Given our injury and disciplinary situation with our front row we could be in big problems for Fridays game and I mean big. Potential we might not have one single regular Prop playing.



Big Dave , concussion and a knee injury.

Moz, eye injury.

Carvell, banned.

Woody, prolapsed disc.



As good as we have been this season we would really struggle against the Giants with these players missing.



As a best guess I would say we could Moz and Big Dave back, I say this because if Moz was fit to play Wigan with no risk of causing a further injury then if having the Op would have delayed his return past the play offs then he himself will have wanted to play on and have the Op after October.



The other player I think we will have is Big Dave, he has had concussion and I think a week will be enough for him to get over the effects.



Woody tweeted that he has a prolapsed disc and yesterday he tweeted things were coming on 'slowly but surely'.



Gaz is in the hands of the Gods, the RL have in the past gone easy on players coming up to a big game.



So my best guess for each player making Friday is.........



Moz, Good chance

Big Dave, Good chance

Woody, Very small chance (but this is the play offs and players play with injuries they wouldn't normally)

Gaz, 50 / 50

If we win we'll have a week off and club call.



If we lose we'll have an unwanted extra game in week two which would probably lead us to playing Saints in week three.



It's not up to me, but if someone like Moz or Wood was 70% ready I'd be tempted to risk them.



I've got everything crossed for Carvell escaping with a fine.

I believe that Moz'z eye surgery was timed so that he would be back for the play-offs. Gaz should learn from others that all he has to do is simply apologies and flutter his eyelashes and he will get a fine from the RFL

Did fine against Hull

A month ago, it was doom and gloom as we approached our last three matches with key players missing. We won all three convincingly.

Whilst Carvells' looked quite bad, his first impact was on the top of the ball, so that will help him, although players do have a responsibility not to end up high.



He pulled out of it straight away and apologised, it was not an ggressive tackle at the head, so hopefully a fine at worst.

Can we not call Chris Hill into the squad?

Is Ben Evans



a) Available

b) Good enough for the 1st's

Agreed

He certainly didn't swing one it was more of a lazy arm..And as you said 1st contact was on the ball.

deffo shot up, lunlike lauaki's attempt to decapitate bert in the first half

woody hasnt been training but seeing specialist today to see if he can get the nod to train so may be a possibility

I think we can see past that though because Lauaki is so awful. I hope that Wigan do sign him next year, he is so selfish at times, I can remember 3 or 4 times when they had the overlap on his side and he tried to run straight over the defence rather than pass it.