Would be very surprised to see Yacca out completely. He will still start at FB because in all honesty he hasn done badly in his spell.

Cant see Tom Wood-Hulme being there either as much as I like him in the reserves. Nothing to suggest he would be called up and given that Jack Smith has a squad number I would have thought he would be more likely to get a bench spot seen as Mullally has disappeared from sight and the new squad photo.

Slightly disagree with Yacca, he gives it a go but isnt good enough. I think Mullally has been dropped from the first team squad due to an incident in town.

I think I have read elsewhere that Mullally got injured in the friendly against Northampton.

Shame about the Friday game, but I honestly think it has turned out to be a blessing given our injury situation. No matter how good a team is, surely its nigh on impossible for Whitehaven (or any team for that matter) to play on Friday and then back it up by playing on Monday against a team who's had a weeks rest.

Personally, I think we've just got to try to pick up the wins against Whitehaven, Toulouse and Lezignan and see where we are then. I'd feel a lot more comfortable if we had a few players back from injury or hopefully new faces in the squad by then. Our run of fixtures after the Lezignan game is pretty tough and not sure we can achieve much this season with the pack missing Allen, Pickersgill and Haggerty.

In light of our injuries, I think we've blessed with the next three fixtures being Haven, Toulouse and Lezignan all at home.

I think in the world it said about the state of the injuries,and Ford,Houghton and Coyle wont be playing Vikingman.My team with them injured and dual away it be as follows.

1.Yates 2.Flynn 3.TKL 4.Grady 5.Gardner 6.Gerrard 7.Thackeray 8.Davies 9.Smith 10.Gannon 11.Varkulis 12.Kavanagh 13.Strong 14.Doran as rotaing prop. 15.hulme 16.Tom Wood Hulme 17.Mullaley/Thompson.

I am not a big fan of Yates,and with squad depleted we not got much choice.Only other option Grady fullback and Thompson playing centre.I would not risk players who are injured and could end up longer out.I am confident even with that team we can win the next few games.

You lot have a 'free' Friday, while our lot play in France and are then expected to play against Batley less than 30 hours after arriving back in the country! Only in rugby league...

The only thing the RFL could have done to stop someone travelling to France would be to give Toulouse the Friday off.

That would make sense and this is RL.

didn't leigh just end up with gateshead's fixtures?

I presume so.

Surely it wasn't that hard to give Toulouse the Friday off and have our annual fixture, this is the RFL after all.