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.

To be fair I don’t blame the clubs in trying to maintain a league schedule, I’m all for international rugby and the concept of the mixed nations to give a test to England. However after the financial impact the pandemic has had on all clubs and the game as a whole it would have been sensible to postpone the international fixture. Without the clubs the game is screwed so they must take priority.

I would question the importance of the fixture too with the NRL contingent missing and other players as already mentioned re Roby. If it where a month or two before the World Cup then I’d have more sympathy for England/RFL but there’s 4 months to go yet.

I also question when Huddersfield have lost 5 and are severely depleted why St’s overseas contingent are notable absentees particularly when their game is no longer on.
When you lose players to the England side that's one thing but to also lose players to a mixed national side too is a very big ask at a time when the clubs are struggling.

How is there only one player(Hastings) playing for Combined Nations from the top 4 amazing that, the teams chairman who run the game get their say again. I can to some see why Wigan(2 in England Squad), Wire(5) and Catalans(2) who have games get away with it but what about Saints(4) no game no players where's Grace, Naiqama. Matu'utia and Passi.

Anyways my team would be

Swift
B
Scott
Fonau
Logan
Grub
Sneyd
Sao
Mint
Brown
Lane
Ma'u
Cator
Subs
JJ
Macca
Fash
Wynne

For me I'd leave Swift on the wing where he is playing very well for us this season and put Wynne in at FB.

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

Subs
Johnstone
Brown
Scott
Vulikijapani

Is Scott fit, if so he has to be before Logsn IMO

I've only got Scott on the bench due to him not necessarily being fully fit and him coming back from his shoulder injury.

Interesting that Scott might be fit again. It sounded like a bad injury. Ferreira is fit again too and could be considered.

Swift will probably be FB. And if he is then Wynne could stay at centre where he did well last week. But he has been training on the wing and would slot in there if Scott, Ferreira or Logan are preferred at centre.

18 man squad Cator, Scott and Logan back https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/r ... on-5563713

18 man squad Cator, Scott and Logan back https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/r ... on-5563713

Huddersfield contacted us to ask to postpone the game, and we declined

If you think we've got problems Hudds can only name a 13 man squad!

It's beyond daft but looks like the game is going ahead.

Wonder if we could throw JJ in at 13 for a stint? Like the Storm do with Hectic Cheese? Start with Cator then shift him to prop.

They only need 13



We once beat Leeds with eleven men on the Boulevard.

Wynne

Faraimo
Scott
Fonua
Swift

Reynolds
Sneyd

Sao
Houghton
Fash
Lane
Ma'u
Cator

Brown
JJ
Logan
Mitch

JJ to do a stint at 13
Maybe Fonua/Faraimo/Scott to do a shift in the pack with Logan and Mitch to come onfor the last 20.

Hopefully we can start fast and rack up some points. But you just know it'll end up a disjointed mess for both teams though.

We need to get through both games injury free too

They have an elite academy set up...their fans claim to produce players....but not many if any have been named in the squad....sorry Watson, kidology here!

Hudds have deleted the tweet but there squad is:

Golding
Jake Wardle
Lee Gaskell
Josh Jones
Greenwood
Oliver Wilson
Cudjoe
Gavet
L Senior
Trout
Hewitt
Ronan Michael
Bott

With some more to add....

Wonder if Will Pryce will get a game?!?

Silver lining is we might get to boo Josh Jones

Lol that’s why I’m going, wait till they get Theo