would friday night have been a reasonable opportunity to give another youngster a chance to bed in?

I think so yeah,It seemed a good time to bring someone in.

It may be that Smith thinks we will struggle next weekend, so he decided to go full strength at Wrecsam.

Can you not spell wrecksome??

Yeah or maybe,TS thinks as many points as possible will make it safer at the end of the season,which is a good way to secure points difference

Only in cymraeg.

Laithwaite was 18th man/water boy I think. I think we can only speculate at the moment as to what the team will be. Harrison and J Monaghan will be certs for not playing. It will be a good test for the side though as Salford will be playing with more confidence after beating Wakefield and also finally announcing the new coach has seemed to taken pressure of the club.

Hodgson, Anderson and King in the 18 for the Exiles.

If we line up like the TANCW then I'll be happy.

Hoping we have a few who back up, particularly in key positions.

The certain availability of Monas is a real bonus.

Hoping that we have players fit after the exiles match would be great for a chance to win salford!

Fingers crossed on this matter.

Interesting that you don't think Louis will back up, TANCW.

True !!

I don't know. When Monaghan was released, I just took Anderson out. No idea who will back up of course, nor who will play for England.

I think we'll be okay. I'm sure if TS was worried we'd struggle, he'd of asked to reschedule the game, as I'm sure I've read somewhere that he was given that option. Therefore, I think all the players will back up, except Morley.

I imagine it's purely and simply because Buderus is captain, and Tommy Leuluai is vice-captain = 2 hookers in the team.

Bit stupid as MM is the best of the lot but there you go.

Agreed, but I think Leuluai will play at 7, Buderus won't last the full 80, and Monas is a better 9 than Faiumu.

When I read that first I thought you meant McIlorum. Coffee all over the computer screen. Got confused between the two teams - I realise now you meant Monaghan.

In a similar vein to some of the comments on here, I think we should rest Briers, both Monas, Westwood & Hodgeson for the cup game against Wigan.

We have Bradford at home in the league the week after. We don't want to risk letting our professional rugby players play every week do we.

Some of them may not be up to it in an relatively easy league game the following week!

I think trying to predict who will or won't double up is a bit pointless. It all depends on a) how many minutes they play in the Origin game b) whether they suffer any knocks or injuries and c) overall availability and fitness of players in each position following the Crusaders game / weeks training / Origin game.

For example, do we want to be without both Anderson and Westwood on Sunday? Probably not. But if they both play 60+ minutes on Friday and pick up minor injuries we may have to. If one comes back much fresher than the other, then maybe the fresher one will play but the other won't. And if they both come back having not played much and feeling raring to go, then both may play.

Agree with that Seb. Tony may have a 17 for Sunday in the back of his mind but it will all hinge on how the players who appear on Friday feel on Saturday or even Sunday morning. I doubt he will assume any of them will back up but its clear that the ones who feel ok will play. As we know God won't take any risks.

Thats what i think aswel,no point in over playing our players and not coming up with the wrong results.

Fingers crossed though everyone is injury free Friday night/saturday/sunday morning.

Seems we have 5 players in the team, with only Ryan Atkins missing out:

How did Lomax miss out?

According to McBanana you have to show good form over a period of time not just 7 or 8 weeks.