Think Smiths been a positive so far this year but I think Lam will bring Powell back in and Tommy to 7. Smith has been great with the ball but poor defensively.

French
Marshall
Hardaker
Bibby
Burgess (last chance whilst Manfredi has another week getting up to speed in the reserves )
Hastings
Leuluai
Bryne
Powell
Bullock
ISA
Farrell
Partington

Smithies
Clark
Clubb ( again last chance before GBurgess is back)
Smith (in case of an injury)

Even if Burgess isn’t ready I’d have Havard or Kilner ahead of Clubb

Kilner has done well, no doubting that. Byrne and havard are still in front of him though i think at the current time, and they didn’t get picked last week so cant see how kilner gets in. Its 4 forwards on the bench and an arm wrestle, the result is more important than the performance.

Anybody thinking we should move French to 6 and Zak to fullback? No me neither.

Don't know how we will line up for the game at the weekend. Starting to pick a lot of injuries up now.

Ratu Naulago
Tuimavave
Houghton (Possibly)
Bowden
Satae (suspended)
Manu Ma'u
Jordan Lane
Savelio
Faraimo

Hard to predict our side!

1 - French
2 - Manfredi
3 - Hardaker
4 - Bibby
5 - Marshall
6 - Hastings
7 - Leuluai

8 - Bullock
9 - Powell
10 - Byrne
11 - Farrell
12 - Isa
13 - Partington

14 - Kilner
15 - Smithies
16 - Havard
17 - Clarke

To add to that, we were expecting Albert Kelly back after he picked up a 2 game ban from a Reserves game on the opening weekend. He missed the HKR and St Helens games, but apparently, he is still banned for this week due to some weird ruling in the RFL guidelines!!

Lam has a tendency to underestimate the amount of recovery time needed for injured players - he's now saying Burgess, Flower and Manfredi are 50/50 which likely means they wont play.

Smithies to start in place of O'Loughlin, Powell for Smith with Havard or Bryne coming in on the bench.

I was reading that, looks like he was available for your HKR match but you didn't pick him, somebody in your admin dept needs a telling off.

French
Marshall
Hardaker
Bibby
Burgess
Smith (give him as much game time as possible)
Hastings
Bullock
Powell/Leuluai
Byrne
Isa
Farrell
Smithies

Partington
Clark
Clubb (his 10 mins might be more effective as a sub)
Powell/Leuluai

I find Lams injuries updates bizarre, Powell and G Burgess were 50/50 for the cas game.

Seems to be over optimistic after a game about people coming back.

It’s because he’s inexperienced.