Rumour I've heard no Arundel or Watts. So
Shaul
Colbon
Crooks
Yeaman
Talanoa
Horne
Miller
Feka
Houghton
Pitts
Whiting
Tuson
Westerman
Subs
Azza
Rankin
Thompson
Hadley

Injuries or dropped?

I'd be very surprised if Watts was dropped, not so much for Arundel, although I'd sooner they both started.

I personally think if either have been dropped it makes a mockery of Radford's comments last week.

Watts injured, Arundel dropped. Rankin was originally out of the 17th but Watts got a niggle

Well I seriously hope that is a rumour. Arundel dropped but Yeamo plays? Feck me. As Carl says, makes a mockery of Radders comments.

Totally agree Pal hope its wrong.

That's ridiculous if true. Our other 2 centres were spectacularly awful last week. Even if you look at the season as a whole and not just that game, his tackling and error rates are better than both (Crooks and Yeaman are actually our top 2 for errors). Smacks of favouritism.

That's ridiculous.

And if Rankin was originally dropped too expect Horne at off-half again leaving Yeaman and Crooks at centre. Why say anything at all, Radford, if you're going to perform a spectacular volte-face 4 days later?

Hope this rumour is wrong.

This. Sends out the wrong kind of message.

And is exactly the issue that most worried me when Radford got the job, although thus far I have had no issues with his apparent willingness to sub/drop those not up to scratch.

This week is the real litmus test, imo. And perhaps we're jumping the gun a little.

We will find out about 7
When does the Doncaster squad get announced ?

My main concern with his sub/drop approach has been that, Yeamo aside, they've all been younger players so far. Maybe you're right about us jumping the gun a little but I just have this nagging doubt at the moment that I can't shake that this will be the norm. I hope I'm wrong.

It is favouritism.The youngsters taking the rap for the failure of his mates

I thought Arundel was pretty awful last week although still a bit better than Yeaman.