To be fair, on this occasion, a very good point has been highlighted. We appear to have all of a sudden gone from being a squad with loads of depth and struggling to give all our players a game to a situation where through releasing players to swinton for the season, sending others out on loan, a few injuries and a suspension we are almost struggling to name a 19 for this weekend.



The SL clubs have alot to answer for from their incredibly short-sighted decision not to agree to an u23s competition as advised by the RFL.



Hopefully common sense and forward planning will return in 2014.

We could always loan players under contract at Swinton.



Perhaps that is even a condition of their contracts.

Any idea who this six are, as against the 5 loan players?

This goes for both sides so I'm expecting quite a close contest.



Hull are missing Liam Watts, Danny Tickle, and Gareth Ellis in the forwards and all 3 would walk into our first choice 17.



The thing that I am most worried about is our right edge, where we are playing Lineham (Wing) and Crooks (Centre). Both players have bags of potential and are sure to be stars of the future, but both are also lacking SL experience.



Looking forward to a good game, have a safe trip over.

The six are Mendeika, Morrison, Burke, Ormsby, Shaw and Riley. They are our 'over-age' U20 players from last year.



I could be wrong, because the whole situation appears to be a 'moving feast', but we don't have any loan players with them, we have DR's. You can nominate as many DR's as you wish (Widnes have DR'd their entire squad) but the partner club can only field 5 of them per game.





I thought Troy was your home location by the way, not Northampton.

It is a moving feast but I think you are almost there!



I also believe that Danny Bridge has signed on at swinton as the league express indicated that it was now 7 that had signed and Bridge has been allocated squad number 20 at Swinton.



As far as we know there are no loan deals in place and the rest of those who have played for Swinton this year have done so on dual reg. Over the first three games these have been :

wood, McCarthy and laithwaite then

o'brien, Dwyer, laithewaite and mccarthy then

dwyer, mccarthy and currie.



Looks like there will be no DR players left this week

That is useful. I had heard Swinton were trying to sign a further Wire player but were having a contract complication.



Final piece of the jigsaw is whether Swinton can loan 'their' contracted ex Wire players back to us if we get further injury problems. Mind you at this rate it will be of no benefit, since Burke (ankle) and Riley (hand) are already out injured.

Just looking on the players twitter pages who are at Swindon, 3 of the 4 who have twitter have a Warrington related picture on their profile.

Glen Riley even states on his bio that he plays for Warrington



Surely this means that they are in some way still part of Warrington.

Technically, no. They have a contract with Swinton, not with us. But;



Life as a Championship club is tough. Swinton do not have a big squad of players that are contracted over 1 to 5 years. Each year they will agree a 1 year contract with the best players they can afford as they move into the RL season. So for me, this is the important issue; all their players will be released at the end of the season - including the ex Wire players. I think you can draw your own conclusions from there.

I think we'll lose tomorrow, possibly badly.



It's so early in the season, with so many points left, it will barely matter - although I'm sure it will feel like the end of the world on here.

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At least if we lose it make this forum busier!



Not sure about the prospects tonight to be honest, can't call it.