4 Ryan Atkins; 9 Daryl Clark; 32 Jordan Cox; 11 Ben Currie; 3 Rhys Evans; 1 Kurt Gidley; 8 Chris Hill; 12 Jack Hughes; 28 Jack Johnson; 29 Benjamin Jullien; 18 George King; 2 Tom Lineham; 20 Kevin Penny; 6 Stefan Ratchford; 5 Matty Russell; 10 Ashton Sims; 14 Joe Westerman; 13 Ben Westwood; 27 Sam Wilde

So Lineham makes the 19.

He must have impressed in training then - because Mr Smith didn't sound too happy about his half heated display in the reserves.

Or Evans or Penny are carrying a knock.

Instead of buggering around with players in different positions I suspect we will see some reversion to the norm. So;

Evans back to centre
Hughes back to BR
Lineham back to wing ( I don't think it was "poor form" last week, I suspect it was "poor attitude" that put him on the naughty step)
Currie or Jullien to centre

Johnson and Wilde to miss out.

Anyway, that's my guess.

Sounds like TS is covering all bases, must be a couple of doubts in the backs

If everyone makes it i still think Lineham will be at Rochdale at weekend

Lineham & Wilde to miss out

Would the inclusion of Johnson give TS the choice of using Russell as interchange hooker to give Clark a breather. Russell can be good scooting from dummy half.

Has he got the stamina to do the required tackling though?

I would have thought that if Johnson plays he will either go to FB with Russell to the wing, or directly to the wing. In both instances Lineham would be sightseeing in Rochdale. As Silver points out Clark does an awful lot of work in defence and is an excellent tackler. We wouldn't get that from Russell and I suspect he is more likely to get injured as well. Certainly I would be directing the forward traffic directly at him if I was Betts.

Even Johnson off the bench & move Russell upfield.

I've had my tuppence worth of moaning so now as I'm over it and remembering the players hurt a lot more than I do after a defeat I will back them to step up with a close win, we are where we are regarding the halves and a lot is on the shoulders of Ratchford and Gidley but they have enough in them to get it together, let's hope they are somewhere near full fitness.

if all else fails we can blame the plastic pitch

Plenty about that in the guardian today from our tony.

Johnson wing, Evans centre, Currie back to SR. Cox back on bench. Lineham wand Wilde gone....

hughes back to second row you mean



interesting johnson on the wing, i don't mind that though, many a good fullback has been introduced via the wing.

and that

He'd be great scooting from dummy half. But he can't pass a ball.

It hasnt stopped Mcilorum