1. Paul Wellens, 3. Jordan Turner, 4. Sia Soliola, 6. Lance Hohaia, 10. Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook, 11. Tony Puletua, 14. Anthony Laffranchi, 16. Paul Clough, 19. Josh Jones, 21. Tom Makinson, 22. Carl Forster, 23. Nathan Ashe, 24. Joe Greenwood, 25. Alex Walmsley, 26. Adam Swift, 30. Mark Percival, 33. Luke Thompson, 35. Lewis Charnock, 36. Stuart Howarth.

Makinson
Percival/Turner
Turner/Percival
Jones
Swift
Wellens
Hohaia
LMS
Howarth
Clough
Soliola
Laffranchi
Puletua

Ashe
Greenwood
Walmsley
Thompson

Charnock and Forster to miss out.

1.Wellens (through gritted teeth)
2.Makinson
3.Turner
4.Percival
5.Swift
6.Charnock
7.Ashe
8.Laffranchi
9.Hohaia
10.TP
11.Jones
12.Soliola
13.Clough

14.Walmsley
15.Greenwood
16.Forster/LMS
17.Thompson/LMS

Howarth to run the water on for Rochdale seconds

No Wello?

He's terrible but we seem obsessed with trying to fit him in somewhere so given this and injuries he should be at fullback

??

Wellens
Makinson
Turner
Percival
Swift
Ashe
Hohaia
Laffranchi
Howarth
McCarthy-Scarsbrook
Puletua
Soliola
Clough

Bench

Jones
Greenwood
Walmsley
Thompson

Wellens for Wilkin, my bad

It's not necessarily what I'd go with, but it's what I think Brown will go with.

The last few weeks have shown us the benefits of having pace at full-back and last week taught us that neither Wellens or Howarth is a half-back. LMS has been a joke recently. I also dont see the point in moving our nost dangerous centre for a while moved out to the wing. With that in mind I'd like to see:

Makinson
Swift
Jones
Percival
Turner
Ashe/Charnock
Hohaia
Walmsley
Howarth/Ashe
Laffranchi
Soliola
Puletua
Wellens

Clough
Greenwood
Thompson
Forster

LMS and one of Charnock/Howarth to miss out.

LMS aint gonna miss out regardless of form. We need all the experience we can get & lack size as it is. Forster & Charnock to miss out IMO. Brown has already stated Ashe will play in halves.

He's stated he will play, are you sure he has specified in the halves?

As for LMS, you'd expect him not to make mistakes and give away penalties given his "experience" but that isn't the case.

Personally would like to see Carl Forster play. He is a prop in the proper sense of the word, and not a converted backrower.


Looking at the squad it appears nathan brown is keeping his options open as to who plays were.

Someone on RedVee is claming this is the team;

Makinson
Swift
Turner
Jones
Percival
Charnock
Ashe
LMS
Howarth
Puletua
Soliola
Laffranchi
Wellens

Hohaia
Clough
Walmsley
Thompson

Best halves we've had for a few weeks!

Charnock/Ashe seems a lot better than Wellens/Howarth, if that's the right team.

Hopefully they can do well!

Greenwood and Forster aren't playing, don't know about the line up yet.

Any idea why on greenwood? Also on latest on manu's injury? Anyone else that should return soon?

Its a bit of a head scratcher for me why Forster hasn't featured, especially when everyone else and their dog has. He showed he could be pretty solid at SL level last year (which is positively marvellous for us at the minute).

Makinson
Swift
Turner
Jones
Percival
Charnock
Ashe
TP
Howarth
Lms
Laffranchi
Sia
Wello

Clough
Walmsley
Greenwood
Hohaia

So all of a sudden we have two young halves, both of whom have only played at most one game this season. Why on earth did Brown not play either of these when we had Wilkin on the pitch? Why did he go with Wello instead?

The odd desperate desire to Wello on the field at any cost ?

I'm amazed that lance is not playing in the halves this week.

The line up is subject to chance tho, Brown has changed it around a few times this year.

Yeah. The man's driving me nuts.

The surprises keep coming. Our pack looks stronger with Laffranchi in the 2nd row.

Does Charnock have a kicking game? If not it's all down to Howarth and Hohaia *grimace*.

I'm asking myself the same question really. I'd say it was a sign of desperation, but Wellens being put there was exactly that: desperate.

The only thing that I can think of is that we were building up towards the challenge cup tie, so we wanted some consistency, but now because we only have to think about September we can start to try these young players and see how they do? That's the only explanation that I can think of tbh!