As much as I have faith in our youngsters, I have no faith in the RL hacks, they will pick someone like Tomkins or Ellis, simply because they are household names.

We will see

Happy with how Arundel has been playing, scoring tries and defending well.

Yes, that sounds very likely. Probably the captain of whichever team wins for "leading from the front".
Might be worth a few pound on Sinfield. Wouldn't be surprised to see him pick it up.

gentle just said on blunderside injured players got until tues p.m to prove fitness.stated its the sqad that has got us there and the team that plays need to know so they can work on what needs to be done to beat wigan.i know team leaving thursday but would like to think lineham and yeaman would get to at least weds p.m to prove o.k.after all you'd need less time with players playing in natural positions than those covering.if not just got to trust gentle.seems like he's building a totally focused attitude throughout the squad.worked 2005 so heres hoping.we'v shown all year we are clearly a underdog team.i would honestly be more worried if we was playing bronco's

He was in the gym at the weekend and he was like a man possessed

Who was

danny tickle tweeted he should be ok

Ben Crooks?

Ben Crooks had an operation a couple of weeks ago so I seriously doubt that he'd be fit. I thought that he was targeting the playoffs for his return.

Looking at players who have picked up knocks recently, best case scenario for the final would be:

Shaul
Lineham
Arundel
Yeaman
Briscoe
Holdsworth
Miller
O'Meley
Houghton
Watts
Ellis
Tickle
Westerman

Heremaia
Lynch
Pitts
Whiting


and the worst case scenario would be

Shaul
Crookes
Whiting
Horne
Briscoe
Holdsworth
Miller
O'Meley
Houghton
Watts
Ellis
Westerman
Pitts

Heremaia
Lynch
Green
Johnson

but I imagine that we'll line up somewhere between the two of those.

Listening to Gentle on the radio this morning, sounds like Horne will play