A tough one this weekend again v Catalan dragons who are playing some great football with a number of players out.

Looks like we will be without Handley, Oledzki, Leeming, Bentley, Gannon for this one. Hooley back in contention after playing in the reserves. Decision will be Hooley, Olpherts, Roberts or Tindall. Although Olpherts has had poor games for the club, he is still one of the top metre makers in the team, which will probably get him the nod. Likely will see Johnson on the bench for this one too given Bentley is missing.

Myler
Fusitua MacDonald Newman Olpherts
Austin Sezer
Holroyd O’Connor Tetevano
McDonnell Martin
Smith

Johnson Sangare Lisone Walters

Hooley, Tindall, Roberts, Donaldson

That's the teami would go with also.

Im not expecting anything from this game, but i felt like that against Saints recently so who knows.

Looks like a big crowd is being expected

For any meters he's making (and it's not like his backfield carries are outstanding exactly) the massive errors he continues to make are killing any momentum and if we're setting a precedent for standards expected Olpherts has to be dropped. Tindal gets the opportunity for me (or 'mine' if you love your RL lingo)

I agree. tindall should play

This certainly shouldn't be unwinnable. Smiths team is one that he's reinforced and is probably below average in terms of missing players.

Bentley big miss for this one. I’d drop Olphert’s for Tindall but won’t happen. Catalans should win as they are great spoilers, but we obviously have a chance as at home at least…..

Like with Sts this one must be all about the attitude. Play hard, cut out the mistakes and the rest will follow. I still think we need to try to be more dominant in defence though, as giving easy metres away may help stop points against but it also means we seem to start every set very deep, and generally further back than the opposition. Its hard to play good attacking rugby when the first three tackles are used to just clear the line.

There's pressure to show up and perform this week. Second half against Cas was disastrous but entirely fixable. We'll probably have a few out but so will they. If we want to be top 4 this season and not just battling for a play off spot, this really needs to be a win.

Olpherts is poor man's Tom Brisco.

Some new faces in the squad but I'd be surprised if any are picked aside from Johnson.

I dont think Johnson will either by Smiths comments on O'Connor being a 80 minutes player.

Totally agree. shows how far we have fallen if we have little confidence of winning this one at HQ. Goodness me, this needs to change fast. We need the swagger and confidence back and to put fear into our opponents.

I'm not quite sure the mood of the posters on here is any way indicative of what the players feel



Otherwise we'd have lost by 50 against St Helens

He did reference some ill health in the camp at his press conference, so possible that we could have a couple of surprise absentees come game day.

Reminds me of the early vainakolo.

Bit OT bit I watched this with similar amazement to that footage of the two legged fox that was doing the rounds recently https://twitter.com/i/status/1633481446990938112

Bit OT bit I watched this with similar amazement to that footage of the two legged fox that was doing the rounds recently https://twitter.com/i/status/1633481446990938112

Quote ="Clearwing"Bit OT bit I watched this with similar amazement to that footage of the two legged fox that was doing the rounds recently https://twitter.com/i/status/1633481446990938112'" Care to give a rough summary of what he was saying for those of us that know an embarrassingly little amount of French?

Quote ="Clearwing"Bit OT bit I watched this with similar amazement to that footage of the two legged fox that was doing the rounds recently https://twitter.com/i/status/1633481446990938112'" Care to give a rough summary of what he was saying for those of us that know an embarrassingly little amount of French?

I would have Johnson on the bench for this one. He can cover hooker and halves and if we are in the contest after 50/60 minutes he could cause Cats some problems. O'Connor gets through a ton of D so might be useful to rest him - plus his passing wasn't good enough last time out (although usually I think he's been better than Leeming)...

I'd prefer to see us either not select Newman for this one or have him play the 80, don't think having a centre on the bench against Cas helped us at all. If he needs game time reserves are there for that.

Tough game this but I just want to see a professional and determined effort where we're going to make it hard for Cats. If it were me I'd agree with other posters and bring Tindall in for Olpherts too. Fusitua, McDonald, Newman and Tindall actually has some strike to it.

I'm not so keen on bringing players back for spells in the first team either. If they're not fully fit they should get there in the reserves first. Otherwise you carry an odd player on the bench just to rotate someone in a position where they should play 80 minutes.

Fancy us to bounce back after a disappointing performance last week and win this. Cats unbeaten have not lost at headingley since 2019, their winning start has to end soon, don’t see why not tomorrow.

Quote ="Clearwing"Bit OT bit I watched this with similar amazement to that footage of the two legged fox that was doing the rounds recently https://twitter.com/i/status/1633481446990938112'" Tres bien Monsieur

Quote ="Clearwing"Bit OT bit I watched this with similar amazement to that footage of the two legged fox that was doing the rounds recently https://twitter.com/i/status/1633481446990938112'" Tres bien Monsieur

St Helens were popped up and Wakey are garbage , so are Cas though , so that does not make our form very good at all

The Warrington score tonight puts our performance last week in perspective. Smith has some big decisions this week -
- do we risk Newman for 80 mins / reserve hooker on the bench / do we stick with our halfbacks / time for Tindall return / is an unfit Simone worth a place on the bench / how do you beat a top 6 team with no line speed in d - the list goes on .

NNeed to get Rhyse Martin a lot more involved ,granted he is a great goalkicker but for me doesn't get involved enough in games