I think the club were probably hoping for a crowd in the region of 15k if everything was back to normal, so probably yes.

They'd never have got that against Huddersfield.

Hopefully the first home game without restrictions is Leeds but even for that I think 15k is very optimistic. Problem is we have them on the Friday and Saints at home three days later. I can't see many non-members paying to go to both.

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Mathew Shaw reporting Championship clubs are now being contacted. Farcical to cringeworthy.

I agree sadly. We have also lost approx 2k pass holders and while some will be keen to comeback and will pay on the day, some won't, once the habit of going is broken its hard to get them back.

Still can't understand the club not setting a deadline for passholders to book a seat and then selling whats left to non-passholders. Unless they are really trying to hammer home the benefits of being a passholder.

Typical RL with the organisation of this game. A decent idea: a better opposition for England and a chance for the overseas stars to impress their national coaches ahead of the world cup. But then they decide to shove it in on a weekend with league games on, because they got greedy and decided to have 2 loop fixtures.

Why grow the international game and national TV audiences when you can have Hull play Huddersfield twice at home to the same set of supporters who watched the first game eh?

(one of these games of course ended up behind closed doors at Headingley, but they didn't know that when it was decided)

Is it true we’re looking at getting Jack Logan back?

I’d have gone back for Buchanan myself TBH

Jacks back after signing a 4 week loan deal, hopefully the move to Batley will have done him some good. Thought his form prior to leaving us had been pretty good to be fair to him he just seemed to suffer from injuries when he'd found form so never got a run of games.

Would be good to see him take the opportunity with both hands, best of luck Jack and welcome back.

Guess there are no forwards available that the club feel are good enough at present?

Weve still got 5 in the Combined Nations squad!

I was under the impression the combined nations was limited to 3 from a club. So since its a 19 man squad I would guess the 2 that drop out will be Huddersfield players.
But nothing would surprise me with the way this full thing has gone.

Savelio in the Combined Squad!

Appears to be Connor, Satae and Savelio missing.

Swift
Faraimo
Wynne
Mitch
Reynolds
Sneyd
Fash
Houghton
Sao
Ma'u
Lane
Cator

Brown
Johnstone
Bowden
Logan

No idea who if Bowden and/or Cator dont make it, I'd guess McNamara and Ferria.

If Cator doesn't make it I'd play Reynolds at 13 and McNamara at 6

Are we playing without a right centre?



I'd imagine either Logan or Ferreira will come in at centre and the other on the bench.

It’s a flaming joke how they expect Huddersfield to play minus 5 first team players with the injuries they have and us to play with 3 missing from an already severely depleted squad with injuries. The fact we’ve had to bring in Logan speaks volumes as to the lack of fit players. So we go into the game with 2 recognised experienced forwards in Sao & Fash with young Brown as the remaining option on the bench. No recognised centres that are fit other than the loan of Logan.

Reckon Logan will come straight in with Wynne going to FB leaving Swift, Logan, Fonua & Faraimo as the back line. Possibly see Fonua moving to a forward in the game with Mitch slotting in on the wing and Faraimo centre.
If Cator and/or Bowden aren’t back then we really are struggling down the middle as no one else at all. Unless Lane goes as make shift forward and Logan fills in at SR with Ferreira at centre.

It’s just a farce and a great advert for the SL fixture with two severely depleted squads.

Is Fonua injured?

I totally forgot about him!



Founa at centre and then presumably Logan on the bench.

Absolute joke all round.- RFL just keep finding ways to embarrass the game, utterly utterly meaningless game, World Cup team will bear no resemblance to the starting 13, can't see it getting much attendance or TV viewers either.

So we have all made plans, got our tickets & still have no real idea if the game is on or not ??

TBF will be a brucie bonus if we can pick up 2 points on the cheap, BUT if we come unstuck or pick up more injuries then pretty damn disastrous !!

In all fairness to the RFL they had this England game pencilled in before SL put its fixture list together. SL still saw fit to put a full round of fixtures in this week.
If there is blame then there is plenty of blame to go around, the impacted clubs included.

I'm a but out the loop when it comes to academy players but Alex Gibson has started most of the academy games at prop. Could he be worth a shout?

Nick Staveley is a LF and came well regarded (he looks a monster if his picture on the club site is anything to go by)

Bowden is out and Cator is 50/50. We need to find someone from somewhere...

Burrell seems well regarded by the club and has been training with the first team.

Leeds have just postponed their game because of call ups. I can't see how Huddersfield can field a teaam

Review and overhaul of the Rfl needed failing In all areas

Surely Hudds cancel after Leeds have

That's the thing and you have Wane coming out with ridiculous comments like “I don’t think James Roby needs a game as intense as this at this time of the year, so we came to an agreement with St Helens that he wouldn't play,”

I'm with you 100% on this. We all know the RFL are prone to making stupid decisions, but this wasn't one of them. They arranged the game early and one would have thought the chairmen would have arranged to leave this weekend free, but they chose not to.