With Holmes a doubt this would be what I’d go with

Moy
Martin
Hardaker
Rapana
Barron
Cust
Sezer
Ese Ese
Bourouh
Aydin
Cartwright
Lane
Asiata

Ashworth Sao Balmforth Chamberlain

Alternative could be to start chamberlain, move rapana to full back with moy on bench to bring on to change the game if required

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0kqm ... are-mobile Cartwright pre game presser on Humberside

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0kqm ... are-mobile Cartwright pre game presser on Humberside

Fash was poor pretty much all of last season. When he wasn't injured he looked like he wanted to start a fight with anyone in the general vicinity, his previously ok defence took a dive and his go forward was virtually non existent. He needs a big season

Its going to be another Abdull disaster
could be another that Myler has to pay off

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Abdul disaster? They paid him off instead of having him sat in the stands. They'll possibly do the same with Holmes if required. They can afford to do that. Hardly a disaster.
A disaster would have been retaining Cam Scott on a mega contract and see him play 6 to 8 games all season.

Abdul had the no.6 shirt and was using one of our 3 marquee quota spots, we're now going into the season as a playmaker short and should anything happen to sezer/cust long term, cover is a bit thin on the ground...you could argue it's a bit of a disaster.

Abdull was a high risk move which hasn't paid off unfortunately. There was a chance that at this point we'd be looking forward to seeing him line up against a former club in 2 days.

I found it interesting when Abdull signed he made a comment that he hadn't spoken to Cartwright but had "heard good things" or something like that. Maybe Cartwright just didn't rate him. I'm not sure the signing was a "disaster".

As I said in a previous post. Depends what’s in the contract they sign.

We are still short of a playmaker or at least some creativity IMO, but it’s not like signing Abdull prevented us signing anyone else. He was signed early doors and we still went for Lam and Sailor, possibly Sullivan and signed Cust and Sezer after.

It was a gamble that was taken because he would have qualified for a big dispensation on the salary cap because he came through the academy, it was a unique situation. Looking at who was available maybe we could have signed someone like Olly Russell as a third senior half instead of doing the JA deal, but there’s an argument to say that long term Charles or Kemp might work out better for the club anyway then that.

My question is, who would you have signed instead of Abdul to play half. There weren’t many domestic 6’s available. Club also rate Jack Charles highly so exposure should do him good.

But on topic, hopefully we put in a decent performance. Catalan look shaky. Control the ruck and I’m hopeful we can be in with a shot.

Win or lose, I’ve missed it

I’m going to be boring here and hopefully FC match me

We need 80% completion
No penalties
No 6 agains

We’re not good enough to be flash yet