Could be an interesting battle between the Batchelor brothers on Friday.

Yes. I thinks it's a shame ours will be in the centre as he can't show his best.

Id go with....

Jowitt
Johnstone
Hall
Mimms
Lineham
Miller
Walker
Arona
Kaye
Whitbread
Kelepi
Pitts
Batch

Fiffita
Battye
Aydin
Bowes/crowther.

Batch played middles pre season and hull and for me offers so much more then crowther
Cant decide for sub hooker bowes will guve quicker play of ball but crowther whi can cover 9 and may stiffen defenece up

As proved last week against les cats ,whoever gets the nod, if they put the same effort and commitment in as was shown last week We will give ourselves every chance of maybe not coming away with a win , but be in the arm wrestle with saints and stranger things have happened .6 of us will be winging our way over the M62 and expecting a tough encounter ,but one where come the final whistle we can hold our heads up high .It’s always a long quiet drive back when you’ve been spanked on the wrong side of the Pennines,I’m hoping for a much happier and chattier drive back this time around .

"It’s a bit of form for Kelepi, he’s a bit down on confidence. Sometimes when you get into a bit of a slump in form, the harder you try the harder it is to get out of it so we’re taking him out of the firing line to let him play in the reserves a little bit with less pressure and hopefully an environment where he can just be himself and grow his confidence.”

Come on now. Vastman probably knows a little bit more then you or Willie Poaching…

Willie has given a welcome injury update on total rl , Gaskell hood couple weeks away , Lino lacking fitness so same , Croft probably plays in reserves this weekend, tupo on track and about a month away kershaw still a way off

On the subject of the team this weekend arona has to start in the front row, was excellent defensively and carried a lot of ball in both league games.

Bowes again needs to start as crowther did his best but was an attacking disaster at hooker. If crowther is playing he has to start in back row

As I say, if you believe that's the reason then that's the reason. It will be interesting though to see if he gets selected for Saints and seeing as he's not actually played in a reserve game one can only assume he used Yoga or something similar to get his playing confidence back. Get my drift?

I'm sure he is telling it exactly how it is - I mean who has ever heard of a coach playing issues down - and I'm sure you actually believe it, NOT.

Still, if you want to points score you knock yourself out.

Well why would Poaching say it? Its not exactly a passing comment is it? Fair enough if it was but giving a full interview to the BBC on it and how they were looking to rectify it and then actually following through with selecting him for the reserves team... It`s a lot of effort to go to for something that`s made up, also if it actually wasn`t the truth I`d be pretty annoyed if I was the player tbh. I thought KT looked pretty anonymous by his own standards against FC as well. Also you assume Poaching`s comments on lacking confidence just come from the 80 minutes against FC, the bloke sees him train day in day out, maybe he is lacking confidence in general.

Poaching has implied if Mimms is fit he'll play.
And he likes Batch in the middle.
So that back row is getting busy.