Goes without saying that this is a big test, another shortish turnaround before a longer gap to the cup game. Be interesting as to whether we put our eggs in the cup basket and err on the side of caution for this game's selection regarding players with slight knocks etc. I doubt we will though, doesn't seem to be Hodgson's mentality.

If no further injuries other than Bowden, just replace him with Brown, and if Faraimo is banned I guess Fonua comes straight in. If Griffin is out we go with Scott. Sneyd is a tricky one though. If Wynne hadn't gone on loan we'd maybe go with Connor to partner McNamara and Wynne FB but don't know what happens then.




Start of a tricky run of fixtures this. Looking forward to seeing how we go.

I don't expect all of those guys to be missing, I think Griffin and Sneyd will be fine. But if we get a worst case scenario we would probably need to move Tuimavave into the halves and give Vulikijapani (sp?) a debut.

Connor
Vulikijapani
Fonua
Scott
Swift
Tuimavave
McNamara
Sao
Houghton
Taylor
Lane
Savelio
Cator

Satae
Fash
Brown
Johnstone

It's actually not a bad side. It's still a good pack that should keep us competitive. Connor would need to pull out one of his really special performances for us to be able to create enough against Wigan though, but he's due a big one after a couple of patchy performances. Hopefully it doesn't come to that and Sneyd and Griffin are fit.

1) Griff

2) Mitch

3) Mahe

4) Jude

5) Swift

6) Los

7) Houghton



Tag

9) Johnstone

10) Bowden

11) Lane

12) Sav

13) Ligi

Subs

Fash

Cator

Scott

Brown

Eyes on the cup, give Sneyd a rest, and leave Jake out at the pie dome. If Josh Bowden a doubt try another young academy lad D

Think you are miles off with that team.
Undoubtably there will be changes if Hodgson decides to give players with niggles a rest given another relatively short turnaround.
Fonua is likely to come in for a banned Faraimo and if Griffin is out we may see our new Vulcan.
Eyes for sure on the cup.Reynolds running again so the club look to be trying to get him fit for this game.

Winning is a habit, we try to win every game. There is a good long break between this one and the cup game so no reason to be resting anyone unless they have a knock.

.... eg Bowden.

Just a bit of fun on a lazy Sunday afternoon Mr Z

Saw the pictures of his arm on Instagram

Hope the conditioning team can get some energy into tired legs.

2 match ban for Faraimo,

Probably fair enough, I thought one match ban, but with his record it was always going to be at least two.

Just because he is banned doesnt neccesarily mean he should have been sent off, if every player banned was sent off it would ruin most SL games. It was high but not late, so 10 minutes is fair enough IMO.

.... I thought that the Wakefield player flipping the ball on rather than catching it made the outcome look a lot worse than it might otherwise have been.