1. Paul Wellens, 2. Ade Gardner, 5. Francis Meli, 6. Leon Pryce, 10. James Graham, 11. Lee Gilmour, 12. Jon Wilkin, 13. Chris Flannery, 14. James Roby, 15. Bryn Hargreaves, 16. Tony Puletua, 17. Paul Clough, 18. Kyle Eastmond, 19. Chris Dean, 21. Gary Wheeler, 23. Maurie Fa’asavalu, 24. Andrew Dixon, 28. Matty Ashurst. 30. Jonny Lomax.

Referee for the game, which kicks off at 6pm is Richard Silverwood.

WIRE SQUAD:

19 man squad named:

Louis Anderson
Vinnie Anderson
Chris Bridge
Lee Briers
Brian Carney
Garreth Carvell
Jon Clarke
Mike Cooper
Simon Grix
Ben Harrison
Chris Hicks
Paul Johnson
Matt King
Richard Mathers
Michael Monaghan
Adrian Morley
Chris Riley
Ben Westwood
Paul Wood

Injuries:

Mickey Higham - torn bicep
Paul Rauhihi - back

We is fecked

A great opportunity for the kids to cement a first team spot.

So what!! Good learning curve for the youngsters.

As long as KC, Long, Gidley and Cayless are back for the big games then i dont really care!

I am really looking forward to this game, and seeing what Eastmond can do at scrum half.

Should be a great game.

I think we will miss Gidley more than we'll miss Long.

I'd go with

1. Wellens
2. Gardner
3. Flannery
4. Dean
5. Meli
6. Pryce
7. Eastmond (He is either good enough or isn't. Don't move him about)
8. Graham
9. Roby
10. Hargreaves
11. Gilmour
12. Wilkin
13. Clough

14. Wheeler
15. Puletua
16. Fa'asavalu
17. Ashurst

Dixon and Lomax to miss out. If Wilkin still isn't good to go, move Ashurst to his spot and put Dixon on the bench.

1. Wellens
2. Gardner
3. Wheeler
4. Dean
5. Meli
6. Pryce
7. Eastmond
8. Graham
9. Roby
10. Hargreaves
11. Gilmour
12. Flannery
13. Wilkin

14. Lomax
15. Puletua
16. Faasavalu
17. Clough

I'd love lomax to get another shot, he was great against cas, but i can't see where. We need all the experience we can against a very good and very big wire pack. I bet its the biggest pack in SL.
For me play kyle at 7 or don't play him at all. If he doesn't play at 7 I'll be very disappointed.

Lomax can interchange with Roby at half back.

But what about Eastmond?
If wilkin misses out we'll really struggle, more for his tackling prowess than his attacking skills

Eastmond at 7, why would he need to interchange with Roby?

That would be mine too.

Flannery in the centre?......nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

he isnt a centre as proven every single time he has played there, waht is the fascination in everyone thinking that he is?!?!!

Wheeler has performed excellently at centre this year - if he is fit he has to play.

I agree.

Lomax
Gardner
Wheeler
Gilly
Meli
Pryce
Eastmond
Bryn
Roby
Graham
Wilko
Flanno
Wello

Clough
Pulteuaaaaa
Maurie
Dixon.


Lomax can interchange with Roby ,Wello can go back tof/b. Loads of choices to shuffle in fact.

Flanners is solid in defence and decent going forward. He'll be solid at centre.

That leaves us to play Wheeler as an impact hooker/half back.

Ideally he would be centre but we need an impact player on the bench.

Good team this, with what we have avaliable!

Wellens
Gardner
Gilmour
Wheeler
Meli
Pryce
Wilkin
Graham
Roby
Hargreaves
Ashurst
Clough
Flannery

Eastmond
Fa'asavalu
Puletua
Dixon/Dean/Lomax

I'd feel more confident with Wilkin at half back, as i feel that Eastmond is too much like Pryce, too often he wants a ball to himself and wants to run with it, when he should be passing it. I do agree that he should run with the ball on occasions, but not nearly every time he has the ball.

Pfft, he got murked by an out of form Matt King last season, god knows what he might do to him this year when he's actually playing OK.

I just don't know where your coming from with this vision of Eastmond being tight with the ball. Interchange of passes with Lomax Gilmour in Cas game resulting in tries. Excellent pass out to Chris Dean earlier in season in very heavy traffic resulting in try Offload to Ellis at Salford. Just a few examples. Open your peepers.

I'm not saying he NEVER passes the ball, because he does, but not as much as he should do. There is loads of times that he could create a try scoring chance but doesn't let the ball go and trys to go through himself, just because he has created a few trys this season, doesn't mean he couldn't have created far more.