are they badly injured

I understand Briggs has appendicitis and was in hospital last night. Do nt know anything about Castle, but if he was doubtful yesterday for the game why on earth did Miller play both Bassinder & Ellery in the Academy on Saturday.

Then again what was the point of starting with Colton after he had been injured for weeks, they should have gave him half a game in the A team or saved him for another week.

Similarly Briggs missed Monday because he was unwell (possibly with appendicitis), so why on earth did they risk him being fully fit less than a week later and not have a spare half back because they played Speak on Saturday.

This to me this shows a complete lack of planning and unfortunately reinforces my opinion that if we are destined for relegation unless we get better leadership from the sidelines and drop the one up style of rugby preached by Miller.

And welcome to the foums Trotsky

Trotsky welcome to our Forum, dont know if Jemmo has a secret group out there called the FOUMS, if you have Jemmo can we join.

Sorry...it's "For Only Us Mods"

Oh its a private one then mate.

Never told me about that

That must mean it is really private Bruce, or that you are not important enough

You're not allowed in Bruce.....you're not illiterate.

He does know the difference between being illiterate and typo's though

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So do I......but I couldn't resist.

How could Scott Smith play for Bentley on saturday,as a contracted Dons player surely he should have been in the reserves squad ?

id say commonsense prevailed the lad has played all season so why let him miss out on the day when they was crowned champions!

You didnt mean the POUM did you comrade Jemmo

Doubt Jemmo would be involved in a forum on the "Butchers of Barcelona" to be honest.

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All falls into place now.

Totally agree, why take away his glory when he has contributed to the team all season.

.....and the reason why Castle did not play?

Minor knee injury and didn't train prior to the Halifax game as a result. May be available this Sunday.

Thanks Wanderer lets hope he's fit as I reckon he is playing some of his best rugby this season.

I agree.

After being a little slow to get up to speed (missed the friendly at Featherstone) he has become our most consistent Prop. This seasons Craig Lawton so-to-speak. It would be great to get the both in the side and at the top of their game.

It'd be great to get any of our 4 first choice props (IMO) playing!

It will be wonderful having more fit players, although to be fair the lads that we have playing at the moment have nt let anyone down.

My only worry is that a fully fit squad will still be coached to play one man rugby, and we are kidding ourselves if we expect to see anything else from the current set up.

And I m sure that I can not be the only person to see we are at least 20% slower than most teams in the league at the play the ball and around the ruck area.