With no news flowing from the club it is possible Sunday's line-up will be:

Walker

Ulberg
Hoyes
Bassett
Macani

O Leyland
Horsman

Williams
Davis
Stock
Lovell
Natoli
Parata

B Leyland
Howorth
Allen
Monk or Parke

That is assuming:
- Silva, Hill and Eckersley don't extend their loans
- Raiwalui still can't be found
- Waine remains in transit
- Albert is injured from the Sheffield match
- Grant isn't quite ready
- Bienek is injured
- No other players are recruited

We could really do with those loans being extended.

Tomorrows 21 will be interesting. You can only "hide" so many unavailable players in there.

Looking pretty bleak. Not expecting good news on the loanees personally. Pretty sure the club would have put something out if they had been extended as an 'easy win' good news story.

Smiffy99, have AFC reserves got any big lumps we could borrow?

Can't make Keighly, but will probably get along to the reserves game against Hull FC on Saturday afternoon. Jude Ferreira named in the matchday squad for FC. I know opinions on him were fairly mixed last season, so interested to see how he goes.

Similar issue unfortunately.

Seven days ago the manager announced "Everyone has trained this week, so it remains a selection headache for me!". A day later the team played at Gillingham a substitute short (6 rather than 7) due to lack of availability. By Tuesday there was discussion of some U18 call-ups.

Tuesday evening at home to Stevenage down to 5 substitutes with a player going off first half with a hamstring issue. Manager now saying we are down to the bare bones.

U18's are away tomorrow. A 30 plus year old won't be playing four days after even a minor hamstring issue. So unless some U18's are pulled from their match, our starting position is 4 substitutes. May go up if some of the minor injuries recover, or down if there are more injuries!

All of the what would be classed as Reserves are out on loan, and in most cases can't be recalled (until outside a 28 day period that some of the loans are for).

So no lumps (or any sizes) not available. More likely AFC Wimbledon needing Oli Leyland for penalty taking experience!

RFL have Abbas Miski in our 21 man squad. https://www.rugby-league.com/match-cent ... ew/2242751

RFL have Abbas Miski in our 21 man squad. https://www.rugby-league.com/match-cent ... ew/2242751

Pleased to hear that. He struck me as a decent fella who wanted to do well. Things didn’t go as planned on the field but to be fair the team as a whole was a shambles so I hope he can impress for Hull.

Genuinely feels like the club is run by volunteers. If someone gets ill or has an emergency at work, jobs x,y,z don’t get done. Everyone understands. A semi-professional sports club with big aspirations:less so. Really, really confusing.

Quote ="jbuzza"RFL have Abbas Miski in our 21 man squad. https://www.rugby-league.com/match-cent ... ew/2242751'" Ok so our plan for navigating a better season is to rely on Wigan. There are worse plans but I can’t believe this is in any way ‘the plan’ . Otherwise the whole management structure at LB must be on magic mushrooms.what a crazy way to go about our business. End of the pier stuff.

Quote ="jbuzza"RFL have Abbas Miski in our 21 man squad. https://www.rugby-league.com/match-cent ... ew/2242751'" Ok so our plan for navigating a better season is to rely on Wigan. There are worse plans but I can’t believe this is in any way ‘the plan’ . Otherwise the whole management structure at LB must be on magic mushrooms.what a crazy way to go about our business. End of the pier stuff.

I know FC had a big wraps on him when he was coming through the Academy, just never seemed to kick on to that top level. I thought FC had released him tbh but like you say, hope he gets back on track.

Worth saying here as well that there is a reserve game tomorrow in Richmond, probably one of only a handful all year and the website is still majoring in the Gold Lounge: radio silence on the match. Very, very odd way to go about their business. I assume we’ll see on the Keighley website what our line up is for Sunday’s match.

The performances of Henry Raiwalui and Emmanuel Waine were a bit disappointing in February !

We're not a rugby league club any more; we're a Gold Lounge.

Squad has been announced with Miski and two Wigan lads are in. Even has photos of players. Pretty soon theylll be on the website to join the full ‘sponsors’ list that has finally been updated. Looks like we’re all ready for the season to start ...oh hold on. @what a shambles.

And even that is debatable as the plaque on the door to the room that the Broncos are I believe using for Gold Hospitality is actually the Platinum Lounge. The room named the Gold Lounge is the Broncos Bar.

Yes I thought start of last season quite a few of our players were anonymous but they’ve taken it to a new level.

Any old iron! No wonder the discounts are coming thick and fast.

No Silva though which is a real shame. He's gone well for us and offers some much needed forward depth. Guess we have no way of knowing if its unavailability through injury or whether he has gone back to Wigan. They sent Shorrocks out on loan earlier in the week, so they appear OK for forwards, hopefully we see him back

Yes on the face of it he seems a good fit for loan. However only so far we can paper over our recruitment failings.

The numbers don't make pretty reading. We may be about to play our fourth loan of the season. In contrast we have played just three new permanent faces this season; Bassett, Natoli and Stock. That's the grand total of the successful recruitment.

On 1st November Eccles said "“We’re close to striking deals with several players currently playing in the World Cup, We’re hopeful we’ll be in a position to have those names announced in December.”

On 10th January: Eccles expressed the importance of recruiting the correct calibre of player, adding that he will not be rushed into signing players simply to make up the numbers. Conversations are being held daily and he hopes to confirm some new recruits later this month. “We’re having conversations every day,” said Eccles. “We did miss out on a few names, but we’re making progress on bringing in some more bodies."

Since mid October there has been =#FF0000ONE new signing that has made the team; Ethan Natoli. That's three and a half months. Most of the off season plus the first month of the new season. It's fair to say they certainly haven't "rushed into signing players" !

I suspect for the stats they would say Davis, who we lost to York, through our 2021/2 retention failings, and then came back and Walker, who had a go at SL then Championship up North, and then came back are ‘new’ signings. On that PR spin the efforts don’t look so bad. In reality an absolute failure. All this means we need to have an early, cogent retention policy in place so we can at least finish 9-12 next year. My take on it is for most of these PT players staying in London makes more sense than leaving for sunny Widnes or Bradford. But that would have been the case in 21/22 so clearly our approach/offers or general club ‘culture’ led many to roll the dice. It remains to be seen where we are compared to that situation. Eccles certainly seems to have clarity of thought and isn’t afraid to be ruthless, but as others have pointed out, the much vaunted support doesn’t appear to be there. I saw him on the pitch with the players v Sheffield but didn’t see any other coaches. On the touch line I see the lady medic but not really anyone else. It looks to me like it’s a one man band.

Miski’s great but who does he replace? Ulberg is probably our best player so it must be the other winger who has made so little an impression on me this year I don’t know who it is. Is it Macani. If so does Macani play in a other position? Is Miski a better defender than Macani ....can anyone remember. Our recruitment doesn’t seem to be following the logical pattern of identifying a weakness or gap because of injury but just taking anyone who is half decent. We could end up with a team of 13 props by that metric. It’s mid table standard playmakers and someone who can kick well that we need to step up. Anyway interesting game this. This is the type of game we need to win to stay clear of L1.

Could be 2007, could be 2023.....who knows?

With Brain McDermott we almost had a squad of second row forwards!

Not sure it's a "must win" game though it's certainly a "could do with winning" game. Big spending Keighley were expected to hit the ground running but seem to have landed with a thud and a whimper. Defence suspect an echelon up.

All the Best today!