The squad in full is:

1 Matt Blaymire
3 Aaron Murphy
4 Daryl Millard
5 Luke George
7 Sam Obst
8 Michael Korkidas
9 Julien Rinaldi
10 Paul King
11 Kevin Henderson
12 Dale Ferguson
13 Glenn Morrison
14 Tommy Lee
17 Paul Johnson
18 Chris Dean
21 Frankie Mariano
22 Stuart Howarth
23 Josh Veivers
27 Kieran Hyde
28 Russ Spiers

No ben jefferies and No Kevin Penny ???

Shoudn't it be a 20 man squad, then trimmed to 18. If so, then i'd imagine Ben Jeffries has been left out by mistakes as there is only 19 names there.

Always been a 19 man squad I thought.

Yeah, i'm having the start of the season blues

Some serious problems at half as well as in the front row! Whos you bet for 6 and 7? Suppose its Hyde and Obst. Thought Wilde might of been in with shout with BJ out.

Whats wrong with Jeremy Smith and Motu Tony for your lot, I would have thought they would have made your squad but then again I would have thought Jeffries would too.

Toss up between Veivers and Blaymire for FB, is Spiers a prop, if so, he could make the 17 otherwise it two specialist props and Johnson, who by all accounts has done very well but is classed as a second row/centre on the club website.

Smith doesn't have his visa yet, Tony is injured. God know whats up with BJ!

Smith hasn't got a Visa and Tony broke his arm.

Smith - work permit
Tony - injured
BJ - Injured/sold to catalans, presumably???

Oh right I thought he had got the visa thing sorted, whats wrong with Tony then.

Thats probably the strongest I could come up from that 19.

1 Matt Blaymire

3 Aaron Murphy
18 Chris Dean
4 Daryl Millard
5 Luke George

27 Kieran Hyde
7 Sam Obst

8 Michael Korkidas
9 Julien Rinaldi
10 Paul King

11 Kevin Henderson
12 Dale Ferguson
13 Glenn Morrison

14 Tommy Lee
17 Paul Johnson
21 Frankie Mariano
28 Russ Spiers

Tomorrow can't come quick enough can it looking at that? it really is awful when we're down to the bare bones in week 1. Millennium Tragic.

Tony is out for a few weeks with a broken hand I think. Kear said he was hopeful of Smith getting his visa for this weekend, but that doesn't appear to of happened.

Shame then for you that with Tony, Very good player when fit but the last couple of years it just seems to have been one injury after another with him. Bit too bigger risk to take with him really especially when you dont really have a big enough squad to carry him.

Whats up with Jeffries & Penny??? Sorry but with that line up I can't see us getting anything other than a battering.

Sorry Tigerman! i'm trying to purge myself of smiley faces on the end of all posts (i'm practicing for lent) so other posters must try and determine themselves, my irony/sarcasm level. you clearly failed!

He's on a play as you play contract so the club are not 'carrying' him as such.

penny and BJ

Have been garbage so far... not a surprise really,

Might give ben n kevin a kick up the arris.

23 Josh Vievers
3 Aaron Murphy
18 Chris Dean
4 Daryl Millard
5 Luke George

27 Kieran Hyde
7 Sam Obst

8 Michael Korkidas
9 Julien Rinaldi
17 Paul Johnson

21 Frankie Mariano
12 Dale Ferguson
13 Glenn Morrison

14 Tommy Lee
10 Paul King
22 Stuart Howarth
11 Kevin Henderson

Matt Blaymire
Russ Spiers

Harsh on Blaymire maybe but we need Vievers' goalkicking even more now Jeffries is out. Wouldn't blood Spiers just yet, maybe a couple of games into the season when the glare isn't quite as big. The rest pretty much picks itself really.

No Jeffries, Kieron Hyde starts at No.6, Russ Spiers starts in the 17 as well.

It's gonna be a long hard season!!
Can see me spending pretty much all of the Cas game in a bar.Cheap ticket anyone?

and there I was looking at the squad and thinking did not look bad we have a chance. Its not as if Cas are exactly Queensland !

Didn't look bad? it's full of no names and Championship quality players! Cas might not be Queensland but they have SL quality players across the board with a couple of internationals sprinkled in