What's the story with injuries?
Nero didn't come back on did he?
I didn't notice that Lynch had gone off and not returned. We could be running well short of players if those two are out as well.

im sure our young stars will fill the voids given the chance

Depending on how Lynch goes maybe an idea to get James back from fax

we have to give 48 hrs notice so we'd have to make a decision in next hour or two. James hasnt looked that good for us this year (although he's doing well for fax) so i'd be tempted to leave him at fax and give crossley a try if lynch doesnt make it.

Please don't call him back!

Would hardly be fair on him or Fax if we did, IMO.

Is Sol back for Wakey? If so, gives us another body in the pack with Crookes (good game) to replace Nero? And hope that Wakey are a bit battered too.

i think well be ok with the injury situation tbh. Think burgess should kick for goal against wakey, sykes wasnt great.

think sykes needs to spend weekend practising his kicking to get his eye back in, tbf he hasnt been asked to kick regularly for a few years. Is there anyone else in squad who can kick aprt from burgess? has menzies done it the past?

not sure about menzies but id give burgess a shot . Can halley?

What's up with Nero? Anyone know?
Looks like Lynch will be ok for Monday.

On Sky it said it was his shoulder and out of him and Lynch he was the most likely to return in the game.

Earwigging at the Acadamy game I heard Sam saying that both Nero and Lynch were very doubtful for Mondays game.

seems very strange that we havent recalled james or put crossley in 19 man squad if lynch is a serious doubt.

James would be a harsh one to recall, had we had a week and recalled him straight after a game then ok but a few days when Halifax have prepared around having them in their team its a very harsh thing to do.

agree entirely and glad we let fax keep him, but if lynch is serious doubt you'd have thought we'd have put crossley on squad. Looking at squad it suggests if lynch pulls out then burgess will go back into props and one of olbison/donaldson will get a go in 2nd row, which would be a shame as imo burgess is much more effective at lf/2nd row and clearly played better there on friday.

Could easily put Langley at prop, Menzies at second row and Burgess at Loose with Sykes going into half back and working the team around that.

no nero so menzies/sykes has to play one of the spots with crookes taking the other. personally i'd stick with sykes at s/o and menzies at as he played senior out of the game their on friday.

I suspect they'll rotate but at some stage we have to think about managing Menzies workload. Given our injury situation he has to play, but a game at centremight be a good compromise.

Same

With respect Bradford's priorities should be about Bradford. If they need him I wouldn't be worrying about Halifax, he is our player and Halifax knew the deal when they took him out on loan.

I disagree he got more involved and had more impact when he was proping on Friday.