
12. Harrison Hansen
13. Sean O'Loughlin

14. Liam Farrell
15. Gareth Hock
16. Eamon O'Carroll
17. Darrell Goulding

tomkins/marsh in centres

need to rest sam this week.

No way should we risk him the week before the final.

Team for me would be:

Richards
Charnley
Joel
Marsh
Goulding
Deacon
Tommy
Lima
Micky mac
Preccy
Hoff
H
Lockers

Hock
Hughes
O Carroll
Faz

Rest sam and carmont from that 19

agreed with that

great to see o'carroll back in the squad. Hopefully he can kick on and have an injury free career after all the bad luck he has had!

Sam
Charnley
Joel
Marsh
Pat
Deacon
Leuluai
Lima
McIlorum
Prescott
Hock
Hoffman
O'Loughlin

Farrell
O'Carroll
Goulding
Hughes

Hopefully we will kill the game away early then we can bring Sam or Richards off for Goulding, Bring Lockers off for Faz, Lima off for O'Carroll and Hoff off for Hughes. Prescott to do as many minutes as poss to prove fitness.

Can't agree more with resting Sam. One, to give him and rest and prevent injury, and two, we need a game to see how we can win a game without him. He may be missing for a big playoff game or, God forbid, a Grand Final. A lot of play goes through him. Its a ideal game to do 80 mins without him.

Sam Tomkins doesn't need a rest. The only reason you wouldn't pick him is because you're afraid he might get injured. I can understand that to a degree, but he doesn't need a rest and I would still play him. Injuries are an inevitable part of our game. You could rest him and he could pick up an injury in training. He's on a different level at the moment and I wouldn't take that momentum away from him. He plays for me.

Good to see O'carroll back. He'll not be anywhere near the CC squad as long as everyone is fit, but it's just good to see him back playing again. Gaz Hock, Liam Farrell and Paul Prescott will all be looking for a very good game to make a claim for the CC final team.

I love our squad rotation policy. It's working wonders. Finch, Mossop and Coley is good enough for me after Prescott, Deacon and Lima last week. Strongest squad possible with the players available. We've got a professional job to do on friday. Get that over with and we can focus on Wembley.

We [ishould[/i absolutely annihilate Bradford.

We need to wrap sam up in cotton wool for 10 days. Call it a rest or what ever you want but we need him for the final and i would not be risking any kind of injury to our best player this weekend

Impossible. He has to train and will have to do some contract in training regardless. I understand the sentiment, but he plays for me.

sam seems a durable lad anyway, i wouldn't be too worried about him playing and getting an injury, and he doesn't do much tackling/hit ups anyway so if he plays (which I fully expect him to) it'll be fine