Still 2 props short. Especially ones with plenty of experience.

Kirk looks promising though. Hope we can avoid burning him out.

How many is plenty and Barlow is not match fit

bit like Samir (or Andy as the Rochdale fans behind me where saying) couple of games couple of errors and never seen again

4 Wigan Dual Reg players in Swinton's 19-man squad. Tom Davies, Liam Forsyth, Jack Higginson & Romain Navarette

Well, to be fair we would have had four Leeds players if two of them weren't injured...

I was thinking about going to this, seeing as the sun is shining. I have friends in Swinton too but I've just looked it up and they play in Sale. Which is the other side of Manchester. Is that right?

Have I been asleep for a year or something?

They are about 10 miles apart. It's 50 miles to Sale from Bradford.

Better to get to than Widnes like last year.

Only just off the M60 ring, but coming from Bradford as you are it is the other side of manchester, just need to follow it further round past trafford centre, im just outside swinton so isnt a great disatance.

You are right, they are over near the Brooklands tram stop, Sale football ground now but used to be Sale Sharks. Not sunny here just now either!

Is it on the radiogram?

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Think it depends on whether or not your radiogramme has that new fangled FM on it..

It certainly has a cat's whisker. I can send the wife onto the roof if you tell me where to point it.
p.s. A radiogram must be a measurement of weight for radios.

Its short for a combined radio and gramophone player which evolved into stereogram then shortened to stereo!

Its short for a combined radio and gramophone player which evolved into stereogram then shortened to stereo!

I'm going to watch Halifax and Sheffield today. I'm taking my wireless to get score updates on the Bulls game

Don't let the Whitehaven fans hear this kind of talk. They will accuse you of witchcraft!

Team is looking much better although lilley will be a loss. We still may be a few weeks away though which we really don't have to spare.

I used to see this black fella at Odsal in the crowd. He always had a leather jacket and a flat cap on but was always glued to the wireless at his ear.

I don't know who he was but he sure loved his rugby and was one of those legendary characters you remember for life.

Anybody else recall him?

Aren't we all using wireless connections, these days?

Nah, it's just an Americanism - they always had bother with words like radiogramme and telegramme.....and don't get me going about sodding 'train' stations...

Yes remember him. Also anyone remember old Harry, looked a bit like a mad professor, always had his radio with him listening to other scores.We always used to ask him how the Northern were going on and he would always tell us, even though we were there at the game. The things you do to amuse yourself after a few pints ha. Happy days

If it's the same guy he used to stand near me and it wasn't a small radio he had with him

I don't remember Harry. I remember Mark who used to wander around the ground sending people off and going to the big screen for a T.R.Y. Massive Bulls and City fan for years. Had a pump attack down Wyke not long back, my mate was on scene giving him first aid. I hope he pulled through. Thoroughly nice chap.

Teams out:

14. Oscar Thomas
2. Ethan Ryan
4. Ross Oakes
3. James Mendeika
5. Iliess Macani
6. Leon Pryce
7. Joe Keyes
11. Colton Roche
33. Scott Moore
15. Jon Magrin
16. Kevin Larroyer
20. James Bentley
30. Josh Jordan-Roberts

8. Liam Kirk
26. Vila Halafihi
31. Mikolaj Oledzki
32. Johnny Walker

Debuts for Larroyer and Moore. Campbell and Peltier miss out. Peltier will be a loss IMO.

Pack looks a bit lightweight, so it seems odd that Peltier isn't in there.

And its surely now obvious that Campbell simply isn't going to be picked - and he'll fall even further down the pecking order now with Lee Smith to come in

Thing is for me. Campbell is a better fullback than Thomas. In the halves Thomas isn't bad. But I think he is being picked at fullback based on two performances last season especially when he did that full lengther against Workington. It's obvious that Beattie sees Thomas as 1st choice though now. Can't even say he's in for his kicking as Keyes is back!

Aye Peltier decision is a confusing one. I'd have had Kirk and Magrin as props. Roche and Larroyer and Bentley as the 11, 12 and 13. With Peltier, Walker, Halafihi and Oledzki on the bench!