What is the latest regarding Brandan Wilkinson ?

No i dont think so.Looks to me to be the choice of Horne.
The idea of the reserves is to keep players fit and give some of the younger players a step up to first team action.
in this case a hard tight game at Newcastle would have been just as beneficial for some of the Hull lads as Wakefields reserves.
I think he has been loyal to the Doncaster squad.
Adding Langtree will help but i dont think you have the front row to get a win and bringing in Levy or even young Jack Brown would have helped a lot.
But what do we know?

I agree ... light on forward power.

Your right about us being light up front.. Connor Scott is a good player but Boyle isn’t good enough, spires gives 100% but isn’t top quality, Brandon Douglas is unknown and that’s all we have up front. We then have foster, langtree and Dixon in the back row. Last season we were bullied by the top teams and I can’t see things changing any time soon.

Langtree is a good player & Dixon deserves his chance. Not sure about Foster.

Great experience for Wynne, fantastic young talent and played in the recent England academy series v Australia

He didn’t play in any of the tests vs Australia

Not denying the talent of some of these youngsters ... but they are youngsters ... and they will get battered.
Probably.

Anyway the proof of the pudding ... etc

I agree that Richard Horne has been loyal to the Donny players. In recent weeks, the statements he has put out have suggested that he was only going to bring in one or two Hull players whereas we'd be told by the club that five players could be available and we would have the choice of some of the better players.

I like and respect loyalty so I can understand where Richard Horne appears to be coming from but personally, I'd be grabbing the best five players I could from Hull and build the rest of the team around them for this tough opening game.

Their coach must think he has got out of jail ...

Logic dictates that we always get the sweepings up from Hull, since they have enough problems of their own.
AND you can't have two bosses and serve them equally.

I am very disappointed with how it has gone so far.

He can't do stuff like this and not win. He is painting himself into a corner.

I agree with a lot of what has been said. I’m not a fan of DR at all and would rather we spent the money on better players of our own. But Mr Hall belives the deal he has arranged with Hull is our best chance of promotion. So why wouldn’t you use the arrangement to the max and have the 5 best Hull players available... Horne could find him self under big pressure in a few weeks time. A lot of his signings this season don’t fill me with much optimism. Hope to be proved wrong

I have to pinch myself that he got Franky and Beryl last season ... so he has done good things.

He has both of those were top signings but signing numerous players from amateur clubs isn’t going to get us promoted. We needed 3 or 4 signings of the like of those 2.

Well I agree ... they would be good if we had a reserve side.
But we really don't have the time to bring them on and make them quality players.
We need to be in the Championship and need players to get us there pronto.

It will be interesting to see how the bookies view this game. I suspect that Newcastle will be 6 or 8 point favourites.