Id also give thornley another chance thought he played well against saints

It's difficult to compare statistics like that though becase they do different jobs and do a different amount of work. According to official stats Fitz has missed 9 tackles (don't know if that includes the 3 misses in Leuluai's try on Friday as seperate ones) and Smith mas missed 14 - but Fitz has only made 19 tackles to Smith's 108 - so Fitz is currenlty missing about 1 in every 3 tackles, to Smith's 1 in 9 - and they tend to be costlier when a fullback misses. Equally, you'd expect a half bak cto touch teh ball more than a fullback, so, again simply looking at handling errors alone could be misleading.



I'm not sticking up for, or slagging either player here - just saying stats are not definitive. I'd suggest that both players are currently out of form.

Hull Kingston Rovers and Salford City Reds have announced their 19-man squads for the engage Super League clash at Craven Park on Sunday.









Hull Kingston Rovers squad



Cockayne, Fox, Welham, Webster, Colbon, Cooke, Dobson, Fozzard, Fitzhenry, Lovegrove, Newton, Galea, Murrell, Gene, Fisher, Netherton, I'Anson, Aizue, Wheeldon.







Salford City Reds squad



Fitzpatrick, Myler, White, Jewitt, Turner, Smith, Wilshere, Cashmere, Alker, Stapleton, Sidlow, Parker, Swain, McGilvray, Littler, Leuluai, Paul, Adamson, Ratchford.

MY TEAM WOULD BE AS FOLLOWS



Sidlow.



Rested: Paul.

I'd like to see something along the lines of:



Wilshere



McGilvary

Littler

Turner

White



Ratchford

Myler



Cashmere

Alker

Stapleton

Parker

Adamson

Swain



Sidlow

Leuluai

Jewitt

Fitzpatrick



Smith and Paul to miss out



Is Mark Henry Injured or just dropped?

As Iain says it is difficult to compare, personally I think both have made too many basic errors.



Fitzy keeps letting the ball bounce, he needs to adjust his game to the injury, I think he underestimates just how much pace he has lost.



Said before that Smith is like a small dog always 3 or 4th into the tackle.



Let Stef have a go with Myler, even if we lose by 50 he will be getting experience.

its says on the reds site he's injured again!

i agree, ratchford deserves a chance in his favoured position, if myler can play that well in superleague ratchford surely can imo, they could be a deadly combination, well more than the MYler-Smith partnership any way

First off can anyone advise what is wrong with Henry ?? Cant believe that we have had to play him out of position all year cos of injuries for him to now be injured when we get some wingers on the park !!!!!





As for the team this will, arguably be the strongest we have had this year so no excuses, unless White & wilshire pull up lame in the first 5 mins !

FB - Fitz.

W- McGilvray & White

C - Littler & Wilshire

HB Myler & Smith

FR - Cash Alker Stapleton

SR - Adamson Parker

LF - Swain



Bench Lulu, Sidlow, Ratchford, Paul



As for tactics etc it seems from what I see at matches and on here that we need to give our fr row a bit more time on the pitch and stop making so many subs at one time which disrupts play.

Either way with people on the pitch who can finish I am more hopeful for Sunday. Whilst not criticiseing any players I would say we could have had several more tries had White started the season.

Here`s forever optimistic, hopefully reality won`t spoil it too much this weekend

I would go with:



1 Fitzpatrick

2 White

3 Wilshere

4 Littler

5 McGilvary

6 Ratchford

7 Myler

8 Cashmere

9 Turner

10 Stapleton

11 Adamson

12 Swain

13 Alker



14 Paul

15 Parker

16 Leuluai

17 Sidlow



Smith and Jewitt to miss out.

I think Henry is still jet lagged according to Simms article in the MEN

just to let you know the joker mcrae has dropped stefan back to the 21 s so i will now only be going to home games because i have payed for my season ticket wont travel away whilst this joker is in charge somebody give me a reason why ratchford deserves to be dropped instead of that clown smith