Great Minds

I'd go with Swift in place of Ratu and Johnstone in for Houghton and leave Fonua out. I'd maybe like to see Buchanan & Patterson-Lund on the bench then move Griffin to spell second row for his size and power and bring Buchanan in at centre.

Without Taylor, Sao, Jones, Bowden, Savelio & Matongo we have lacking a serious amount of size and experience down the middle so its going to be a tough ask.

Wouldn't have Brown and Fash on the bench.

I'd start Fash and have Satae on the bench, apart from that I agree with others teams,both wingers deserve to be dropped.

Dont know anything about Paterson Lund, except he is well thought of, so may get a bench spot.

Hopefully with our strength in the backs we will through the ball around.

Very brave choices by Last, IF these regular players are available for selection..
Personally, i'd have chosen Wynne ahead of Shaul...

At least we're not the 5th game to be played on the same pitch in just over 24 hours.

Good job it's still summer.

Sounds very likely to me that it will happen
Front row is very weak.

Thats not been brave just naming players in the squad
When you look at it the only player likely to be dropped from the Salford game will be Ratu and thats an easy decision based on the fact he has Faraimo and Swift available.That said Ratu was far from the worst performer on the day and hardly saw the ball.
There is no way he will drop Shaul or Houghton

The Leigh situation must be something to do with money.
I cant see Leigh not been prepared to release the players for the rest of the season particularly as they are obviously paying the players and they are not going to play for Leigh.
Its a shame for both players because Bienek would most probably have been in the 17 this weekend given our shortage of front rows and Scott would have been ahead of Buchanan who is leaving anyway.

Maybe Wynne couldn't be selected.

Maye without the size we rely more on being technically better both in defence and attack, move the ball around so that we take advantage of having players that can go longer due to not being bigger.
Of course it's going to be tough, there are no easy games, however some have already doubted the value of Jones, Matongo and Bowden several times already.
It'll be good to see if players are going to step up to the mark, see if Last can change the tactics without the biff bang wallop style players.
Just hoping we can grab a win by hook or by crook, the team/club needs a win and the fans desperately do too, anything to lift the mood.

It's the same for both sides though so it's not really that much of a bid deal, and if we are using more mobile/smaller sized players, forced upon Last or not, might that not work to our advantage?

Last has already said we're not 100% fit, 3 weeks training followed by 2 weeks isolation, followed by a few days "training" and then match day on a heavy pitch. After 7 weeks uninterrupted training I reckon Huddersfield can't wait.

Odd how LR got criticised for using the "big forwards, down the middle approach" but when they're missing we hear "pack too light, bench too small, front row is very weak....."

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You’ll win by 1pt it’s becoming a habit :