Injuries are a reasonable excuse for a defeat, but not an excuse for a p!ss poor performance

Never heard you so pessimistic Dave, you Ok, we will surely beat this Wakey team at home with nearly a fully fit squad?

Too hit and miss at home to be really confident.

You should tbh

Had we started the season with that line up (Reynolds/Hampshire) I'd agree but watching them you can see they are not used to playing together and can become disjointed. That said they looked better together against Leeds in the second game so yes you have a point though I don't reckon 2 games is enough to match Kelly/Sneyd/Connor/Houghton??.

We should be looking to win this game by a decent margin. Other than the last 2 games, where were were hit by injuries, we have a good record against wakey. They have plenty of players missing and we need to take advantage

Your record against Wakefield hasn’t been great recently, far from it. However you should win fairly comfortably.

Randall will be back. Wood maybe as well.

You've won the last 3 when we were decimated by injuries but we'd won the previous 8. There was a gap of 3 years when you didn't beat us. As I said, our recent record against you is good

FC are even money-6 is that easy money based on chat above ?

Jamie Shaul will be missing again on Sunday, he's set to be out for another month wih the effects of the second concussion.

Awful news, really hope there's no long term issue. He's looked excellent in the few games he's played this year.

I really hope he recovers fully from this. His health is far more important than being on the pitch. We're lucky in that we seem to have a more than capable deputy with young Conner.

Yep lump on, bet will be won by half time

Squads:

2. Bureta Faraimo
3. Carlos Tuimavave
4. Josh Griffin
6. Albert Kelly
7. Marc Sneyd
8. Scott Taylor
9. Danny Houghton
11. Dean Hadley
13. Joe Westerman
14. Jake Connor
15. Chris Green
19. Masi Matongo
20. Brad Fash
21. Sika Manu
23. Mickey Paea
24. Jack Logan
30. Danny Washbrook
34. Gareth Ellis
36. Connor Wynne

Chris Annakin
Tinirau Arona
Mason Caton-Brown
Jordan Crowther
David Fifita
Ryan Hampshire
Keegan Hirst
Justin Horo
Ben Jones-Bishop
Max Jowitt
Lee Kershaw
George King
Danny Kirmond
Craig Kopczak
Reece Lyne
Pauli Pauli
Tyler Randell
Ben Reynolds
Kyle Wood

Two decent squads, hooker was their weakness last game and they have two back.

They have a big pack and lots of pace we need to combat, but weak in the halfs.

I'd go with

Wynne
Faraimo
Carlos
Connor
Logan
Kelly
Sneyd
Taylor
Houghton
Masi
Hadley
Manu
Westy

Ellis
Griffin
Paea
Green

I suspect it will be Connor at FB again, but I'd like to see Wynne there again.

Jamie Shaul (head)
Andre Savelio (ankle)
Josh Bowden (knee)
Mark Minichiello (knock)
Levy Nzoungou (ankle)
Jordan Lane (knock)
Matty Dawson-Jones (knee)
Jack Brown (ankle)
Jack Sanderson (shoulder)

Plus Talanoa retiring. Crikey, 10 out.

Only 4 max would get into our first 17 though so we can't use the injury excuse this week.

Has Ratu been dropped?
What is the timescale on Savelio’s injury ?

Logan was injured for the saints game.

I'd probably have Lane in there, plus Talanoa. I guess them including Arundel on their list is similar. Interesting and close contest on paper.

Wakey have about 6, so not as bad as it looked earlier in the week, both first choice halfs is a big loss though.

Should be a good game.

You can only play with so many back row forwards though and talanoa doesn't play for the club anymore. Still don't see more than 4 changes if everyone was fit but that's a matter of opinion.

Having seen the impact it had on good Friday, I'd start Griffin in the centres, Connor in the halves and bring Kelly off the bench.

Agreed. They are above us in the league on points difference as pointed out many times last weekend, of course.