Reiss Butterworth Brandon Wilkinson and Evan Hodgson into consideration for Sunday. interesting to see that Reiss is now described as a stand off, previously scrum half and hooker. Whatever, he looks to have the ability to play in any of those 3 positions, so it will be interesting to see where he plays, if he gets any time . probably unused bench.

Having seen both of the friendly games, I thought Butterworth looked better in the halves than he did at hooker.

I suspected that was the case from the three you tube videos, but wasn't sure if it was change of position from half to hooker or the change of age group, but live trumps video so thanks for your observation. Didn't he get a two year contract?

If Fev are without the 5 Leeds players it should be interesting as it may be easier to replace our 3 loanees rather than 5

except we're missing 5 too as larroyer and murray are also ineligble.

FWIW you can only play 4 DR players in anyone game (though) you could have a loan player also. i.e. a max of 5 loan/DR players.

We had 2 players on DR in the last game v Sheffield (Ormondroyd who is out injured and Handley) so I guess that we will be replacing these 2 players since I can't see us being allowed to play any DR or loan players in this game.

Looking forward to the game and hopefully a Fev win, but suspect that this might be closer than some (including me) may think.

Squad:
Bentley, Butterworth, Campbell, Halafihi, Hodgson, Keyes, Kirk, Lumb, Macani, Magrin, Mendeika, Moore, Oakes, Peltier, Pryce, Roche, Ryan, Thomas, Wilkinson


Big holes to fill in the pack with Oledzki, Murray and Larroyer all missing. Pleased to see Moore there though. Also no Smith, injured already?

I'd go:

Thomas
Campbell
Mendeika
Oakes
Ryan
Pryce
Keyes
Magrin
Moore
Kirk
Roche
Wilkinson
Bentley

Lumb
Peltier
Hodgson
Macani

Vila and Reiss Butterworth to miss out.

Judging by Reiss's tweets, he's playing sunday.

Id have him on the bench and look to spell or replace Leon if possible;

Thomas
Campbell
Mendeika
Oakes
Ryan
Pryce
Keyes
Magrin
Moore
Kirk
Roche
Wilkinson
Bentley

Lumb
Peltier
Hodgson
Butterworth

Still a decent looking side that should give a good account of itself against what looks like a good Featherstone side. Im looking forward to a game where the winning or losing doesn't feel quite so important. The next four league games are massive for us, Dewsbury(H), Oldham(A), Sheff(H) and Fax(H). 3 wins from that lot and we'll be back on terms and zero points!

/thought Keyes was in a boot last week and out for a while?. if he's genuinely available, Think I'd be tempted to leave Pryce out entirely and have Keyes-Thomas in halves with Campbell at FB. and bearing in mind Thomas looked to get a knock last week bring him off to accommodate Butterworth. No point risking anyone with niggles more than necessary in a meaningless game from our POV. But at same time we want to put as competitive a team as possible out to keep teams confidence up.

The Fev 19-Man Squad: Andy Bostock, Anthony Thackeray, Brad Tagg, Chris Ulugia, Darrell Griffin, Frankie Mariano, Ian Hardman, James Duckworth, James Lockwood, Jason Walton, John Davies, Josh Hardcastle, Keal Carlile, Kyle Briggs, Luke Cooper, Matty Wildie, Richard Moore, Sam Day, Scott Turner.

I would go with the following team, but wouldn't be surprised to se Hardcastle and Day to be included to give them game time.
Hardman
Turner
Ulugia
Walton
Duckworth
Thackeray
Wildie
Griffin
Carlile
Bostock
Lockwood
Davis
Tagg

Briggs
Mariano
Cooper
Moore

Side is reminiscent of that which was out muscled by Rochdale in game 2. Shows how much we rely on the loan lads.

Hope Smith isn't too badly injured, we could've done with him getting more fitness back in this game.

I'll accept a fev win if we dont pick any injuries up; but if we lose the game and some key players through injury that will really put the odds against us going into the next few important games.

Would like to win this and get a tie vs Fax or Cougars. Hopefully get on a run, nice little boost to the coffers if we can fill Shay or Cougar Park. Then Rhinos in 5th Round.

Not getting ahead of myself or anthing though.

No, you're obviously not. Feet most clearly planted on planet Earth..

Weather sounds bad

you would have thought the electrics would have been sorted out after all these years

ISDN line down earlier so using mobile to broadcast.

Aww loving the random BCB songs; Led Zep, Oasis, Corrs and half of Level 42. So Level 21.

Fair play to BCB though for sorting it out in the end.

Awful weather. Getting bullied a bit up front but clinging on so far.

Mendeika taken off injured.

6-6

7-7

Rate proper scoreline that

a disappointing end to the game, i don't think Fev will get into SL

Great effort from our young lads that. The likes of Hodgson and Wilkinson played big big minutes too. Very proud of the effort.