This is where our squad depth comes into its own.

Turner out but we still have Jones/percival/Lance/Wheeler who can play centre

Sia out but we still have Flash/Jones/Manu/Wilkin as backrowers

Walsh is out, we're buggered.

but Wheeler has previously starred as a play maker, plus Wilkin/Lance can fill in in the halves


Walsh is the big loss, but its not disasterous if our pack can continue to dominate

Lomax
Makinson
Percy
Wheeler
Swift
Lance
Wilkin
Walmsley
Roby
Amor
Manu
Jones
Lms

Wello
Laffranchi
Mose
Flanaghan


That's just a quick team off the top of my head and the is other options to look at but that team above is good enough to beat wakey and Leeds IMO.

Both Wheeler and Lance have partnered Walshy at half back and although they have only played a couple of games I would imagine some of Walshy's experience would have rubbed off on them.
I would perhaps leave Lance at 6, Wheeler is a bit more adaptable and would be better at 7 he plays better in the halves than at centre.
We,ve got Lance, Wheeler, Walsh and Charnock for the halves for me getting more games from Wheeler will be a bonus and produce more game wins.

Is this just a guess?

Nothing from the club yet and nothing from the usual people who are bang on with info.

Looks like a bit of scaremongering to me and we should all just wait til we hear something reliable this week.

Lance went down to in the 1st half remember

He was ok. Manu was limping for most of 2nd half and went off limping but returned. Same with big Alex but he came back on.

Walmsley having scan today

Whilst his utility value came in handy last night with him moving to second pivot, Brown resolve to continue to pick Wello is a serious issue now.

Who ever is playing in the halves will need the best platform possible and carrying an ineffective bench player is not an option.

I would imagine next week will be Wello and Wilkin in the halves as it was for the second 40 yesterday and Hohaia to the centres since we have no back up centres. Unless we have a surprise debut from an under 19s player.

If Percival is fit then he can partner Jones and there's Wheeler too who can play centre with Wilkin and Hohaia at 6 and 7. Wellens should be nowhere near those positions.

I reckon they'll get either wheeler or Percy fit to cover centre with Jones and shift Lance back to 6, but Wellens at 6 would at least let us ramp up the pack as best we can.

We have options in the centre.

We have wheeler, Percy, Dawson, jones.

We can't let wello near the halves. He's absolutely awful there. Back to the bench for me.

Jones was poor last night. Aren't Percival and Wheeler both injured at present? No idea about Dawson. I thought he was a winger?

Wheeler isn't injured, he is fit and available for Wakefield. Percival has been injured but hopefully back for Leeds and Dawson said in pre-season that Brown sees him as a centre as much as he does a winger.

If Percy is fit, then he'll replace Turner.
Flanno will replace Sia on the bench.
Wilkin to #6, Jones to second row and Wheeler in the centres to accommodate Walsh.

Not ideal, but not the end of the world.

Lets stop this talk of Wello at half back. It depresses me. I'd rather have Wello at full back and Lomax to #7.

Percy might be fit for Wakefield.

I don't do scare mongering. Wait and see what comes out officially ....

The advantage of a good squad means you don't have to needle up players.

The fringe players are up for a shirt. Chance to see if that they are up to it.

I would rest all the weary , not out of disrespect to Wakey but common sense
for a long campaign but Easter round the corner,

Omit Lomax, Walsh Sia and Warmsley.

Give Dawson,Flanagan, and one of the young guns. Greenwood etc a go.
Wheeler and Percy to return.

Positional changes Lance FB, Dawson Centre , Wilkin 7.

I agree that with the squad depth we have we can afford to rest anyone with any niggles, assuming Wheeler and Percy to return, I would go:

6. Lance Hohaia
2. Tommy Makinson
26. Matty Dawson
22. Mark Percival
5. Adam Swift

24. Gary Wheeler
12. Jon Wilkin

16. Kyle Amor
9. James Roby
14. Anthony Laffranchi
15. Mark Flanagan
13. Willie Manu
4. Josh Jones

8. Mose Masoe
10. LMS
17. Paul Wellens
23. Joe Greenwood

Not a bad team considering that would leave 5 starting players missing:

1. Jonny Lomax
3. Jordan Turner
7. Luke Walsh
11. Sia Soliola
18. Alex Walmsley

I was about to say that the above is a squad that should be able to take Wakefield, but haven't they scored 100 points in the last week or so? Could this be a tougher ask then we imagine? I was impressed with the way we handle what I perceived as a banana skin in HKR. Hopefully we'll really pull out some muscle and grind the win out.

Ant Walker will probably get the nod before greenwood, and his work rate may be very helpful.

London Broncos 22 v 50 Wakefield Trinity Wildcats
Wakefield Trinity Wildcats 56 v 14 Catalans Dragons

They're certainly not to be taken lightly but I think that squad would be enough. I'd also rather take a loss at this point than aggravate a niggling injury on our of our best players and put them out long term.

Why no lomax ?

Lomax picked up a couple of knocks yesterday, I'm sure he could play with them if needs be.

Looked ok when I seen him today.

Lomax will be playing.