Cant see both Ava and Martin starting if they dont land til Wednesday. I actually think Martin will be used as an impact sub for the rest of the season.

Lunt was in a boot yesterday so might not be ready for Fri. As others have said tho he needs to start and Dwyer on bench. Again to add impact.

Agar confirmed that Lunt, Seumanufagai, JJB will be available in the YEP, likely that Martin will be involved as he’s fit and ready. Peteru could play, Walker and Hurrell doubts.

Walker is very injury prone... both him and Hurrell would be huge losses. Cant see us winning without

Be interesting what we do for backup FB with Tui gone, if we need one. Probably Sutcliffe?

They may be forced to actually give Golding a start in a league game this season.

Yeah maybe Golding. Would imagine Ava takes Albert’s place and Martin may be on the bench.

Hopefully Golding as we cant keep moving Sutty around so much. How the hell is he meant to improve if hes playing second row one week stand off the next then full back the next...

Walker's missed a lot of games over 2 years. We need a better reserve than hoping Sutcliffe or Newman can fill in - its too specialised for that. I'd keep Golding if we don't have another specialist.

You do realise that Golding has been unvailable injured for more matches over the last two years?

At the same time? My point is we can't bet everything on having one capable fullback. I get you don't rate Golding, but I'd far rather him than shoehorn Newman or another non-fullback.

I agree with you on the capable cover. I just don't think Golding is the answer. It either has to be a youngster from the reserves set up, or as normally happens utilising a winger or centre who can play various positions, i.e. what I suggested.

Surely you wouldn't want to move Newman though? He's a centre and should be allowed to learn his trade there.

I was just offering him as a name who could fulifll that role also IF it was required. From the players we have, centre appears easier to cover than fullback.

Wing is always the last place i would look to strengthen when you have many other areas as we do; but it's hard not to come to the conclusion that our options there are thin on the ground and that in turn leaves us with limited options at FB as if you have a good rotation of 3/4 wingers you normally have one who can fill in well at FB as we did when we had BJB for example.

Newman will get a big defensive test at centre on Friday, he has a tendency to get drawn in and allow his centre on the outside.

That’s not a good trait v Cas left edge attack. Reckon he will be targeted

I wouldn't worry unduly.

Of course I would sooner have Golding covering FB goes without saying.
But how about Newman to FB with Tom Briscoe to centre and Luke Briscoe on the wing.
Tom played well there in a friendly and his defence is ok.
But if Hurrell is missing I would leave Newman and have Golding at FB.
Keep Sutcliffe in the SR.

This will be an interesting one to see if you have turned a corner or if catalans are as bad as everyone thinks. You only beat them by a similar score to what london did to them on their own patch a couple of weeks earlier so a difficult one to measure

Not really. Catalans are much better than London really. London got hammered by Cas. Friday whatever happens can not be measured to Sunday’s game. I would much rather be playing Hull KR, and Hull, before playing Cas. Then we could have been able to tell better if we have turned.

Hull are beter than cas but you'll beat us no matter how well we're playing. How many years is it since we won at headingley?

2007?

Liam Sutcliffe's only place in the team for me is reserve full back.

Give Alex Sutcliffe a game in the centres.

Walker ruled out so Golding is called up, if he gets his chance let’s see how he takes it.

Martin, Ava and Lunt in the squad I would go

Golding
Briscoe
Newman
Hurrell
Handley
Lui
Myler
Cuthbertson
Lunt
Ava
Sutcliffe
Martin
Merrin

Oledski
Dwyer
Donaldson
Singleton

Cas have a few out so maybe a good chance to sneak a rare win at the Jungle

They have no choice but to play Golding from that squad. We can't go with Sutcliffe again there.

I think Sutcliffe will be centre, I don’t think Hurrell will play