Injuries have meant he lost that yard of pace he used to have, but he's still kept that ultra competitiveness he' always had. I thought he was instrumental for Wigan when they won the title in 2018. He was the best player on the pitch in the semi final. He was England's best player in the 9s competition at the end of last year and was unlucky not to be in that Great Britain team, especially when he'd been the half when we beat New Zealand the previous year.

He looked in good nick from the highlights I saw against Castleford in their last game.

Catalans Dragons coach Steve McNamara believes discipline is the key to undoing Hull FC when they travel to the KCOM Stadium this weekend......

“Statistically the KCOM Stadium is the toughest place to go. Hull FC, credit to them, were the least penalised team in the whole of 2019 by a long way.
“They have not lost a penalty count in the four games they’ve played this year. In the last four times we’ve been there we’ve lost the penalty count 36 to 21.

“We are clear in terms of how we want to play against Hull FC.”

With all this Virus stuff I’m reading from Aus I wonder if this is the last home game for a month or 3 ?

Back on topic then,
Who plays at 6 against the dragons, Kelly or Connor?
For me Kelly at 6 and put Connor in at centre in place of Fonua as he clearly isn’t fit

Shaul

Swift

Griffin

Carlos

Fonua

Albert

Sneyd

Taylor

Houghton

Bowden

Jones

Mau

Ligi

Subs
Ellis

Satae

Brown

Connor

Difficult till the squad is out, it would be an idea to use Jake as a Tommy Martin/Tony Myler type six or thirteen, just an idea to give us a bit more movement and creativity later on.
Whoops forgot Savellio, just shows what a team we have

Squad, Josh Griffin, Adam Swift, Jake Connor, Marc Sneyd, Scott Taylor, Danny Houghton, Chris Satae, Josh Jones, Manu Ma’u, Ligi Sao, Albert Kelly, Jordan Johnstone, Masi Matongo. Brad Fash, Jordan Lane, Josh Bowden, Mahe Fonua, Kieran Buchanan, Gareth Ellis

Shaul
Fonau
Tuimavave
Griffin
Swift
Kelly
Sneyd
Tag
Mint
Bowden
Jones
Ma'u
Sao
Subs
Ellis
Satae
Connor
Johnstone or Lane

Shaul. Swift tuimi Griffin Fonua. Kelly Sneyd. Taylor Houghton. Bowden. Mau Jones. Sao Subs Ellis Satae Masi Connor

That's what he will go with but I'd like to see us try the combination with Kelly/Connor at full back like we tried in the friendlies.

Yay

No Savellio again, I thought the club said it was only a short term injury. Hopefully he can spell Ellis next week.

Ellis won't play friday to short a turnaround

Catalans Dragons headcoach Steve McNamara has named his 21-Man squad for the Sunday game against Hull FC in the Super League round 5, k.o at 4 pm at the KCOM Stadium.

Mika Simon and Alrix Da Costa have received the green light from the medical staff.

The staff will be without David Mead, Sam Moa, Joel Tomkins, Mickael Goudemand and Tom Davies.



The squad

2. Lewis TIERNEY
3. Samisoni LANGI
4. Israel FOLAU
5. Fouad YAHA
6. James MALONEY
7. Josh DRINKWATER
8. Rémi CASTY
9. Micky McILORUM
11. Matt WHITLEY
13. Benjamin GARCIA
14. Julian BOUSQUET
15. Mickael SIMON
17. Benjamin JULLIEN
18. Alrix DA COSTA
21. Paul SEGUIER
22. Arthur ROMANO
23. Antoni MARIA
24. Jason BAITIERI.
25. Arthur MOURGUE
28. Sam KASIANO
29. Sam TOMKINS

Good to have Ma'u back, I wasn't expecting that this week.

Savelio is starting to become a concern again given his past injury record.

A bit disappointing that he continues to select the ineffective Matongo over Brown, but then Matongo probably won't play anyway. Just making up the squad.

Kelly needs to start imo. As I've said before it would be at FB if I were picking the team, but I know Radford isn't going to do that, so hopefully it's Kelly at 6 and Connor on the bench.

Perhaps they are just looking after Sav, as we now have good cover, hope so.