Fages? Hope he gets some game time for sure! Although it's a shame he will come through in a side in such trouble, I hope that doesn't hinder him.

And if this French kid is any good he'll join us, as is tradition.

Team could struggle, but early in the season Salford played some nice, structured stuff in attack. Long should be able to nurture a good halfback talent fingers crossed.

Giggling like a schoolgirl after reading that, nice one.

Cas team picks its self, for the most part, we have a decent 1 to 19 for Cas then its a bit thin but i do hope the kids get a run on merit

1, Owen
2, Carney
3, Shenton
4, Webster
5, Dixon
6, Chase
7, Ellis
8, Emmet
9, Clark
10, Huby
11, Gilmore
12, Walker
13, Hauraki
14, Milner
15, Millington
16, Holmes
17, Massey
18, Tompson
19, Clare
20, Tansey
21, Nash
22, Canterbury
23, Reynolds
24, Johnston
25, Gill
26, Hammond
27, Martin
28, Fleming
29, Pick

Bradford Bulls

1 Kearney
2 Kear
3 Lulia
4 Blythe
5 Foster
6 Sammut
7 Gale
8 Manuokafoa
9 L Estrange
10 Langley
11 Whitehead
12 Olbison
13 Bateman

subs
Purtell?
Walker
Scruton
Diskin
Donaldson
Addy
O Brien
Platt? to salford
Murphy
Bailey
Rossi
Evans
Wood
Roberts
Naughton
Mason/Sidlow???

Hilarious... Despite other clubs posting squads, you pick Wigan. As for a Warrington fan judgeing "Class", priceless.... Obsessed...

he's on a 5 year deal but that counts for nought at Salford

Theo Fages is under Sean Long and he's a real prospect, his play vastly belies his age, though it might be a season too early to be thrown in deep with another rookie half back ( Marc Sneyd), more likely Long / Veivers looking for an experienced head to partner one of them. doubt whether it would be Gleeson , if he is to play for Salford it'll be Rh Centre.

as for the actual squad it all depends on the much rumoured investment/takeover happening .
then I guess it will be Veivers version of ' supermarket sweep ':- 3 overseas places - some D-C loan deals and a crop of workmenlike fringe players we can wrestle away from other clubs. A big ask to replace close to a dozen of last seasons squad, half which were our main strike players

yet another slick, organised pre-season for the Reds.

Leigh

1 Mcnally
2 Pownall
3 Gardner
4 Littler
5 Maden
6 Ridyard
7 Beswick
8 Parker
9 Penkywicz
10 Hopkins
11 Aspinwall
12 Goulden
13 Finnigan

Taylor
Brierley
Ostick
Thornley
Nicholson
Singleton
Briscoe
Higson
Duffy
Coyle

Hardly miss Finnigan,Kite or Coyle.Watts and Moore hardly played with Watts one game last year.Haggerty is ok but i feel some youngsters like Gerrard will be better players.Need look at a loan hooker and Secondrower or permanent players.

Steve Maden, now there's a blast from the past.

Warrington will be something along the lines of:

1. Brett Hodgson
2. Chris Riley
3. Chris Bridge
4. Ryan Atkins
5. Joel Monaghan
6. Lee Briers
7. Richie Myler
8. Chris Hill
9. Michael Monaghan
10. Garreth Carvell
11. Trent Waterhouse
12. Ben Westwood
13. Simon Grix

14. Mickey Higham
15. Adrian Morley
16. Ben Harrisson
17. Stefan Ratchford

Paul Wood (PR)
Mike Cooper (PR)
Tyrone McCarthy (SR)
Rhys Williams (W)
Rhys Evans (C)
Gareth O' Brien (SO)
Ben Currie (SR)
Brad Dwyer (H)
James Laithwaite (SR)
James Saltonstall (SR)
Danny Bridge (SR)
Jordan Burke (FB)
Glenn Riley (PR)
Gene Ormsby (W)
Gavin Bennion (SR)
James Mendieka (C)

We should see a lot of the youngsters getting game time this year I think.

Wakefield so far

1. Mathers
2. Fox
3. Collis
4. L Smith
5. Cockayne
6. Sykes
7. T Smith
8. Wilkes
9. Aiton
10. Raleigh
11. Lauititi
12. Kirmond
13. Washbrook
14. Wood
15. Amor
16. Poore
17. Mariano
18. John
19. Mellars
20. Trout
21. Wildie
22. Walshaw
23. Lyne
24. Cowling
25. Goulding Jr
26. Kay
27. Annekin

Expect 2 more signings, one a prop.

BRACING MYSELF

It's in my sig.

Not to bad, could do with a half.

looking at some of the squads and with more clubs squads to be announced it shows proof that we do not have the player pool to maintain a 14 team league!

despite the fact that you could make up a pretty good team from the players we were linked with/turned us down, and theres one or two spots up for grabs we will go in like this
1. mcdonnell
2. crookes
3. arundel
4. yeaman
5. briscoe
6. holdsworth
7. seymour
8. watts
9. houghton
10. lynch
11. tickle
12. ellis
13. westerman

those should be the main numbers (ellis and tickle may swap numbers). then a pretty decent back up with most likely starters listed first

galea
heremaia
o meley
johnson
green
horne
pitts
whiting
crooks
lineham
kent
nicklas
cunningham

then 4 newcomers from the academy
starling
shaul
wilson
hadley

looks like a squad with a bit of strength in depth this time out but as sheldon says probably lacking one more halfback (and possibly a centre) - last 4 probably in for the future, but you never know, if gentle thinks you are good enough you are in

In certain positions is agree, but the clubs spending the full cap have good quality as back up that could be starting for lower clubs. Especially in the forwards.

I also reckon Jason Crookes will start on the wing, but Lineham has already proved that he will become a better player and will be the next best thing at Hull FC. The kid looks brilliant.

I'd be disappointed if Crookes gets picked over Lineham. I think Tom, even though only in a handful of games, really showed some good signs. The strength/pace wed have on the wing with Briscoe and Lineham would be amazing.
To be fair though, I haven't seen a great deal of Crookes, but from what I have seen I rate Lineham higher.

Is Hull not a hot bead for RL, i thought it was, but looking at the team sheet there dose not seem to be a lot of Hull born players in the first 17

thats another thread in its own right - adam pearson is addressing this plus one or two other 'slight problems' that developed under the previous regime

fare enough, i was just looking through the lists

Eleven Hull born players in that list and another three how came through our ranks. Albeit four of the Hull born players have just been promoted to the first team, but it's still early days with our new board in charge.
This is one of many things that Pearson is planning on changing. He's adamant to bring through more youth/Hull born lads.

Think most of the savvy chairmen are realising now that the future is definitely in home grown talent. Fair play to Pearson at Hull for getting to work on sorting it out so quickly.