We have had a day's extra rest than Catalan and a much shorter journey, so excuse me for not thinking thats much of an excuse for not performing.

Good point. The lads should perform with the same intensity and confidence.

Who hull got this weekend? shud be a great game, i cant wait. hope its sunny.

Away at Saints. Leeds at Wigan and Cas at home to Wire. Massive weekend plus going up to my cousins for the Haye fight and just maybe the odd snifter

Ooo, time to watch Saints throw another game just to p1$$ us off then...

They wouldn't do that...would they...?

This is Steve "Beaver" Menzies I presume. I hope he gets a hat trick as well!

Squads up:

Addy, Ah Van, Burgess, Crookes, Diskin, Donaldson, Elima, Jeffries, Hargreaves, Herbert, Kearney, Kopczak, Lynch, Platt, Raynor, Royston, Scruton, Sykes, Whitehead

Sykes and Royston in for Sibbit and Langley.

So, for me I would go:
Kearney
Paddy
Crookes
Platt
Raynor
Herbery
Jeffries
Lynch
Diskin
Hargreaves
Elima
Whitehead
Donaldson
subs:
Koppy
Burgess
Scruton
Addy

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.




Sorry

It's another head scratcher of a selection



Two hard working back row forwards out, and two backs to replace them.

Seems a little strange....

Looking at that team looks like Sykes/Royston may play centre and Whitehead moved back into second row.

Possibly Donaldson playing loose forward also.

BK
Paddy/Crookes
Shad
Platt
Raynor
Herbert
Jeffries
Lynch
Disko
Koppy
Whitehead
Elima
Hargreaves/Donno

Addy
Burgess
Scruton
Donno/Hargreaves

Sykes and Paddy/Crookes to miss out

fair comment but which forwards would you have put in ahead of sykes and royston? think olbison is still injured so that leaves o'brien,crossley and bateman with 1st team experience unless I'm missing someone. addy seems to be preferred option at 2nd hooker so that rules o'brien out. we already have 5 props in squad so thats crossley gone. Dont think potter would willingly throw bateman in against a physical team like catalans.

think its pretty likely that whitehead will move back into 2nd row with one of royston/sykes taking his spot. I'd go something like this:

Kearney
ah van
royston
platt
raynor
herbert
jeffries
lynch
diskin
kopczak
whitehead
hargreaves
elima

addy
scruton
burgess
donaldson

crookes and sykes to miss out.

Hopefully Whitehead will have a blinder in the pack and make potter want to leave him there.
As decent enough a job he has done there, he is never in the world a centre

Jee whizz, we're back to Sykes again?

Yes, that's a fair comment Mat, although it has to be noted that he [idid[/i actually throw in Bateman against Catalans over in France

Still, it looks like Whitehead to go back into the pack, and either Royston or Sykes into the backs. And I'd be pretty dischuffed it wasn't Royston

True but weren't we even worse off in terms off injury then than we are now? Think the 19 named plus crossley,Bateman and southernwood are all the uninvited players we have with 1st team experience at mo.

I'd move Whitehead back into the pack and Royston back to centre.

Seems daft leaving out our top scorer, but that seems the way we roll these days

Does nobody else on here think that Sykes is capable of having a great game? I know he has been bad in the past, but over the past couple of years it would be interesting to see how many times hes been played out of position.

I have no problem with seeing Sykes in the team if Potter thinks he's the best option this week. Royston has impressed me, but at full-back, so I owuldn't be that disappointed if he wasnt selected at centre.

The trouble with Sykes is he fails to be consistent. He can have a good game one week then follow it up with a couple of stinkers. If it was the choice between him and Royston making the team on Saturday, I'd pick Royston as he is the better player.

wirh sykes playing at centre, I only remember him having 1 poor game (salford), I dont mind him playing,

the sick he has received is a bit harsh, plays out of position to help the team and gets criticised when its not his position.

irritates me when at a game, certain 'fans' just spend the entire game shouting abuse, disgraceful really, puts his body on the line for this club.

everybody seems to forget, sykes is an international centre and was superb in his first couple of seasons, before the swapping of positions!

Don't have an issue with Sykes at centre just think Royston offers more. He's better defensively and also passes to his winger which Sykes rarely does.

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