In that case, my team (however won't be Radford's team) would be:

Rankin
Lineham
Michaels
Talanoa
Lancaster
Pryce
Sneyd
Paea
Houghton
Watts
Minichiello
Westerman
Thompson

Bowden
Feka
Green
Cunningham

Reasons being, as much as I like Shaul I think we look a lot slicker in attack with Rankin linking in. It's down to preferance whether you want the speed and evasiveness of Shaul or the hand and brains of Rankin, for me, for now, it's Rankin (just).

A Talanoa and Lancaster combo offers a bit more speed and dynamism than Yeaman/Talanoa. Could be seen as a defensive weak link, but I'd rather see us take to game to Cas rather than be defensive. Besides Webster and Clare (their probable opposition) don't really strike fear into me.

I'd also go with Westerman out wider. Last season he was very good in a ball playing 13 role, if Shaul is full back that's fine, but if Rankin is playing I think it's a case of too many cooks. We don't really have any other second rows with good hands who bust tackles and offload, so have Westerman play that role on the left and use Thompson as an extra prop.

Big bench. If Cunningham is fit we need him to be spelling Houghton. He can't keep doing 80 minutes, especially now Easter is upon us.

Just my 2 penneth. I'd be suprised if that's actually what happens, but it's what I'd like to see.

Abdul limped off in the u19s game on sat and was injured week before, be suprised to see him in

Really like that line-up, good work. Miss Thompson off the bench, but hopefully plenty of minutes for him either way.

To anyone who watches us week in week out, how many minutes has Chris Green been getting in recent weeks?

I ask because he leads the team for average gain by quite some distance (amongst the forwards at least), but his carries are really low for the Salford, Wigan and Catalans game.

In fact the quality of his work looks really good.

1 error (a costly one against Salford admittedly)
0 penalties
98 tackles
6 misses
41 carries
346 metres
6 tackle busts

Does he need to up his work rate, or does Radford need to give him more minutes?

Ellis confirmed as out for a month.

I think we'll beat Cas

Sound's good, you get my vote for next coach, don't think Radford will go with this though

All though if Shauls fit, id have him on bench instead of Cunningham, spell Houghton and really speed things up from the ruck

We'd struggle defensively as hookers are supposed to be able to tackle.

Hes a full back, surely he can tackle? And hopefully we'll be doing more attacking than defending, or may need to in second half if behind

Good job that Rob burrow t tackle when he comes on at hooker, leeds would of destroyed us in that second half if he could!

Hooker is very specialist position, I don't understand why fans think anyone will a bit of speed can play there, no other teams would use full backs at hooker. We saw against Leeds that Rankin didn't work at hooker.

If we need another hooker it should be Cunningham on the bench.