Weatherman was terrific for half a season and the after his call up was anonymous or injured so even that didn’t go swimmingly in terms of signings.

Even on his worst day he was one if the best in the team.
Wedterman was a good signing.

When did we sign these two.

are we raining men ?

Whose going to be missing that makes up half a team.

Even if we had 8.5 players unavailable that doesn’t necessarily equate to half the team that would have been picked.

This is my point, you only take the worst case.

Lyne will be back as will Hall. We don’t know if Jowitt is in trouble.

We don’t know regarding Miller.

Gaskell may well be fit.

In truth the only obvious players I know of who almost certainly won’t play is Hood and Lineham.

Croft can certainly play.

Let’s see what happens before we claim we are half a team down, please.

Miller failed his h.i.a so is automatically ruled-out for Friday, but assuming Walker is fit then he is the obvious replacement ??
Willie said last week that Gaskell and Hood are still a couple of weeks off.

I have asked before should Jowitt be banned which is possible with the current rulings who plays full back on Friday.

That is a very good question last season we had 3 who could play fullback this season we have only 2 and with Gaskell out injured and if Jowett does pick up a suspension then we have a problem! CC as left us in a bit of a mess not resigning Rocky.

Give Willie P a ring, he might have a clue

Can’t see Jowitt picking up a suspension. Was running full tilt with the Leeds player heading for the corner. Leeds player got tackled and fell down literally in front of Jowitts legs. No time to adjust and one of those things. There was no sliding in with the knees at all and it’s just clutching. Would be extremely harsh of there was anything come from it.

Jowitt plays for Wakefield so rule book gets thrown out of window

Have you considered the Paul Cullen factor

So that’s another team who’ve picked up their first points.