Whiting
Sharp
Martin
Turner
Briscoe
Horne(rumoured to be out) or Ellis
Seymour
Lynch
Houghton
Bowden
Manu
Tickle
Aspinwall
Subs
O'Carroll
Green
Yeaman or Ellis
Nicklas

Moa's mum is very badly flown back to Australia.

Heremaia is having surgery on his neck out for a few months.

Hasn't he been back in full contact training recently and was involved in the warm-up against Cas?

Or has his injury worsened?

This squad is very inexperianced and looks vunerable to me in light of this weeks events at Bradford, who I expect to be fired up both on and off the field come Friday. Moving forward into easter I'm a little worried, if we get any more injuries then we are going to stretched to the limit.

In fact with Moa away and Ogre missing along with the others I'd say we won't win any of the next three, Bulls, Rovers or Hudds. Our front row won't be able to cope imo.

See Heremaia thread for link.

Going to be tough going over the next few games.Should still have enough to see off Bradford.

O'Carroll, Lynch can do 80, Bowden getting better and Aspinwall can spell with Green I think we will be fine but need need Moa and McKinnon back for good friday.

How about:

Horne
Sharp
Martin
Turner
Briscoe
Ellis
Seymour
Lynch
Houghton
Tickle
Yeaman
Manu
Whiting

Aspinwall
O'Carroll
Bowden
Green

Bradford still have a lot more players than us out, so we should still win IMO, going to be tough though and they will be fired up.

Rovers and Hudds x2 will be very difficult if we are missing our 2 props and Wade.

O Carroll in particular needs to step up to the plate. Not sure about him doing 80 he could barely walk after doing stints in the Widnes game not sure his back is 100% to be honest.

I doubt Yeaman will play on Friday.

Rather have Turner in the back row, Yeaman is too small.

I'd use Aspiwall as our 4th prop, do a decent job early in the season.

Horne to FB.

Ellis to 6.

Whiting LF.

Not sure about Yeaman though.

Not likely Steve, EO has never done the full 80. We also risk burning out Lynch with easter the following week.

I'd have exactly the same as you.

As for Yeaman, if he's fit then slot him in in his usual left centre position, with Turner on the bench. If Yeaman isn't fit, I'd play Turner in the centres and bring Kent onto the bench.

I'm thinking a bench of Aspinwall, Bowden, Green, Turner.
This gives us 4 players able to play in the forwards, but Turner has the utility value of being able to play in the centres or give Houghton a breather (Turner to 6, Ellis to 9 for a short spell).

Imeant Lynch the 80 not O'Carroll he would struggle.

Had a re-think, assuming Yeaman is not fit to play.

Horne
Sharp
Martin
Turner
Briscoe
Ellis
Seymour
Lynch
Houghton
Aspinwall
Manu
Tickle
Whiting

Bowden
O'Carroll
Kent
Green

First big test of Gentle's team selections but I'm confident he will put a side together to get the job done.

Another way to look at it is that if Bradford's troubles are as bad as they this game might be irrelevant. All their games could be made void.

Sincerely hope the Horne rumour isn't true otherwise we're screwed. Lyn to fullback?

Looked at Bradford's squad Jeffries out too, still fancy us.

I wouldn't have thought so, he isn't even able to get the fullback spot in the 20's. Would be tricky if Horne is out. Moving Whiting to fullback would leave us weak/inexperienced in the forwards.

We'd have to hope that Yeaman would be fit so that Turner could play either at Loose or at FB (if Horne is out).

Guy on the Bulls forum has put this as his likely lineup for them:

Kearney
Pryce
Purtell
Lulia
Crookes
Addy
Sammut
MnM
Diskin
Hargreaves
Elima
Whitehead
Bateman

Langley
L'Estrange
Burgess
Joseph

Horne
Sharp
Martin
Turner
Briscoe
Ellis
Seymour
Lynch
Houghton
Aspinwall
Manu
Tickle
Whiting

Nicklas
Bowden
O'Carroll
Green

Their pack will dominate I feel.

After the Cas game I thought Gentle might play Whiting at full back for this one, but with Moa and O'Meley missing, I'd say he has to keep Whiting in the forwards.

Hope Horne isn't out, or things start to look very dodgy indeed.