Squad for Sunday:
Mitch Allgood
Tinirau Arona
Joe Arundel
Matty Ashurst
James Batchelor
Mason Caton-Brown
Jordan Crowther
Liam Finn
Scott Grix
Keegan Hirst
Craig Huby
Tom Johnstone
Ben Jones-Bishop
Danny Kirmond
Reece Lyne
Jacob Miller
Mikey Sio
Bill Tupou
Anthony Walker
Sam Williams
Kyle Wood

Pretty strong team there.

Our friends on the Cas forum think they are going to win easily. I think it will be a good measure for us. It will show where we are in preparation as we beat Leeds last year but Cas still hammered us.
Let's see what preseason and new signings have done for us.

My starting 13 would be

1 Scott Grix
2 Tom Johnstone
3 Bill Tupou
4 Reece Lyne
5 Ben Jones-Bishop
6 Jacob Miller
7 Sam Williams
8 Craig Huby
9 Kyle Wood
10 Mitch Allgood
11 Matty Ashurst
12 Danny Kirmond
13 Mikey Sio

14 Liam Finn
15 Tinirau Arona
16 Keegan Hirst
17 Anthony Walker
18 Mason Caton-Brown
19 Joe Arundel
20 James Batchelor
21 Jordan Crowther

I'd be happy with that
I'd probably swap Arundel for Tupou and MCB for BJB at half-time as I think they are the positions that are still a bit up in the air.

Cas friendly? No such thing. Hopefully with JK back we'll have some fire in our bellies this time and rip their spleens out.

Not so sure about that after seeing both squads.

You appear to only have 1 or 2 kids playing compared to our 9. We are also playing without 10 first teamers:
Hardaker
Shenton
Chase
Millington
Milner
Mcmeeken
Holmes
Jesse Sene-Lefao
Massey
Patrick

Have you guys got any first teamers missing?

Should be a good game and a stern test for us with you being 10 point favorites in my eyes.

Fafita is still out, not sure on others.

Jowitt missing too still.

Fwiw I fancy Wakefield to win by 12-18 points. Think it's an experimental Cas side , think we will go full throttle for the Saints game. Wakefield won't be mugs this year and I fancy you to be better then last year and more consistent too.

Gibson also missing

It's ok saying these first teamers are missing but if they are that important, where are you playing
Eden
Monaghan
Webster
Minikin
Roberts
Gale
Maher
McShane
Lynch
Cook
Springer
Moors

Surely they are all first teamers as well. You can only play 17.

Maher will be running up the slope at Mount Pleasant once the season gets going. Jury still out on chase or roberts at 6. Monners probably won't be first choice, Eden on the wing.

Fafita and England missing is most of the "grunt" from our pack.
We have plenty of other forward options but you would expect most "go forward" from these two.

Gibson
Jowitt
Fifita
England

where ?

its dead mans gulch in the cas forum, one post a week and tumbleweed, waa n me a*rse they are...

No there own one, not the one on this site mate.
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Molloy missing aswel

I think the point was that out of both respective 21 man squads, the vast majority of yours will make up your teams across the SL season. A significant amount of ours are kids and probably won't get a game unless serious injuries occur a la last year.

Wakey will probably win and a good opportunity for Cas kids to expose themselves to first team rugby.

The only thing that tells us is that Wakefield have far greater depth to their SL squad than Cas do.

Wow, just had a read of that, what a gathering of sadsacks that place is!

That just depends on how good the kids turn out to be.
Last year a lot of the kids wouldn't have got much game time if it hadn't been for all our injuries but such as Minikin, Springer and McMeeken all established themselves as first seventeeners.
Powell says he wants to have a look at the 2 raw young London lads he has signed in this game and it will be interesting to see what he has done with them in the few weeks they have been full time. They are both very fast and strong, Egodo played for a short spell against Hull on the wing and took his try well but Powell wants to see how he goes in the centre on Sunday.

Bt you have one on here that trumps the lot.

How do you get to that? You have named your entire first team bar a couple of players but our team isn't indicative of depth. Just that we are rotating the team.

We have named a strong starting 13 but missing around 10 first teamers. I think both squads have similar amounts of depth in numbers.

I don't see anything on the Cas site to cause any vitriol... bar a couple of posts... which to be honest are tame compared to some of the stuff I read on here!

The way I see it is that we have named a 21 man outfit from entirely within our first team squad (all of whom can genuinely stake a claim for a place in our fist choice starting line up) and yet we still have 5 or so who are not named who can similarly make that claim... and at least two will be in the starting 17 for our first league fixture in February!

That's a fantastic position to be in

I see the cas line up as similar to that Leeds put out against us. .... worthy of respect but by no means full strength

Why don't you stop posting then?

There is only one player in their squad for sunday that is a "kid" i think ( mclelland?) . All the rest are first team squad members.