Tough game, particularly with Sam T coming back and potential for the new prop they have signed to play, but fancy us to give them a game, Litten out, buy Carlos and Chan bsvk, maybe Fash too, sounds like Moy might not be ready.

Walker
Martin
Sutcliffe
Carlos
Briscoe
Trueman
Charles
Sao
Smith
Ese ese
Chamberlain
Lane
Aydin

Fash/Gardiner
King V
Chan
Balmforth

stronger bench if chan and fash play. Presume chan is OK but fash had a neck injury so may not make it

Looking forward to it, my first time going to Catalan

Forecast is 30C for Saturday evening in Perpignan.

we should buy a couple of pizzas pre game and drop them around the pitch to distract abdul

Looks good to me Dave. Be good to get Cust in if we can.

Chamberlain centre, Sao will probably go 2nd row and Fash start as can't see Carlos playing hope I'm wrong

Grix said Carlos was fine for Wigan, but rewarded Litten for his 2nd half against Rovers

I hope not, just doesn't seem nearly as effective there. I'd rather play Jebson or someone like that than move Sao from prop.

i agree Sao is a front row leave him there

Sao has been excellent the last few weeks, seems to have improved his discipline and cut out his mistakes, I was all for getting rid, but I'd definitely keep him now.

not just Sao who has improved his discipline
team discipline was a huge factor in our win against Wigan.
lets hope it continues

We are 6/1 to win ?
Evens with 14.5 start

That’s incredible after we just beat Wigan

I’ve had a small flutter

I don’t encourage gambling but I find it weird we get 14.5 start at evens when we haven’t lost by that much recently

Come on FC

Totally agree and that credit must go to the coaching staff and particularly Myler, he stuck with Grix, when many fans (including me) wanted him out after the London game, brought back Ellis and brought in new players to improve us on and off the field.

You can’t praise Myler mate…it’s not the done thing…il give Grix his due,he has improved them a lot and bringing back Ellis was arguably his best decision.

Anybody else think that with the hype surrounding the return of Sam,it may play into our hands a bit or he will inspire the buggers and they play well.

No Chan in the squad, which is interesting, to be honest he has done OK, but I wouldn't have him in our strongest 17.

Don't know how long he's been planning his return . If it's a recent decision , He could be blowing out his ar$e after 10 mins .
There's training and then there's match fitness .

Good point mate…I work with a ex fc player and I asked him about his hardest game,this a bloke who had trained with the players day in day out…and he played in the rich horne drop gaol at Wigan game and he said he was blowing out of his arris after 10mins and that was with full training

100% agree.. would be in favour, giving him an extension, if can get him off the quota.

tomkins will probably have a worldie and will give the rest of the team a lift irrespective of how well he plays

No Johnstone, Abdull or McMeekan but Fages and Tomkins back, I'd imagine Sam start off the bench like you say he won't be match fit.

Even if he remains on quota I would be in favour of an extension. He's already here, settled and playing well. We could sign someone who can't adjust over here and turn out to be another Kane Evans perish the thought.

Think we might have Moy/Jebson on bench ahead of Gardiner purely in case Carlos break down. Chamberlain could slot into centre.

Walker
Martin
Sutcliffe
Carlos
Briscoe
Trueman
Charles
Sao
Smith
Ese ese
Chamberlain
Lane
Aydin

Fash
King V
Moy or Jebson
Balmforth

abdul missing is a blow for us