Who's making the long trip?

I would pick:

Mullaney
Shaw
Blythe
Purtell
Williams
Addy
Siejka
Sidlow
AOB
Clough
Olbison
Ferguson
Pitts

Mendeika
Lauaki
Crossley
Henry

Just because I think Shaw was stronger than Mendeika last week, and Mullaney was working well earlier in the season joining the attack behind the two half-backs.

Sammut signs for Workington. Game just got more difficult. You just know he'll have a blinder against us

Depends how many training sessions they've had together. If we have any sense we'll get our big blokes running right at him.

Sounds like he may not be eligible this weekend. Workington announcement says his registration isn't expected to go through in time.

Could be mind games. I guess we'll find out tomorrow.

Seems strange going from an admittedly none playing member of a SL team to a team already out of contention for the middle 8?

Sammut is not playing for Town on Sunday, he is already committed to playing for Malta against Belguim at Headingley

I bet it was him putting it about he would be playing for Worky on Sunday! The little.........Malt teaser!

So will Jarrod be going part time now then presumably?
To think it was only 3 years ago when he was playing out of his skin for us in SL. I'm not sure if it's down to bad career choices or if his heart just isn't in it anymore, but things haven't really worked out for him since then.
Hopefully he can find some form and self confidence playing regularly for Workington, they will have a great player on their books if he does.

Part time team for rest of season at least

Shaw, Uaisele, Henry, Purtell, Williams, Mullaney, Addy, Clough, O'Brien, Sidlow, Olbison, Ferguson, Pitts; Siejka, Blythe, Fleming, Crossley.

Lauaki, Mendeika.

I think Siejka will play.

Mendeika
Uaisele
Henry
Purtell
Williams
Mullaney
Siejka
Sidlow
AoB
Clough
Olbison
Pitts
Addy

Crossley
Lauaki (I would play Fleming, but don't think Jimmy will)
Ferguson
Shaw

I wasn't impressed with Mendeika last week, we looked better when Shaw came on.

We not only need Siejka to play but he needs to have a damn good game as he needs to show that he can pick up the slack caused by Gaskell's absence.

Give the man chance. He'll be coming backs from a long lay off, probably on a pitch that won't be great. I agree he definitely needs to start, but let's give him a couple of games to get going.

Agree with Paul, Mendieka didn't have best of games last week.

Not sure Medieka was any worse than anyone else last week?

Think that's fair comment.

Other than running around like a loony and putting obvious effort in, it's hard to stand out when the side as a whole is misfiring. This applies even more to a half who is depending on the forwards to give him a platform.

Here's the trouble, Siejka hasn't exactly set the world on fire since his arrival in UK rugby. So far, the only things you can say about his Bradford career is that a strong argument can be made for him being a major factor in losing to Leigh on the opening day (2 sin bins and several missed kicks). A lot of the fans are less than thrilled by him and if he doesn't start turning in some good performances a large section of the crowd is going to be on his back which won't help him get better. The pressure is definitely on him to perform, which he can do [youtubem15Ve8olPBE[/youtube

Lowes seemed to be satisfied with his contribution immediately before his injury. Perhaps he was playing the game he was required to do. We may not need him to kick goals but I would like to see an improvement in tactical kicking.
As for Mendeika I just don't get the criticism. He looks to have bags of potential and I'm confident he will become a good fit with the team. I'd be happy to see him at 6 or 1 and maybe interchanging those roles with Mullaney.

Tbh whilst we did improve after Shaw came on think it had as much to do with weather improving as the substitution. Cant remember Mendeika making any glaring errors last week.

He's been good in the games he played but last week he really struggled with te ball bobbling a long ground. Seemed to improve when Shaw came on.

With Siejka coming back, Mendieka is one to miss out for me.

I'd go:

Shaw
Uaisele
Henry
Purtell
Williams
Mullaney
Siejka
Clough
O'Brien
Sidlow
Pitts
Olbison
Addy

Ferguson
Crossley
Lauaki
Blythe

Fleming and Mendieka to miss out for me.

interesting team selection.

sjelka at standoff with addy at scrumhalf. shaw replaces uiasele on wing. mullane at fb. uiasele and fleming miss out.

was hoping we'd go sjelka mullaney in halves with sjelka in his correct position.

Listened on bcb and sounded like the props struggled again. Mullaney sounded threatening and 2 more points.

Wasn't at the game but did sound like we struggled at times. I'd freshen things up for our 3 games in 7 days, but I think Jimmyy will go with the same.

Also I think we need a bigger bench. Don't see point in having a full back on there. Especially when Blythe can play a number of positions.

Sounded like our fitness got us through again but this won't work come the super 8's. We need to start seeing better performances. At the moment we'recdoing just enough