If we're going 3 props, maybe Chan instead of one of those to give an option in the back row?

Thats good news. Heard the word 'setback" during the week and feared the worst.

Cooper will start on the bench according to Peet

Said would do mind either side of HT so imagine stand in for Mago

Probably start with Thompson, O'Neil and Dupree in the front row with Mago, Leeming and Cooper off the bench.
With Farrell and Nsemba second row and Ellis at loose. Who the fourth bench place will go to we don't know but Hill or Chan favourites.

It's a shame really we only have Havard, Byrne, Eseh, Walters to come back in to the reckoning

glad i'm not Matty Peet if and when they are all fully fit

80 minutes intensity from our front row with impact of Mago to add to it

Unbelievable the position we're in compared to just a couple of seasons ago, it's almost inevitable that the lads in the team at the moment will pick up a ban or an injury and having the above ready to step up in the next couple of weeks is amazing.

2-3 years ago I'd have killed for a four prop rotation of the current versions of Havard and Byrne and a couple of extremely promising lads like Walters (I know he'll play second row) and Eseh. Amazing to think they're just the guys unavailable currently.

If you think about it 2 years ago we didnt have,Walters,Cooper,Eseh,Dupree, etc and a younger Byrne,Havard and yet we still won the CC,how good is that as we are stronger now than then.

And Isa?

Its worse than that

there is also the crop of Reserve/Academy props - Makin, Wilson, McDermott, Kelly-Duffy and Kelly-Duffy progressing very nicely.