No Nene, McDonnell or Corey. Gannon returns. Otherwise as you were.

This has to get Sinfield in the halves surely.

Hooley
Fusitua
Newman
Martin
Handley
Sinfield
Sezer
Oledski
OConner
Walters/Holroyd
Gannon
Bentley
Smith

Lisone
Walters/Holroyd
Donaldson
Ruan/Edgell

We're down to bare bones again

Probably about right. Maybe an argument to play Luis Roberts in the centre and get Martin into the back row.

I think we need Martin to defend on Naquamas side

I'm hoping Rohan goes with something like this.

Hooley
Fusitu'a
Newman
Roberts
Handley
Sinfield
Sezer
Oledzki
O'Connor
Walters
Bentley
Martin
Smith

Subs

Lisone
Holroyd
Donaldson
Ruan/ Gannon

Our spine positions are very low at the minute so I reckon Rohan can only go forward heavy on our bench.

As long as he doesn`t play Gannon in the halves.

Think Smith may have to spell O'Connor at 9 at some point.

Will he use Bentley to spell O'Connor?
I doubt we'll start with Sinfield or Newman but do you really want 2 backs on the bench?
Would think Smith might start in the halves with Martin at centre unless they are confident enough that Newman is fit enough to do 80 mins.
Unfortunately this is the result of having an extremely young squad in the back up positions. We could do with winning this one.

Sinfield is in the squad for tonights academy game so doubt he'll feature on Sunday

They really don't want to rush him. Would think he might make the 18 in case Sezer picks up an injury but definitely don't think he'll be starting.

Sinfield is still only 18 and still qualifies for academy next season, no rush for him, think he will be on championship loan and maybe 10 -12 first team games next season.

That would make sense.

hmmm...

Hooley
Fus, Newman, Martin, Handley
Smith, Sezer
Oledski, O'Connor, Lisone
Bentley, Donaldson
Gannon

Walters, Holroyd, Johnson, Ruan

With Sinfield playing reserves might we see Edgell on the bench?

I bet we see someone like Rhyse playing at stand-off!

I’m worried about this one we’re going to have to play better than we have recently despite some team changes…

No Johnson so maybe Edgell…

I'm not, the season is pretty much gone and any wins are a bonus, performances and individual progress that points in the right direction is what I'm interested in seeing.

I'm still one defeat away from having this point of view. That said, I'd have been very tempted to give jack the full game, given the bare bones scenario

Unfortunately won't happen now with him playing the 80 last night.

I still feel we could make the 6, one or two teams above us have inconsistent form.

If we can squeeze in and get some bodies back / lucky with injuries we could cause another surprise or two.

Just think it’s going to be really hard to do much more this year without a high quality stand off.

Based on the season so far I don`t think we deserve a top 6.
Both HKR and Salford have been better than us and Warrington must eventually find some form not to mention Hull.
I would say to make the 6 we need to win every game from now and hope results go our way which whilst doable is a big ask.

Agree, don’t think we deserve to now either but if can win our remaining then we would.

I don’t think we will but if we get some luck who knows.

I don't want to scrape into 6th this year.
We need to finish 9th or 10th to have a proper wake up call at the club.
Finishing 6th would paper over the cracks like last season and GH would laud it as a fantastic effort!
Not to mention that we don't deserve it.
We need significant investment. Not just patching up gaps with whatever is available in the market.

Great game this, Brisbane v Canberra.
Jeez, Brisbane have got some star quality across the park.
Missing Reynolds at 7 as well.