Nice work Ricky!

We are down four first teamers for the game at your place: Cunningham (due to a family bereavement), Flannery (injured), Gardner (injured) and Soliola (injured). I hope no-one else gets injured or else we're going to have to start bringing in the very new guys, as opposed to those who were very new last season.

Must confess, I'm glad Bosc won't be playing: not because I wish injury on anyone but because we might have a bit of a chance with him not kicking us to death!

Out of interest, I thought Ferriol would be banned for you guys. Didn't he get sent off against Quins ?

He did get sent off, but (and my translation of French off the offy isnt great) it would appear the red card was punishment enough.

£250 fine for the punch, not to trivialise it (but this will, sorry), how much does that work out per tooth?

A lot as he barely touched him.

Thanks for clearing that up.

The official site has the 19 man squad up.

1 Clint Greenshields

2 Steven Bell

3 Sébastien Raguin

4 Setaimata Sa

5 Dimitri Pelo

6 Adam Mogg

8 David Ferriol

9 Casey McGuire

10 Jérôme Guisset

11 Olivier Elima

12 Grégory Mounis

13 Dallas Johnson

16 William Barthau

17 Cyrille Gossard

18 Dane Carlaw

21 Sébastien Martins

22 Jamal Fakir

23 Chris Walker

24 Rémi Casty

Bells pulled out injured, Stacul in

Get in!

Walters out!

Guisset won't play. He's 18th man and will turn out for St Estève/XIII Catalan on Sunday

Is this game being shown live on Orange Sport?

not this time.....

Apparently not now & St Esteve go to Carpentras with only 15 players

and people wonder why the better clubs aspire to play in the British competition, travelling with 15 men is the kind of thing you see happening in the Barrow and District league.

No arguments about the red card and it was game over right there. Slightly concerned over the lack of organisation once Elima went - too few players seemed to know where they were supposed to be.

Barthau-watch: Didn't get much ball in hand, especially after the red card, but showed a few decent touches.

I think that was the right decision by Ganson but I'm not convinced Elima was malicious in his tackle; I'm inclined to believe he just got it all wrong. I don't think he should be banned.

Elima's never been noted for being a dirty player, but it looked awful. I expect a couple of games for that at least. Only his previous good record will save him from worse.
I can't and won't defend it. He led with the forearm/elbow to the head and that's a ban for mine.

I'll second that

Elima's tackle, I blame Walters.

At least you're consistent mate

Nah, if he was consistant he'd blame Bell!

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I have to agree with Ollis comments, I felt his shoulder was tight to his body, it was unfortunate that the lads head was down so low, Elima was commited and couldnt pull out of the tackle. I certainly didnt think a red was warranted. It was very similar to a challenge in the Wire Wigan game in which Morely cleaned up Hansen.

You wouldnt catch me making Steve a scapegoat!!!