There’s a difference between hoping and being pragmatic about it, I hope we make e playoffs but if we don’t it won’t be such a bad thing.

I think I read the injuries were the same but whereas Miks recovering from an op, King as yet hasn't had surgery and could play jabbed up at a push.

All this talk of losing to not make playoffs is a joke right? What a fanbase. Jeez.

Yep agree. Beat rovers and we'll be at wire or Wigan. Either is winnable.

It would be nice for next week to be a dead rubber, we can use it to rest a few and get some fitness for anyone returning from injury.

You can bet the club will be going all in for a play off spot. Week unlikely to even get to the final, but you have to be in it to win it, and anything can happen in 80 mins

Can't see it. Unless HKR get an absolute tonking against Cas. If they just lose they are trying to make up about a 40 point deficit which can be done when we play each other. I wouldn't be resting players if we needed to avoid defeat by more than 20 points. If Cas put a 40 point beating on them then go for it!

PS 12 all at the moment! Quite exciting in it's own way. If Cas lose we're above them but they play Wire last who are resting players for fun by the looks of it so it would be a straight shootout between us and Rovers I imagine.

I want Leeming starting at 9. Not sure how we then fill one of the half back spaces but we need to set the right platform from the start.

Cracking entertainment this KR v Cas game. If KRnt are 7th in the league then SL is doing alright.

They're 5th

Got a bad feeling about next week's game after watching KR & Cas, Can just see Hall shrugging off the shoulder knock & skinning our wingers for pace ala that Huddersfield night.....


Why did we let Parcell go again??

KR looked to have picked up a couple of knocks tonight, but with Abdull and Parcel they are better organised than us.

Should be a cracker.

Let’s hope Warrington do us a favour as Hull KR definitely have the game to beat our depleted team and have proved hard for us to cope with over recent times

Warrington will rest a fair few i would have thought, we can’t rely on that game.

Not confident if I’m honest

Should have a bit more direction with Lui returning. Johnson to start and Dwyer to the bench gives us the best chance of winning.

Well if Cas are 7th SL.is even better off. Lets hope they stay 7th.

What was the reason given for Prior going off and not returning at Saints? Hope hes good to go for KRnt game.

Agree hope for a wire win but unlikely. Hope you got parked ok at saints, that car park was closed, apologies.
Re HKR
Although Johnson played a promising cameo, he has played 15 minutes in 2 years and his only other game was another last 15 minutes. I’d be amazed if he started I don’t think he is ready, be quite surprised if he is on the bench. Plenty of promise but needs a proper pre-season.

He's played a number of full games for York recently, he shouldn't be too far off - although totally agree he needs a proper pre-season, along with everyone else if we're going to challenge next year.

The problem with Dwyer starting for me is that he is less effective running against fresh markers, and his poor distribution harms our ability to run wide of the middle with any fluency. When we're light down the middle that's even more of an issue.

I don't know what the answer is. Maybe Leeming starts and we use someone else in at 7 to partner Lui.

I do like Dwyer as I've said elsewhere, and cannot fault his grit. Maybe people see his running and tries and associate him only with that: not the three tries we haven't scored because he takes the wrong options/poor execution from DH. I want to see our first receivers with the ball delivered at their fingertips consistently, to give them half a chance of establishing momentum in the attack.

Agree Dwyer is much more effective off the bench. Think same applies to Johnson at moment. Maybe O’connor Starts at hooker or if we could get enough forwards, play leeming at hooker and Lui and smith in the halves. No easy answers with such a busted squad. Looks like a tough game
To win.

No way Warrington will want to lose against Cas - the coaching changes for a start!!

Warrington squad named and no one is being rested.

Cooper, Philbin and Lineham all come back in.

Warrington Wolves 21-man squad: Sitaleki Akauola, Matty Ashton, Blake Austin, Josh Charnley, Jason Clark, Mike Cooper, Ben Currie, Eribe Doro, Chris Hill, Jack Hughes, Tom Lineham, Ellis Longstaff, Jake Mamo, Robbie Mulhern, Joe Philbin, Stefan Ratchford, Josh Thewlis, Tom Whitehead, Gareth Widdop, George Williams, Connor Wrench.

Good news. Wonder who will play hooker? Cas look very strong too with McShane and Watts back in the squad.

Doubt McShane is fully fit - thought they really missed him recently.

Wouldn't worry about Wire not wanting to win this one, should be a competitive game. We have another three days to see whether we're out of this season or not.

Really we need Warrington to do the job against Cas don't we? Not bothered at all whether we finish 5th or 6th, swings and roundabouts.

I'd rather be playing Wigan than Warrington in the 1st round of the playoffs, not really looking at the 2nd round as i don't really expect us to get there either way. Bonus if we do.
Got to beat KR 1st anyway, unless Warrington do us a favor on Thursday

I've not been impressed with Wigan most of this year, but I think if we drew Wire we get an extra day rest/prep?

Both matches should be good this week, lots to play for and there's not a huge difference between the sides.