Tomkins

Charnley

Hughes

Thornley

Richards

Green

Smith

Dudson

McIlorum

Flower

Farrell

Burke

O'Loughlin



Eric (if fit) otherwise Taylor

Crosby

Tuson

Powell



Flower should be a definite starter at prop i thought him and lockers where our best players against london Flower ran the hardest ive seen him run since he first pulled on the shirt and lockers defence was brutal. Id drop Logan i wasnt too impressed with his distribution against london and i think Powell offers more versitility.

No Goulding?

Did he miss the London game through illness. If so he should be back and one of Hughes, Burke and Tuson to miss out, presumably Tuson unless Wane rests Burke like Taylor and Powell this week.

On Radio Manchester after the London match Wane said he didn't expect Goulding to be fit for the Cas game.

On Radio Manchester after the London match Wane said he didn't expect Goulding to be fit for the Cas game.

On Radio Manchester after the London match Wane said he didn't expect Goulding to be fit for the Cas game.

Sounds like Goulding isn't expected to be fit then





Going off that I'd go-



Tomkins

Charnley

Hughes

Thornley

Richards

Green

Smith

Crosby

McIlorum

Dudson

Farrell

Tuson

Lockers



Subs

Taylor

Flower

Burke

Powell



Could be a tough task at Cas on Sunday but it's a fabulous learning curve for lads like Thornley, Hughes, Crosby, Burke and Powell. These sorts of matches are the ones that will really test their bottle and they'll be better players for the experience.

This is the 17 I'd expect

Bloody hell, add him to the list! Any word on Gelling? I'd be inclined to give him a shot if he's fit. He's yet to lay a first team game at centre

I think Gelling is out for six weeks.

Gelling is done for 6 weeks. Add in the other long term injuries and you have to hope the club is looking very hard to sign a couple of players to add some depth to the squad.



We're just about coping with the absences at the moment but we're an injury to a forward and an injury to a back away from being in a real bad shape IMO. I remember reading our old boss Michael Maguire talking about Souths starting to look at the loan Market in terms of players going out to get game time and experience if they're not in their first 17. Maybe they have a couple of lads that could give us some temporary depth like Tom Burgess for example. Surely he'd be better playing over here then not playing there?



We'll see how we go I suppose.

Tomkins

Charnley

Hughes

Thornley

Richards

Green

Smith

Dudson

McIlorum

Flower

Farrell

Tuson

O'Loughlin



Taylor

Burke

Crosby

Tomkins



I'd pick Tomkins over Powell based on the fact that he needs game time and cant play anywhere else! I think we will see this often during the season Tomkins playing 2 games, then Powell playing the next 2 etc. I'd reward the best performer with the big games like Saints/Warrington/Leeds or any Semis/finals we may get to.



Id rather see the above team in a competitive game vs Castleford than see a full strength team go over there and put 40 on them ala recent years.



Looking forward to it.