Huge test of where we are, we'll probably go in as favourites which brings a different mentality, hopefully we'll be up for it especially with a 9 day turnaround.


Fingers crossed we'll get a couple back maybe Balmforth and Aydin?

Expect a win. Not said that in a long time. Maybe a chance for Will Hutchinson to spell Bourouh. Second row is an issue - is Jebson ready or another up and coming. Prefer  Chamberlain to stay in the centre. Briscoe and Lewis on the wings. There seems no problem with props. Rapana at FB for me Moy on bench. Must be focused for this and start better than we have been doing. If you don’t do the one percents then you lose in SL. To me this is as much a must win as any

Play as we have been and we win. Drop off a where and we probably lose. We may have one eye on the cup game so that may influence selection

I thought the same about Watts and ashworth although most seemed to disagree.  If we go with those 4 I'd be tempted to start one of them and start with Knight on the bench although personally I wouldn't play Watts as he'll probably get sent off against his former club

Agree on leaving Watts out this week, start Herman and Aydin (if he's back) with Ashworth and Knight coming off the bench, if Aydins still out Start Ashworth and bring in Eseh. 


Really think we missed Aydins business and endeavour against Wakey.

I'd go with 

Rapana
Briscoe
Chamberlain 
Hardraker 
Martin
Cust/Moy 
Sezer
Ese Ese
Bourouh
Knight
Fash
Lane
Asiata 


Eseh
Ashworth
Watts
Moy/Balmforth/Hutchison 

If Cust isn't fit this week I wonder if we'll see Kemp get a shot

Is Kemp fit, wasn't in our 21 man squad and didn't play for the academy.

To be fair losing Cust and Cartwright didn’t help us. Considering Watts hadn’t played a SL game until Friday night he did a job. When you take both Ese ese & Knight off we are naturally going to lose a little go forward. Think we are also missing the work rate of Aydin. 

The good thing is we have a coach in Cartwright were anything that is not good enough is not lost on him and will be worked on as we have seen since game 1. 



Cas is another test on our journey in that we now face a team that was ranked as a struggler like ourselves at the season start, but we have put some performances together and surprised a fair few. We’ve not gone in as favourites to any game as yet but against Cas we will be seen as favourites. 


We’ve managed to get a result at Wakey after the emotions of beating Wigan in the CC, now the test is not taking Cas lightly and doing the job there.
How many times have we seen games we should have won then put in a shocking performance. 


Hopefully complacency will not be an issue at all. 

Ah ok not sure. He played against Rovers for the Reserves last week I think. 

I get a bit lost with the age groups these days, but I don't remember seeing the likes of Westerman, Kirby, Ward playing but are they too old now?