Well Cas could have Amone and Dezaria in their squad which would boost them.

Well Cas could have Amone and Dezaria in their squad which would boost them.


They also just signed Salabio from Hull so have a new front row it appears. 

I agree. On form we should put 30 on them but in some ways I think that will work against us.


If I were McGuire I would be planning fast line speed early on and really chance our arm in attack especially against anyone out of position 
Hoy and Cini are just made for a 7s type game.
It could catch us out


However if they start getting offside, drop the ball because they don't have the players to do it, they'll just hand us the game.


We have to stick with it too. Our forwards will wear them out so even if they get ahead we should stick to the plan as points will come late in the game.


I really want to win this one to assert some dominance over our neighbour after such a long time

Cas have signed a prop from Catalan in time for our game.
Jordan Dezaria

Hugo Salabio signed for Cas too. Pretty decent pack now. 

I don't think Amone will be signed in time for Thursday nights game. 

I don't know anything about the youngster Stevenson - how old is he, is he anywhere near ready for a big derby game? 
Teams like Wigan and saints never seem to hold back blooding youngsters but we always seem reticent. 
Could always try him and move things about a bit if it doesn't work.  Got to be better than Pittsy at no 6 ( who I rate highly- no criticism of him!).

It really isn't a pretty decent pack now, we should be getting on top of them. 

If you add Amone in, which sounds like he wont be here till next week, so will probably play at magic weekend, then it would be 'decent' 

Dezaria and Salabio don?t add anything amazing to the pack and will be pretty much meeting team mates before the game. 

Looking at their edges we need to be hammering their edges. 


I will be incredibly dissapointed if we don?t win at home vs that Cas team. 

Their side is still capable of winning if we are not on our game. We need to be ruthless this time.


Assuming Max is fit then he's the most likely to slot in at 6.


Right second row causes ne a problem now.
Nikotemo and Vagana both play left.
Croft and Griffin both play right.


Vagana switch at Leigh but had a mixed game there.
For me, without Storton, Croft has been most successful there.


So I'd rather pick from the 2 pairs and then put one on tge bench.
Which then affects whether Cossa plays off the bench.


A good dilemma to have but we need to get it right.


Saying that, if Cini plays, sending Vagana at him is going to be ridiculously funny.

He's not been named in the squad.