I agree completely about Carlisle but I also think that a fully fit Withers adds to Rovers squad. Withers needs to get match fit and the only way he can do that with the ludicrous academy rules is to play in the 1st team. Maybe if we had a competition where Withers could get fit then Carlisle wouldn't have lost his spot. Still having three fit hookers is a bonus.

Tough game for rovers and wakey were pretty good against us last week but we defended like we did tonight and they had no answer. I think the bookies have this one right at scratch and it could go either way. Their wingers give them great momentum from kick returns. Depends on how tim smith plays IMO

Just glad Caro has been dropped in favour of Brown.

Suprised we simply haven't released the deadweights already (Withers, O'hara and Latus)

Assuming we have to pay up their contracts, what possible advantage would releasing them give us?

Wakefield +6 is the bet.

wakey not a bad team,and there will see this as a big game regarding the top 8, fifty / fifty for me

The continued inclusion of Mika is astounding.

Critical game and one I fully expect us to lose.

Yeah, I'm nervous about this one. Kind of assumimg the worst, as a defence mechanism. I really want to get behind the team, as much as I can listening on the radio a hundred miles away, especially with it containing so many inexperienced young lads, but it is hard to have much genuine belief at the moment. Bit of a wider malaise with the club's future still unclear, too. Still, tomorrow might be the day our form and fortune start to turn, you never know.

Who would you put in in place of Mika? yet another 'kid' is the only option, and one right down the 'kid' pecking order given how many are playing anyway.

Yeah, I suppose we're a bit stuck, I just tried to do it and it didn't go well. Is Welham actually fit?

I think we'll line up something like this;

Hall, Hodgson D, Welham, Salter, Brown, Burns, Dobson, Walker, Hodgson J, Lovegrove, Mika, Horne, Griffin. Cox, Withers, Paea, Beaumont.

Or, spell Josh Hodgson into the second row and not play Mika because he's a liability but that would have required Green to be in the squad.

It would have also required Dave Hodgson to be in the squad!

The one I saw earlier in the week was scratch but with a 6 point lead I'd take wakey

Does he have any option?

Good point, shoddy work on my behalf. Brown instead.

Not really so we'll be in for an afternoon of two big hits, four dropped balls, five penalties, six missed tackles and a partridge in a pear tree.

Its crucial that we come away with the points tomorrow and against Bradford in a fortnight. Realistically, Hull are going to stick 50 on us next week and are now heading towards the top 4, Old Trafford and Wembley so there is no point chasing them. 8th spot is still up for grabs though but Wakey and Bradford are our main competitors.