Castleford looked good this afternoon so we will have to be on top of our game to get anything from this. Hopefully there is some good news with players that didn’t play yesterday. Full expecting the same 21 man squad.

Briscoe, Gale, Oledzki, Leeming, Prior, Mellor, Martin, Tetevano, Dwyer, Sutcliffe, Myler, Smith, Vuniyayawa, Thompson, Sutcliffe, Walters, Briscoe, Donaldson, O’Connor, Broadbent, Eastmond.

Looking forward to this one. Cas will stick it to us, we will have to aim up a bit from the last performance.

Unless Eastmond comes in then I think Agar will go with the same team. I wood start with Smith at 13 and have him and Gale as ball players.

I’d play Smith at 6.
Broadbent and either one of the Sutcliffes in the centre.
Then give a bench spot to Walters or King.

Eastmond at 6. Get him on the field.

Right side defence needs sorting. Powell won't have overlooked that element of our performance, that's for sure

The whole RHS defence was a systematic failure, people out of position, poor communication and questionable technique.

Needs fixing quickly.

We also defended very narrowly, again something that coaches won’t be missing...

It would have to be Liam.

Myler, T Briscoe, L Sutcliffe, Broadbent, L Briscoe, Eastmond, Gale, Oledski, Leeming, Prior, Donaldson, Martin, Smith; Dwyer, Tetevano, Thompson, Walters.

I’d go with this for Cas I think. If Eastmond not ready then L Sutcliffe at 6 and A Sutcliffe at 3. That is a handy looking bench IMO.

Absolutely no chance Mellor is missing out and I would also go as far as saying as good as Broadbent was, Alex Sutcliffe would be in before him currently.

Myler; T Briscoe L Sutcliffe A Sutcliffe L Briscoe; Eastmond Gale; Oledzki Leeming Prior; Martin Mellor; Tetevano

Dwyer Vuniyayawa Smith/Donaldson/Thompson

Walters O’Connor Broadbent

Obviously if Eastmond isn’t ready, then L Sutcliffe to six with Broadbent back in at centre.

Gotta play Eastmond. Think we'll basically be handing Cas the points if we play Sutty at 6 again....

This is a massive test , not only due to our injury situation, but more because Cas were superb today , and totally outplayed Wire . If we only have Gale as a playmaker , they will not give him an inch , whilst they have Trueman , MacShane and a cracking full back to make them tick.
I know its early days , but our second row of Mellor and Martin is looking poor - they had no impact at all against Wakey . On todays display , Oliver Holmes will murder them on his own.

For all Cas looked good I thought Wire were awful, with the squad they have they should be better, Price should go early, I get the feeling the cas side will want to give powell a good send off, I don’t get that feeling with Warrington.

Don’t fancy us against Cas tbh with the current 17 available. We’ll need to be much much better

According to Agar a decision will be made later this week.He's either making his debut this week or next.

Spot on this Chris , when it got tough they didnt want to know whereas Cas kept turning up for each other.

We should hopefully have Danny Richardson back as well. Just to put things in perspective I thought Wire were very poor yesterday. Half of them didn't look interested.

Cas looked Ok but nothing more really. As previous posters have said, wolves were distinctly average.My biggest concern is that they figure out that if they can give gale a few big hits they could leave us with nothing that resembles a decent half back.

Myler is going to be in for a busy game if Cas' kicking game is a similar level to what it was against Warrington. Keeping Trueman quiet will be key

Oliver Holmes

Looking forward to the game.
I thought Warrington were poor and we should have beaten them by more. We had a number of repeat sets on their line and didn’t come away with points.
Trueman, McShane and Evalds might rip your right edge apart unless you fix up the issues from last week. You don’t need to be a SL coach to see that weakness in your right-edge defence and the potency of our left edge attack. I’d expect most of our play to target that.
Cas v Leeds is always one of the games I most look forward to.

Our right edge wasn't so bad - we conceded a few breaks but Johnstone can burn most sides in the league. Tupou is a handful as well.

I'd give Cas the edge in the spine but Leeds in the pack overall. Close to call but I'd expect Gale to be better and I don't think Cas' left hand side is as potent as Wakey's. Myler needs a good game for us with Trueman's short kicking game causing problems.

Thought Dan Smith was good against Wire, very interested to see how the brothers go against each other. Hopefully Cam will get more game time this week.

Bad news for you is that Schoey has tipped you to win in his League Express column.

I had to read your first line several times to believe you wrote it. The right edge were pulled apart all over the place not just on the line breaks. Cas will have similar joy without major improvement in that area.

Couple of breakaway trys can happen in any game with Johnstone, he's that quick!