Disagree about Lannon. Very shrewd buy. Every time iv seen him for Salford he has been very good and gone very well in pre-season. The fact he may not make the 17 tells us we have a much stronger side than past years. Rumours another forward due in to replace Josh Johnson and Jewitt and Scruton due back shortly and Lunt and Quinlan back at the crucial end of season and its pretty positive from CP. Apart from the floodlight falling down it's been best preseason for ages.

Rovers by 10+ Tommy Lee anytime try scorer. Printing money

Taylor? I think that was more due to injury than not being selected. Think he had a shoulder op in the off season. Of the English props in SL there aren't many I would swap Taylor for. Thompson, Walmsley if he can return the same player from his injury. That's pretty much it. Mulhern is a really good young prop, but he is yet to reach his potential yet and is a way behind Taylor right now.

Think he did say he was disappointed not to be selected. If he had the op then maybe this was when he was not called up.

No reflection on Taylor, but it would have been dfficult for any international coach to pick from a team on the end of so many poor results/performances.Hopefully it may be a blessing in disguise for Taylor.

Taylor was never going to be playing for England, as you say, no national coach would pick anyone from a team that had lost 11 on the bounce.

He looked injured for a lot of back end of season when I saw him? He and Houghton both looked cream crackered? Asking a lot of them to do big minutes again this season when will Connors eligibility be confirmed? No ref appointnent yet and squads will be Wednesday so it's just hot air and gut feelings at moment.

Jake Connor???

Apparently KR are fully fit for Friday and that's the only reason it will be close with Hull missing raft of stars? Some interesting views over the road .Garbutt no better than Huby? Some straws being clutched already

Connor was a special case tbf in that he had already stolen the show in Denver. Had he not performed well in that game then our form might have been an issue for him, but I think Bennett had him pencilled in for a while. It would indeed be a big call to give someone a debut from a team who were playing so poorly. That said Connor was injured for a good few of those losses, including the 2 big hammerings.

Maybe I'm wrong about Taylor, maybe he got the op because he wasn't picked rather than the other way around. But he was certainly struggling for a lot of last season and yet still pretty much carried our pack.

Thaler is the ref... One things for sure he will card anyone for backchat whatever tonight's outome on Connor

Is Jake the Snake banned or not then?

Certainly is...

Connors appeal unsuccessful,teach him to keep his big gob shut.

He's a good player nothing more nothing less. You'd think he was Wally Lewis the way the Unwashed are carrying on? So probably Sneyd and Kelly in the halves which is decent enough although fitness must be a doubt. The only positive I can see from an FC perspective is Jake the Snake will be frothing at mouth come the Cas game.He owes his teammates massively after missing this through a very avoidable act of Jakery