Tony Smith has named his 21-man squad ahead of Friday’s Betfred Super League Round Two clash against Warrington Wolves, in association with Jadan Press.

With the Black & Whites possessing a significant list of injuries and suspensions, with at least 14 first-team players unavailable for the fixture, Smith has named a young squad for the trip to the Halliwell Jones Stadium.



Seven changes have been made to the squad that was named ahead of last week’s Round One fixture, with Harvey Barron, Denive Balmforth, Matty Laidlaw, Jeylan Hodgson, Lennon Bursell, and Macca Harman all called into the squad, while Charlie Severs has also been named having been recalled from his loan spell at Betfred Championship side York Knights.



The seven incoming players replace Herman Ese’ese, Franklin Pele and Ligi Sao, all of whom drop out through suspension, as well as Danny Houghton through head injury protocols, Joe Cator through a hamstring tear, and Cam Scott through a calf issue – Zach Jebson also drops out of the squad.



Liam Tindall, (thumb), Carlos Tuimavave (calf), and Brad Fash (ankle), all of whom missed Round One, remain unavailable, while Jake Trueman (Achilles), Mitieli Vulikijapani (knee), Kye Armstrong (shoulder), and Cobie Wainhouse (knee) continue their recovery from longer-term issues.





The full 21-man squad can be found below:



1 – Tex Hoy

4 – Liam Sutcliffe

5 – Darnell McIntosh

7 – Fa’amanu Brown

11 – Jayden Okunbor

15 – Jordan Lane

16 – Jack Ashworth

19 – Morgan Smith

20 – Jack Brown

21 – Will Gardiner

23 – Davy Litten

24 – Nick Staveley

25 – Harvey Barron

26 – Lewis Martin

28 – Denive Balmforth

29 – Charlie Severs

30 – Matty Laidlaw

31 – Jack Walker

33 – Macca Harman

35 – Jeylan Hodgson

38 – Lennon Bursell

All I can ask for is a commited display with less dumb errors, its a good chance for some of our young players to make a name for themselves and potentially oust some of our underperforming 1st teamers in weeks to come

Bottom three and Barron drop out for me, every other player played first team so hopefully a chance to shine.

Hope their mams and dads have got the packed lunches ready, leaving school early as well.



Cmon boys we’ve got our travel booked.

That must be one the worst 21s named by any side

Would agree with that. Probably line up something like



Walker

McIntosh

Litten

Sutcliffe

Martin

Hoy

Smith

Ashworth

F Brown

Gardiner

Okunbor

Lane/Staveley

Staveley/Lane



J Brown

Balmforth

Severs

Laidlaw

May as well treat it as a friendly, take the pressure off the everyone and try and iron out the basic errors and work to a simple game plan that we have some chance of fulfilling and use it as a starting point. No trying to offload on tackle 2 on our own 20 or tackle one on their 20. Try and get into the grind, when we concede a try just start again and try and build some sort of platform to move forward on in the forthcoming games. Try and do that for 80 minutes with maximum effort and hopefully the scoreboard won't go ballistic and we can move onto next week with at least an air of positivity/promise.

That would be my side would have Staverley at 13, think he is more of a middle than Lane.



Got to be a concern for Damel Diakhate not getting in that squad, wasn't mentioned as injured was he?

Keep the score down time seems the most likely hope we can have for me.

In round 2, what a time to be alive

Those squad numbers





Going to be a long night. As others have said, just got to aim for a committed display and see it as good experience.

Hope Morgan Smith and Brown have just been practicing booting it as far down the pitch (but not too far that we give away a 7 tackle set) as they can all week, keep them away from our line all game and defend like it's a knock out game and we might keep it respectable