If Lovegrove is going to used regularly as a Prop i dont see the reasoning behind the signing of Wheeldon?

Unless he has an outstanding season Lovegrove will more then likely not be retained at the end of the year. Playing as a utility and covering positions wont give him a chance to nail down a spot and establish himself within the team imo.

Rhys has trained all pre-season as a prop, its not about him not playing in the back row or anywhere else its just that he's seen to have more of a chance at prop than anywhere else.

Its his speed around the ruck that I think pleases Morgan, he makes good yards in the tackle and has great upper body strength so I think thats why he's favoured in that position but wont be discounted if we get injuries in the back row.

For a change i completely agree with you.

Got to be Wheeldon, can play alot of minutes and has impressed far more than Lovegrove in the pre-season.

Would be very surprised if he left out Scott. I'd start with Mills and have a bench of:

Fitzy
Gene
Wheeldon
Macca

Is he going to be fit?

If so id have him on the bench over Cockayne. Just for big game experience.

Yeah he's very likely to play according to Justin on RH last night.

I'd sooner have Cockayne on the bench than Stan, not knocking the big guys prescence out there but Benny just gives us that bit more speed around the ruck and he's got more versatility than Stan having played in every position you can name! Wasn't it he who played prop at Catalans in our first visit or was that Scotty??

Would agree with that. Stan got quite a lot of gametime on Sunday and the quick turnaround may be too much for him. Cockayne offers plenty of versatility and makes very few mistakes and much as we all love Stan, Ben is much more reliable.

I think it would send out the wrong message if Cockayne were to lose his place on Friday night.

Wouldn't say he had a brilliant game, gave away two stupid penalties in the time he was on.

According to Morgs on RH 2 mins ago, it is likely that Gene will miss the Leeds game on Friday due to a rib injury.

Correct, told KCFM the same.
Stan and Vella stood out of training.

Why would they?Cooke,Briscoe,Chester ,etc seemed to survive unscathed.

Sounds to me as if you're giving him a rough time lol.
But seriously why would any give him a rough time. All others who have seen sense and come to rovers have been welcomed with open arms

It will be nowt to do with being an ex Fc employee. Your fans will give him a rough ride as soon as they work out your club is paying him an extremely healthy wage and he is cack !!!

And how are we going to do that? We have the following options:

1. Ask him. "Scott, what wedge are you on?" - keep your nose out is the likely response, and rightly so.

2. Hack into Rovers payroll and check out his salary, whilst also comparing it to others to get a benchmark. Highly illegal and beyond the capabilities of most on here I suspect.

3. As above, but hack his bank account. Not likely.

4. Speculate wildly and inaccurately that we know what he earns in order to make a really pathetic point. (Copyright, THE BOARD).

Option 4 seems our only choice!

Play him then.

He will be judged surely on what he does for Rovers, not where he played before or what wages he might or might not be on.

Was he always cack or just cack when Hull signed him from Rovers academy in the first place

Cack enough to have played 50+ super league games for you?

Chessie and Brisc id agree with but what helped them was hitting form straight away.

Ive heard people shout at Cookie 'F off back to Hull' and similar comments.

And that's just Morgan and Vella.

He is not even in the squad

Agreed, can't imagine Wheeldon will be given a rough ride.

Surprised he's not in the squad, maybe still carrying an injury.

Yep , he hurt his back picking his large pay cheque up

Can't have, according you lot in the know he hasn't even been paid yet