I'm fed up with all the doom and gloom on here. I really think our lads will raise their game and lose by only 30 points.

I have a fairly low expectation and will just be happy to score once.

Cricky Wires 1/16 on where 7/1. Wow never known odds like that. As most have said let's have a dig and get a score on the board. Looking forward to seeing how the youngster's go. Nothing to lose.

what is wrong with this club of ours?we go from one crisis to another.we are one of the top clubs with a great fanbase,but the way we seem to be run is all wrong .we have a chairman who seems to have lost touch with the fans and an head coach who is far to laid back in situations like this.the whole club seems flat to me.

Club apologist

Nothing wrong with positive spin. Lets face it no other club does it better than us

Sadly it was only 2 SL games ago.

2 bookies have got us at 11-1 to beat Warrington. London are shorter odds to beat Catalans

Tony Smith has named his 21-man squad ahead of Friday’s Betfred Super League Round Two clash against Warrington Wolves, in association with Jadan Press.
With the Black & Whites possessing a significant list of injuries and suspensions, with at least 14 first-team players unavailable for the fixture, Smith has named a young squad for the trip to the Halliwell Jones Stadium.

Seven changes have been made to the squad that was named ahead of last week’s Round One fixture, with Harvey Barron, Denive Balmforth, Matty Laidlaw, Jeylan Hodgson, Lennon Bursell, and Macca Harman all called into the squad, while Charlie Severs has also been named having been recalled from his loan spell at Betfred Championship side York Knights.

The seven incoming players replace Herman Ese’ese, Franklin Pele and Ligi Sao, all of whom drop out through suspension, as well as Danny Houghton through head injury protocols, Joe Cator through a hamstring tear, and Cam Scott through a calf issue – Zach Jebson also drops out of the squad.

Liam Tindall, (thumb), Carlos Tuimavave (calf), and Brad Fash (ankle), all of whom missed Round One, remain unavailable, while Jake Trueman (Achilles), Mitieli Vulikijapani (knee), Kye Armstrong (shoulder), and Cobie Wainhouse (knee) continue their recovery from longer-term issues.


The full 21-man squad can be found below:

1 – Tex Hoy
4 – Liam Sutcliffe
5 – Darnell McIntosh
7 – Fa’amanu Brown
11 – Jayden Okunbor
15 – Jordan Lane
16 – Jack Ashworth
19 – Morgan Smith
20 – Jack Brown
21 – Will Gardiner
23 – Davy Litten
24 – Nick Staveley
25 – Harvey Barron
26 – Lewis Martin
28 – Denive Balmforth
29 – Charlie Severs
30 – Matty Laidlaw
31 – Jack Walker
33 – Macca Harman
35 – Jeylan Hodgson
38 – Lennon Bursell

All I can ask for is a commited display with less dumb errors, its a good chance for some of our young players to make a name for themselves and potentially oust some of our underperforming 1st teamers in weeks to come

Bottom three and Barron drop out for me, every other player played first team so hopefully a chance to shine.

Hope their mams and dads have got the packed lunches ready, leaving school early as well.

Cmon boys we’ve got our travel booked.

That must be one the worst 21s named by any side

Would agree with that. Probably line up something like

Walker
McIntosh
Litten
Sutcliffe
Martin
Hoy
Smith
Ashworth
F Brown
Gardiner
Okunbor
Lane/Staveley
Staveley/Lane

J Brown
Balmforth
Severs
Laidlaw

May as well treat it as a friendly, take the pressure off the everyone and try and iron out the basic errors and work to a simple game plan that we have some chance of fulfilling and use it as a starting point. No trying to offload on tackle 2 on our own 20 or tackle one on their 20. Try and get into the grind, when we concede a try just start again and try and build some sort of platform to move forward on in the forthcoming games. Try and do that for 80 minutes with maximum effort and hopefully the scoreboard won't go ballistic and we can move onto next week with at least an air of positivity/promise.

That would be my side would have Staverley at 13, think he is more of a middle than Lane.

Got to be a concern for Damel Diakhate not getting in that squad, wasn't mentioned as injured was he?

Keep the score down time seems the most likely hope we can have for me.

In round 2, what a time to be alive

Those squad numbers



Going to be a long night. As others have said, just got to aim for a committed display and see it as good experience.

Hope Morgan Smith and Brown have just been practicing booting it as far down the pitch (but not too far that we give away a 7 tackle set) as they can all week, keep them away from our line all game and defend like it's a knock out game and we might keep it respectable

I think even the most ardent fan would struggle to be optimistic about this game.
Even with a full strength team I wouldn't see anything other than a loss.
Like the team my enthusiasm and passion for the season had disappeared by half time against Rovers.

Score prediction?

I predict we will score (so long as it's not raining).

I'll actually watch with interest. The only salvageable silver lining is hopefully a good look at some of the younger players. I'd expect us, at best, to stay within 30.

Almost had a brief moment of optimism when I saw on my news feed that Hull are in talks with Hargreaves. Alas, it's t'other lot.

Not keen on 36 year old imports. It just gave me a moment of de-javu to the days we linked ourselves with eminent antipodeans.

Well nobody has mentioned the term yet, so here goes surely this game is a 'free hit'



I do think we should probably view the game to right some wrongs from last Thursday in terms of simply getting our basics and organisation right and also giving the fringe players game time and SL experience and score at least one try.
Anything after that is a bonus

I hope they do – terrible signing. Another 'Big Willie'.