Could be few of the young guns playing.
Farrell more than anyone "deserves" a rest and it wouldn't surprise me if he is rested.
Cust is another who has played I think every minute of every game this season. so I wouldn't be surprised to see Astley at 6

Wouldn't be surprised to see the team looking like this

French
Halsall Thornley Bibby Miski
Astley Smith
Partington O'Neil Ellis
Isa McDonnell
Shorrocks

Bibby Mago Havard Nicholson

I would like to be keeping cade cust in the team myself, we have him for potentially 2 more seasons, definately one so the cust/smith partnership could be what we are looking at for the next 2 years potentially. They seem to be building a good partnership together and i wouldn't want to distrupt that unless necessary. Making use of the time until leuluai is back fit. Other then that i would be happy with this team, nice mix of youth and experience.

Got to say the 2 bibby's in the team had me stumped for a second

Think this team won’t be far wrong, Cust appears to have been doing extra conditioning today along with players who aren’t playing (Smithies/Bateman) so doubtful he’ll play

I understand your comments re Cust but a bit of a rest and keeping our "powder dry" isn't a bad thing at this stage of the season.

Agreed. He's something of an "all in" type of player too, continually taking it into the defensive line, so I think a rest would probably do more good than harm.

How was that sent up as a try??

This game is a sad sight in all honesty.

Refund the fans who went tonight.

In touch, drops it and they give a try

Have we also rested Peet for Lam?

Superb from Thornley, what a line.

We’re suffering here from having too many of the young lads in with the “nearly good enough” crew. The wrong type of first team experience to actually get a look at how suited the academy/reserve lads are to first team rugby. Hopefully that try will give us a bit of belief that we look like we’ve needed so far. I’d love for Mago just to take an actual drive in where he’s looking to bust first and foremost rather than constantly looking for the offload. Coming onto the ball at pace would be a start.