We can hope

So your fine with, Guilty until proven innocent?
I doubt it would be the same result in a legal court, without the evidence of guilt.

A few injuries and a completely different left edge for last week, No Swift, Sutcliffe, Griffin, Hoy. Shaul at 1, Litten wing and Dwyer dropped. Left edge Litten, Scott, Lane, Clifford

That edge is going to struggle big time I reckon.
Glad Dwyer has been dropped as his performances have warranted it. Imagine Lovodua will jump in at 9 then? Though wouldn't be surprised to see Houghton do the full 80.

Dwyer dropped, not rested?

Don't get me wrong, Griffin was wrong to question the Kendall, even with his chain of events it still isn't the greatest way to speak to an official.

But the key element here is that their is zero evidence Griffin did in fact call Kendall a cheat. To ban a player for 2 months of action with zero evidence other than Kendall (who has history of been proven wrong in these situations) is incredibly harsh, and compounded by the fact that a couple hours earlier a player got a smaller ban for possibly the worst tackle I have seen.

Gulp

I'd suggest dropped given both his performances and also that he's actually been playing less minutes (again maybe down to his performances) so wouldn't need resting.

Absolute madness to play Shaul in front of Litten, really disappointing if true, makes zero sense if true

Should be Litten at Full Back and Barron on the wing. I can't get my head around sticking with players who have no future with us - Shaul, Dwyer, Lovodua etc

If Swift is indeed ruled out tonight I'd rather see Litten remain at FB and bring Baron in on the wing. As much as it will be a tough game I don't see any real difference in having Litten on the wing as opposed to Baron. Surely its better to progress with player who in the clubs future plans rather than ones that aren't?

Certainly think we look stronger with Litten at FB than with Shaul, either way really going to be a tough ask tonight.

Was mentioned in HDM that Barron has a minor Thumb injury, but still, even if he isn't fit i'd of rather give Martin a go and keep Litten at FB. Any slim hope I thought we had has somewhat vanished, Shaul was awful in the derby

Going to be a long night.

At least he didn't drop the C bomb. That would've added an extra couple of matches.

People mocked rovers for signing two Catalan players on loan, but maybe we'd have also been better off scouting the plan market as our backup players/ lots of academy players currently aren't up to it if we do want to try get the 6th playoff spot

Indeed as Clown really is an offensive word and would really be a question of Kendals integrity despite it being an accurate description.

Crap?

Interesting team. Reckon a loss by 20 points but hope I'm wrong and we keep competitive.

Shaul in
Litten on the wing
Lovodua in the back row
Mcnamara on the bench to cover hooker I'd imagine

My source spot on again

We can go above Leeds Tonight

Don’t understand the logic of Lovodua in 2nd row if I’m honest and would have thought Staveley on the bench would have been a better route.

Hope Shaul does better than the last time out in the first team.

Think we’ll do well to keep the score below 40 to be honest as that 17 looks so light and unbalanced.

I honestly think after the Saints, Catalans and KR game TS will start playing the odd youngster like Balmforth, Staveley, Barron, Gardner and Laidlaw