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I'd go with the same as last week, my only decision is whether we go with Franco or Olpherts.

I’d go for the yardage carries and quicker plays from Olpherts. Franco’s error kicking the ball that led to a try was a similar one to what Olpherts got blasted for at Batley too.

Think Olpherts offers a lot more impact and without McGillvray we need that. The ball rarely gets to the right winger in a clear position to score anyway (if at all).

That said, I would be tempted to go with Croft on the right wing. Later a few times there and done a solid job.
Otherwise I think it’s as you were.

Best of a bad option. Franco looks totally clueless to me. Olipherts has issues but is much better. Also as others have said, I would play croft on the wing ahead of Franco.

However !!!! what about Liam Kaye. I think he'd do a better job than all of them. Plus we can manage in the pack without him.

Id play kay on wing and bring cozza in too,if it a shout between olpharts and franco it would be olpharts cos of yardage he can get,,really dont see anything in franco

Good shout for Kaye. He’s much better than the other two and can cover elsewhere if needed.

Agree, Kay to wing is an option and Cozza on bench to 13 interchange with Pitts. I’d be fine with Olpherts too though for the yardage and he lands on his front. If Kay hasn’t trained there though do we take the risk to tinker. Though I’m sure it’s like riding a bike for him. I think Dawson Jones is the winger opposite who’s no slouch so need to make sure it’s someone who will defend well.

Need a strong defensive performance (like we have been) and the middles to earn the right to pull in defence and execute edge plays. Though the forwards have been good I feel that we sent out wide plays too early in sets vs Batley and Toulouse when we should have gone down middle more/ for an extra tackle before sending it out.

I’d Probably go with

Jowitt
Olpherts
Thornley
Pratt
Walmsley
Gale
Lino
Atoni
Hood
Bowden
Ashurst
Griffin
Pitts

Doyle
Rodwell
Uele
Cozza

Quite a few familiar faces in that squad with BJB, Eddie Battye, Aaron Murphy, Kyle Wood and Titus Gwaze, all of whom have worn a Trinity jersey in recent years.

Some experienced players in there too. Certainly built a good outfit have Sheffield. I’m confident we can do the job and should be a cracking game.

I'm a little nervous over this one, TH. There again I think I've been a bit nervous about them all so far.

I think it’s the more unknown. Us fans aren’t used to playing these teams or squads and other than a few players we don’t know much about them. To a degree I suppose it’s natural to be confident but wary of what you don’t know.

With Sheffield there’s some experienced heads I recognise through the team so it’s no surprise they’re doing well. Team appears to have good balance though I don’t know much about their pivots and a couple of forwards.

They’ve not come up against an outfit like us yet though. Although we haven’t really fired we are consistently running plays at a tempo higher than the teams we’ve been facing to date. It’s important we keep that going and build even more on that.

Forwards need to do the damage and the backs need to work smart off of that. I hope we are a bit more direct down the middle early plays because when we started to be more direct Toulouse struggled to contain us. It’s sometimes about taking energy out of the opposition tanks to pay out later in the game.

We are sat in the stands and very much looking forward to this. The players will no doubt want to be the only club left unvested come Friday night about 9.30pm. Sleeves up again.

Flaming Raining again according to the BBC Weather forecast, 70% chance, from noon until after the match, DAM Dam & Dam its getting to be a designated wet country with a few dry & sunny days in a year, still good luck to the lads & up the Trin !!

Its a 4G pitch so no mud, just a slippery ball

I think it's the biggest challenge to date.
If we manage to get to wembley we will probably meet them again in the final.
I'm a bit on edge about this one

Play to our potential we win, keep making the amount of errors we do along with the ill discipline and we will make it hard for ourselves.