Important game on Friday, one as a top 4 team we should be looking for a comfy home win against them.

O Meley and Briscoe out but the team should really pick itself.

Tansey
Hall
Yeaman
Turner
Whiting
Washy
Long
Dowes
Houghton
Radford
Manu
Tickle
Fitz

Moa
Lauaki if fit (Burnett)
Cusack
Berrigan

If Houghton is playing we could bring Berrigan on at centre, stand off or LF.

Could go joint 3rd with saints if we win, and there injury hit team get beat by Hudds.

Win and Wakey lose to Wigan then that will put us 8 points above 9th position and more or less guarantee us a play off place.

I like the look of those 2 scenarios!

Cant see many of us coming to the game, most who travel to away games on the train certainly wont be doing so this week anyway as there are no trains back home, although there is a few hardcore fans staying over!



cant wait for friday, i like coming to the KC just hope there is a close game for us all to enjoy!

see you friday

Are we unbeaten since the Webster joined our coaching team FT?

I know Houghton played well last game but if would be better served coming off the bench and letting Berro start the game tbh. Also what if Horne is back? Does Washy miss out?

Is Horne back, guess we might find out later today, I would give him another weeks rest, bring him back for Hudds away.

Houghton needs to start, he is our best hooker at the moment and deserves to start after his recent performances, have ing Berrigan on the bench means that he can cover a number of positions if needed.

Personally I would start Berrigan at centre and have Turner on the bench, cant see that happening though.

i think even without O'Meley and Briscoe the squad looks fairly strong. i would prefer to see Tuffour on the wing instead of Hall personally. he's been playing regular 1st team rugby (even if it's not super league) and could do with some 1st team action for us. i've never seen him play though so someone correct me if this is a stupid statement.

Not sure where all this 'Berro to centre' stuff comes from tbh. He has lost the extra yard of pace he used to have and would be wasted in the centres imo. Realistically the only position that would need covering would be hooker and Houghton is a far better option off the bench than Berro is so I would go with Houghton off the bench.

cant see Horne being back.

Id keep Houghton at 9 and play Berro at 6

me neither but should be for the week after so someone will miss out if we don't pick anymore injuries.

I was thinking about that option too and use Washy from the bench.

Seen Tuffour a few times, very quick and elusive, reminds me a bit of Richie Barnett Jnr. I would like to see him get a game and see how he goes, but there has been a few games where he could have been and Agar has chosen not to use him.

Shame J Briscoe and Lyne are injured as this could have been a game to give them another game.

Not sure about th pace, we have rarley had chance to see it over the last 3 years, I would see him as a Gidley type centre, creating a lot for his winger and scoring a few himself from close range.

I see centre as our weakest position (apart from the wing, but there is nothing we can do about that) at the moment, we are good at hooker, Horne should be back soon so SO is covered, so putting Berrigan there would improve the overall balance of the squad by putting a bit of class in the backs.

was talking to reeces mam on friday night she said he was a week off being fit,which would mean this week

He doesn't want to play centre. He specifically came here to play hooker. And I'm not convinced that asking Houghton to play the full 80 minutes week in and week out is a good idea. If Houghton is going to be spelled then Berro is the man for that role.

Agar said last week he had pencilled in the catalans home game for horney to be back.

thats a pretty tough game to come back to isnt it?

1 Tansey
2 Whiting
3 Turner
4 Yeaman
5 Hall
6 Washbrook
7 Long

8 Dowes
9 Houghton
10 Radford
11 Tickle
12 Manu
13 Fitzgibbon

14 Berrigan
15 Lauaki
16 Cusack
17 Moa

Cant see why people are looking at having Hall in the team, i would give Tuffour a shot at it. Lets face it defensively he cannot be any worse than Hall is and if the rumours are true about Hall going to Rovers then we really don't need to be risking playing him the team.

Houghton had a cracker at hooker last week but if we go down the route of making him play the full 80 each and every week he will sone burn himself out. So for me Berro to start with houghton replacing him during the game as i think we get more out of him coming off the bench than vice versa.

definately agree about Hall. i think Tuffour is worth a shot. we'll never know how good he is until he's given a game in the 1st team. is he especially quick? even if he's not, he's a dedicated winger which Hall isn't.

I seem to recall the tactic of giving game time to an unproven youngster backfiring spectacularly on you guys the last time we played

The whole team were pants that day TBF.

We were awful, and it would be harsh to single Lyne out.

Fridays game is very important and we cannot afford to be complacent going into the game like we were at the willows earlier on in the season. A win could put us in joint 3rd and would give us great confidence going into the Huddersfield game, on the back of four successive wins. If we don't turn up, Salford will beat us and last fridays game will have counted for very little, therefore its imperative that we get the two points this week and push on towards the last quarter of the season.

It would be but it's true. The team were awful but Broughton had Lyne is his pocket and kept killing him everytime they were one on one. Lyne looked good with the ball in hand and almost broke through a few times but in defence he was left wanting.

attacking wise tuffour has done fantastic for york,but his defence has let him down slightly,which at that level,doesn't read well.but if we don't try him we will never know i suppose,but it looks like hall will be in to me.