A massive game coming up. Big blow losing Houghton and Taylor but Fash and hopefully Sao will be back. Tex can't be far away either.
Would imagine he'll start with Dwyer and have Lovodua on the bench to cover.

Litten/Hoy
Mcintosh
Carlos
Sutcliffe
Trueman
Clifford
Sao/Satae
Dwyer
Fash
Savelio
Scott
Cator

Satae/Gardiner
Brown
Lovodua
Lane

Think Carlos might get a ban, might get away with it, as was one on one and dropped on his back.

Cant see the point of using Hoy again this season
Do what Wigan did with Field,bite the bullet and have him come back next season fully healed

Whoever plays we need to win.

If we lose this we go 4 points adrift of them with a worse points difference. So basically 5 points behind them with four to play. That would pretty much put them above us for this season and leave one spot to play for instead of two. Win this one and we have them in our sights.

Is Hoy's hamstring injury the same grade as Field's was?

If Hoy is OK to play then play him at least whilst we have a chance to make the play offs.

Why if he's fit ? Do you know how bad the injury is ? Or just guess work?

I think this is the game we need the win . Two points against wire would through us right in the mix imo

While im not that bothered about making the 6 as such (you only get a minor cut of pooled gate receipts and SL fans dont turn up in number for the playoffs) winning our home games and breaking the end of season slump we've had for years now is very important for pass sales and general optimism building for 2024.

Definitely. We need to be putting this Warrington team away on our own muck. Then we can move on to putting Leeds away.

Re Hoy are most things guess work from fans - he has got to pass protocols to play. When he’s fit he’s very good for us

With Houghton out itll be interesting if we see Balmforth in the squad or not, Smith doesnt seem to mention him at all

It looks like he will finish the season at Thunder. If that's what Smith thinks is best then I trust that. You can probably learn a lot from a relegation fight.

Balmforth is at scrumhalf today. Hope he does well.

Dufty having a good game for wire .

I wonder if Brian Smith will be at the game as he was seen at the Leigh game yesterday .

Wow, he wins it for Wire if he takes that ball, last play of the game.

We drop below Leeds but not a bad result for us. Big games coming up against these two neither of whom should have us worried. A real chance to put ourselves in the mix.

Classic Duffty the last 3 minutes

Reckon Wire win would have been a better result.
Brings Leeds right back into the equation now.
Personally think next week is a must win game.
Can't see Salford losing at home to Wakefield which would make them very difficult to overhaul.

a wire win would have us looking at claiming 6th spot making it harder, losing still keeps 5th and 6th open, still some twists and turns to come in the next few weeks, a lot of fixtures between teams in 5th to 10th!

Swings and roundabouts I suppose. We need to win at least 4 from our last 5 so beating Warrington is imperative Id say.

agreed, we cant afford to lose any of the next 4 games, watching leeds/wire this afternoon, would be disappointed if we lost at home to those two, fingers crossed the injuries clear up for Sao/Taylor and Hoy if Litten failed his head test , id rather have our next 3 fixtures than our 6 fingered neighbours east

I believe Litten passed his head test.

Yep TS said post game that Litten was fine. Taylor a d Houghton will be missed but with Fash back & hopefully Sao that should negate the loss of Taylor. With Houghton missing surely it’s time to bring Balmforth in to the 17 or Will TS run with Dwyer/Lovodua. Hopefully Carlos won’t face a ban.
Great shame for Staveley he still struggling with the injury he picked up in the reserves game. Wonder if it’s too soon to give Jebson an opportunity?

I thought Bentley had a good game for Leeds .