According to BH Johnstone won't be playing this week due to a 'knock he copped' against Catalan so surely Balmforth has to come in to the 17 with Lovodua moving to 6 you would think?
BH has to start spelling Houghton as he will play however long he asked too but its hurting the team as we don't use Houghton effectively to get the best out of him, which is why St's no longer use Roby for 80 mins.

Got to have Hookem or Balmforth in the 17 at least.

rlinjury updates from BHrl

No Balmforth. Hookem to get a chance maybe? Now his loan at Haven is over.

2 – Adam Swift
4 – Josh Griffin
5 – Darnell McIntosh
7 – Luke Gale
8 – Ligi Sao
9 – Danny Houghton
10 – Chris Satae
12 – Manu Ma’u
13 – Jordan Lane
14 – Joe Lovodua
16 – Kane Evans
17 – Brad Fash
20 – Jack Brown
23 – Connor Wynne
24 – Cameron Scott
25 – Mitieli Vulikijapani
27 – Jacob Hookem
28 – Aidan Burrell
29 – Jamie Shaul
30 – Scott Taylor
34 – Davy Litten

Hookem is playing I believe.

Not sure how Griffin can be in the 21 man squad when he is to serve a 1 match ban?

Looks like Hookem in at 6 we hope and Lovodua to spell Houghton

Fingers crossed

Hookem been playing 9 at Whitehaven so can see him going on the bench.

Shaul
Swift
Mitch
Wynne
McIntosh
Lover
Gale
Evans
Mint
Sao
Ma'u
Lane
Brown
Subs
Fash
Satae
Tag
Hookem

Some players got to count last week's England v exiles games as their bans so maybe Wane was going to include Griffin in the game last week and that game served as his ban?

Balmforth playing for Yorkshire Academy this weekend.

Looks good to me. Shame Balmforth is playing for Yorkshire this weekend, would've been good to see him get a run out.

If Shaul doesn't offer anything over the next few weeks I'd be looking at bringing Litten in though

I'd forgotten about that. Would have been good to see him get another senior runout but I'm sure he'll feature soon.

Me too, in my head it was next week.

Lovadua at 6 and Houghton to play 80 minutes then.

i just hope pearson and the hull club,tell city and the football league were to go regarding september 3rd derby game.the fixture has been scheduled for months.i cant believe the arrogance of football and city when they schedule a game knowing another club play at the stadium.if pearson has any balls he tell city where to stick there match.let them play 3 oclock on the sunday .

or sky could have informed the club the derby will be chosen as a friday night tv game? lets wait n see, i doubt Citys' new regime would pull a stunt that the Allems would be proud of...looking at the final round of fixtures, our game v the bin dippers does is the biggest fixture that round, so would make sense for sky to want to move it

both city and the football league know that 2 teams share the stadium and its a time when overlapping can be a problem.didnt they bother to check hulls fixture list.?we will always have this problem when you share a stadium with a sport thats got a we are the only sport that matters mindset.stick to your guns pearson.tell them they can play after our game is finished.s-d em off

Whilst i understand our fans annoyance about this, Sky permitting i would rather play Sunday