Diskin & Walker & Wood all miss out. Diskin & Walker must be carrying injuries, Wood because we actually have some forwards so don't need as many backs in the squad.

Baldwinson, Nas & Kaufusi replace those 3.

Diskin missing is a big blow to our chances IMO. We look a lot better in stints where he's on pitch as opposed to obrien who's still learning.

Yeah, we've few enough leaders on the pitch. We really need Gale to step up and be the leader he's supposed to be this weekend

Danny Addy, Joe Arundel, Jordan Baldwinson, Nathan Conroy, James Donaldson, Jamie Foster, Luke Gale, Lee Gaskell, Luke George, Adam Henry, Manase Manuokafoa, Antonio Kaufusi, Elliot Kear, Adam O'Brien, Tom Olbison, Alex Mellor, Jay Pitts, Adrian Purtell, Adam Sidlow.

Diskin and Walker should be back next week vs wakey (doesnt Kaufusi's loan expire after this game?)

Kear
Foster
Arundel
Henry
George
Gaskell
Gale
Nas
O'Brien
Kaufusi
Purtell
Addy
Donno

Pitts
Sidlow
Baldwinson
Conroy

Bit of a difficult one this as we have a few players who all play in the same position.

Kaufusi is available for wakefield game. We got him for 4 games rather than 4 weeks.

So we get two back from injury and lose another two. Just to keep it all nice and even!

I hope we can work out a longer deal for him, he's really provided some punch to our forward line

Thats good then mat, depends if they rate him as highly as Mullaly he starting getting some form and hudds took him back.

Least our front line is looking better.

Think one of articles mentioned Fakir,Blythe and Ferguson could be fit for wakefield game too.

Pretty much what I would go with. Although swap Sidlow with Nas and Pitts with Addy. Hope we actually play the young ones and not start playing silly beggars and playing Second Rowers at stand off, stand off at full back just because they are "more experienced" Play the young hooker at hooker.

Hopefully can keep Kaufusi longer. Hudds are winning and don't have any injuries at moment.

Gaskell
Kear
Arundel
Henry/George
Foster
Addy
Gale
Kaufusi
AoB
Nas
Olbison
Purtell
Donno

Conroy
Sidlow
Baldwinson
Pitts

Baldwinson is definitely playing on Saturday (he confirmed on twitter) so I guess that means Mellor misses out. I'm in two minds who should play out of George/Henry/Arundel, I don't think there's much between any of them really.

I'm not sure I'd play young Conroy against a very physical Catalan side, I'd go with another back rower and let Addy go to dummy half when O'Brien is off the field.

If we go that route then it pretty much means Gaskell has to play in halves and kear at FB. You don't want three players switching position mid match to accommodate one substitution. Think I tend to agree with you though. Think gaskells more effective at FB than SO but o'brien and conroy seem to have pretty similar styles and at putting addy in mix would shake things up a little and give Catalans something else to think about..

Did you watch Gaskell at FB last week? He was awful! Dropped two high kicks and Broughton ran round him like he wasn't there. Addy doesn't work at hooker. Never has, never will. Give Conroy a go! Can he be any worse than what we have seen from others this year? I bet Conroy won't miss as many tackles as Addy will in the game.

Pack issues aside, I'd love to see Gaskell and Pryce up against each other at stand off. Lee reminds me of Leon in his style so I hope the Bull can step up.

Also, if (when) we get relegated, I can see Leon Pryce joining us for a stint in the ChampionSuperLeagueship 2 thing.

Conroy can't be any worse than that midget Catalans will bring on to replace Pelissier. You know, the son of the chairman, which has absolutely no correlation to him being in the side, honest

Guasch isn't in the 19 man squad this week.

But Baile is, yay! Henry may aswell jump into the mighty Frenchman's back pocket now!!

Does Millward even look at team sheets or last meetings between teams when doing his predictions or does he just roll out his bulls will get thrashed prediction every week?.

He's usually right though....

I'd agree with you. Addy is not a Hooker, nor is he a starting stand off. Back row is where we need him and where he does most damage.

Conroy has always impressed me. Seems to have a lot of speed off the mark and likes to go forward which is sometimes missing. Think he'd do well coming off the bench and running at the big guys.

I do get nervous when O'Brien plays though. The guy just can't finish off a tackle... he just seems to cling on and hope that someone comes in to help. If we still had the hugely embarrassing nicknames that we tried to introduce a while back, this guy would be called The Limpet!!!

Big game today , having a few props will be great. . Not too sure about hooker would like conroy to get a chance and would drop Henry from centre . Need gale and Gaskell to be on point today as no disko leaves us a bit short in attack. As franny says hopefully the season starts today

Come on you bulls ! Win this and Wakey plus get any points back and we back in the mix

Huge game today for us. On current league positions it would appear a 'winnable' match for us, however Catalan are a much tougher prospect on home turf. I expect it to be physical and it might well come down to a mistake in the dying minutes to decide the winners. Hope the players are really up for this one, it would be huge to go into the Wakefield game with a win behind us.

Bulls line up.

Gaskell
Kear
Arundel
Purtell
Foster
Addy
Gale
Sidlow
O'brien
Kaufusi
Olbison
Pitts
Donno

Conroy
Nas
Henry
Baldwinson

I do wish Cummins would stop putting backs on the bench just because they are older than some of our young forwards. Mellor has done well in games I've seen him play this year. Is George injured again?

I think that Henry being on the bench means that he's likely to come on in the 2nd row, rather than as a back

Well at least we have some decent weight and size to rotate in the pack. IMHO the young lad Baldwinson will hold the key. Assuming the pack can hold its own, if during his spells he can add some impact and do some hard running and tackling, he could just be the difference.

Addy is getting some unfair stick as all he does is play wherever Franny wants and does whatever job Franny tells him. He does need Gale to have one of his good games, though. As do we.