So Bowden and taufa in for evans and butler

As there are only 2 wingers in squad taufa and Murphy guess we are going with hall and one of batch Croft or Gaskell in centres

Looks a strong squad.

Hopefully Bowes or Walker on the bench as interchange for Hood . Please not Crowther he is a hard worker but not a 9 .

It's going to be very hot.
So young fit players and ball control is needed.

If we can we should try and wear the magic kit aswell, keep away from that black away kit

Feel for evans he dine nothing wrong other than work hard

There's a photograph, on WT facebook page, of Jorge training in a hat and coat, if he was that cold I could have lent him my scarf and gloves

This is WP. A player does well so I'll drop him, there is no consistency to his selection policy.

I'm sorry but the bloke just hasn't got the vision for me.

The only plus is Brad Walker for Lino.

Walker played well last week and seems to fit better with Miller. He's a much better game organiser than either Miller or Lino.

Sadly if we win and Walker plays well he will instantly be dropped for Lino even if the guy is still on one leg. It's tragic.

Lino is in the squad this week isn't he?

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Agreed .. a strange decision unless he's injured.

The Hull KR squad announced looks pretty good in the backs to me. No shortage of nippy guys to run us ragged!

1. Coote
2. Crookes
4. SKD
5. Hall
9. Parcell
10. King
11. Hadley
14. Litten
16. Sims
17. Minchella
18. Keinhorst
19. Dagger
20. Lewis
21. Milnes
22. Maher
23. Ryan
24. Wood
25. Richards
28. Tate
34. Fishwick
35. Royle

It's a bit tough on Evans but loads commented on his rawness. And also moan about playing players out of position.

He's choosing to play an NRL winger, on the wing. Can't see why that looks bad on Willie
Who he plays in the centre is a dilemma. For all the praise of Batch, and well deserved, Leeds exploited him in the centre so it's not like he's a perfect fit.
Croft is a young kid trying his best after injury and playing lower division. Takes time. He made a lot of yardage for us last week and the tries weren't due to him.
Also, I'm sure Gaskell will get grief if he is in the centre but it's arguably his best position.
Personally I'd rather go with one weakend position than shuffling players and making other positions weaker too.

Are you saying you'd play Walker over Lino?

And on Croft......I'm not bidding for him to play but his defence is not bad.

Against Toulouse he attempted 18 and completed 15 which is 83%
Hall was 70% Jowitt 77% Miller 75% and Walker 84%
Evans was 50% of his 6 attempts and only Murphy got 100% but that was only 3 tackles.

Don't think Walker should play instead of Lino but there is a case for having him interchange with Hood . He has a good pair of hands ,can tackle see stats above and can offload in the tackle and has a good kicking game . Unfortunately he lacks pace which is why he isn't picked regularly.

Sounds like Lino has a fitness test tomorrow.

I imagine if he doesn’t make it Gaskell will replace him rather than Walker.

Why didn't Gaskill replace Lino last week ?

He wasn’t in the 21 man squad.

He was injured

From that squad I agree with others about playing those in their most natural position. I’d go with….

Max Jowitt
Lewis Murphy
Corey Hall
Lee Gaskell
Jorge Taufua
Jacob Miller
Mason Lino/Brad Walker
Jai Whitbread
Liam Hood
Tinirau Arona
Matty Ashurst
Jay Pitts
James Batchelor

Subs

David Fifita
Josh Bowden
Kelepi Tanginoa
Harry Bowes

So In a team that is conceding 30 plus points every week you want to play Gaskill in the centre, a man who is possibly the worst 1 on 1 tackler seen in SL history. Batch has to play centre he can defend, yes he lacks pace but we will be up against Shaun Kenny Dowell who takes a bit of handling. Gaskill would run a mile, Batch will do a better job than Croft.
It seems to me that nothing changes, since the warm up game against Fev you could see that our defence was poor, 30 plus points a match tells its own story, have we changed anything, have we brought in someone to assist with defence ? I don't know but it seems a very obvious course of action that should have happened weeks ago. I don't fancy our lot to restrict Coote and SKD to less than 30, it is obvious from the Salford and Toulouse debacles that our players neither have the skill set or the desire to defend and sadly it seems that our coaching staff seem powerless to improve the skillset or change the mindset.

Tbh our defence didn’t look anything like at Halifax

I think that Batch is needed in the pack. I agree Gaskell playing centre is not ideal but it’s his most natural position. If not Gaskell then Croft but not Batch for me….

Look at it another way, if Batch is needed in the pack, which as far as I can see is full strength. This surely suggests he is an inflential player and one of our best, so why did we not sign him for next year.

I don’t know. Maybe he had a better offer elsewhere….