I suspect he will be playing centre Friday, with no Croft available

Just shows how important the spine is to getting the team working.
This was all about getting 2 points and resting a couple of players to me.

Or was it over confidence?

The line up was all over the place, no surprise the performance suffered. Two points, players rested, comfortable win. 6 homes games left.

Sure I'd like to see mistake free, flowing rugby but I accept its the teams DNA this season. All efforts now need to concentrate on being our best come the play offs.

We weren’t very good, but it’s easy to see why. McGillvary, Thornley, Gale, Lino, Atoni, Ashurst, Uele all missing, and playing our fullback and hooker in the halves. It wasn’t slick, and we were a bit carefree with the ball but I’ve no doubt it’s because the players know we could be and it wouldn’t affect the result.

Fair play to Dewsbury - their forwards never stepped back and they scored a couple of great tries.

Thought Harvey Smith was very good, Doyle dug in, Olpherts too.

I'm guessing we'll be without Croft and Bowden for Friday...leaving us light in the pack against a decent Sheffield team. It'll be a challenging game, but good teams rise to a challenge.

5/10 performance for me....we weren't good, but we were good enough to win easily non-the-less

Ellis Lingard looks a big unit and went well for the 10 minutes that he was on and was unlucky not to score....definitely one for the future

Well my eyebrows were raised at that line-up but I thought it was smart to leave a few out and put some square pegs in round holes given we were always going to be too good for Dewsbury .

There wasn't too much risk attached to it and we did win comfortably , it was never in doubt .

We all know when we need to be ready and I'm sure we will be .

Post match interview. https://youtu.be/YNbtqS4w34Q?si=3Z2fmrU8SNMwV_ae

Post match interview. https://youtu.be/YNbtqS4w34Q?si=3Z2fmrU8SNMwV_ae

Think I’d put Kay in centre and leave Griffin there but if Thornley is fit could be Booth. .

Maybe Thornley be back.

It’s the props we will struggle. Bowden out would leave us with 3 props. Maybe Lingard might get another shot as he impressed.

If Atoni, Thornley or any other are fit it’s a bonus.

Walmsley
McGillvray
Thornley / (Booth or Kay if not fit).
Pratt
Olpherts
Gale
Jowitt
Shaw
Hood
Bain
Ashurst
Griffin
Pitts

Doyle
Smith
Rodwell
Lingard

Add Vagana and Cozza too. Our injury list is horrendous.

Good shout, had totally forgotten about them. Suppose it’s possible we might have all of them back in 7 weeks - imagine that team

The problem is, we have many injured and the few that are fit are having to go through the ringer every week. Yes some will come back but at our attrition rate they will probably be replaced by others getting injured. We need a bit of luck

We do need a bit of luck. Players like Smith, Shaw, Croft stepping up has helped a lot.

Boothroyd on the bench for me instead of Lingard. Kay at 13 with Pitts in second row and Griffin at centre if Thorniley not fit.