Just reading the list of potential bans on Serious about rugby league and they list Cade Cust. I didn’t notice it at the game but I watched the replay last night and I presume they’re referring to a challenge he made, where he lifted a Wire player (Thewliss I think it may have been) and slammed him to the floor. He had him a pretty safe position, so he could be ok but you just never know. The Thornley one I’ve seen mentioned was a bad read, rather than a late challenge as such. That would be a harsh ban but again, you just never know.

No charges for either club by the looks of things. Hull KR have had Vete banned and Matty English from Huddersfield has been banned, so they’ll miss the other semi.

Right decision on Percival as well - the Salford player slipped turning upper body contact into head contact through no fault of the defender.

Just been reading that Lomax is out for a while and potentially the season.

If he plays he plays. One less excuse for the Red Vee conspiracy theory?

Really looking forward to the day and the match.

Lomax/Dodd out challenging but not terminal by any stretch. We’ll be clunky but our defence gives us a chance of winning any game - albeit part of that defence is domination of field position which has a lot to do with your halves and their decision making.

Should be a cracker - bring it on.

Agree, don't forget Wigan are without Leuluai and Powell, two of the best defenders in their "spine" positions, should be fun.



As in all games you go with what you've got and hope you can work a game plan around those players available.

Read the minutes re. Percival and rightly wasn't up for the tackle it was the coming together afterwards, fortunately for him/unfortunately for us it was just pushing and shoving, no punches thrown

Looking forward to this, looks like your pack, depending where Roby plays, is at full strength and that's obviously where you've had the better of us, I thought on GF we handled Walmsley as well as we've done for ages but Paasi absolutely mullered us when he came on.
If we can live with them especially around the interchanges then I reckon we've got the pace to really give you a contest.
Like you said should be a cracker

It’s good to see the disciplinary showing a bit more sense. There’s every chance that a month ago, Percival, Thornley and Cust could’ve been sitting out the semi final.

Famous last words but Walmsley hasn’t hit top gear yet this season. Don’t get me wrong, he’s still the best prop in the league by a mile but he’s not been at his marauding best. Spot on about Paasi as well. His spell really took us out of the game and we can’t let that happen again. I’d be holding Liam Byrne back and tasking him with getting off his line (as he’s been doing so well this season) to try and hunt Paasi down. It’s risky in some ways but we can’t let him dominate us as comfortably again.

On the plus side we have Ellis back so can go with a full compliment of forwards, and Thornley back in the side will add some extra drive coming off our line.

Down side we are weaker in defence without Powell and Tommy.

I trust Peet will have been working on tightening up the middle this week so hopefully a big improvement from recent weeks defence.

Another plus is we seem to be hitting far better line speed when taking the ball up from our own half, something we haven't done in recent years. The forwards, Thornley and Marshall.especially are coming into the ball at speed and with more variety so we have a much better chance of getting away from our line.

The extra proper prop in having Ellis should mean we can maintain our defence longer than the 25 mins we did on GF.

Should be a cracker.