if the OP is correct and those four players are missing, I can't see Cas being massively threatened the way our boys have defended this year... Lunt Grix and Brough are your main threats, there's no secret about that.



That being said, I don't really want them all to be missing just for the constant drivel the general public will have to hear from the SKY team, who week on week want to talk about the players who aren't playing more than the game itself.



It's got all the makings of a cracker - similar to the game we had in May. Again, to beat Hudds with three play-makers missing would be a little anti-climactic considering we owe you a big performance from then





Hopefully we will see you out in numbers rather than deciding to watch it in the pub - we've all been there after a bad loss.



We aren't playing quite as well as we were in May and I still reckon we've half an eye on the CC.



With 2 fully fit squads I'd go 22-30

If the OP is correct I'd go 28-16



Fine margins..... Enjoy your trip darn't lane

still no word on brough,grix or lunt but murphy could come back, we also have jake connor available after injury who could fill in at full back.

as for SKY, they only seem to mention players missing

but you're right it get tedious, every team has a squad for that reason, i think they just use it as a ready made excuse should one of the favourites lose.



as for seeing us out in numbers, forget it, our fans rarely travel well when a game is on sky, and with it being a friday night too and coming off the back of a poor showing then that's 3 reasons why our fans won't travel, we are a fickle bunch, a bit like yourselves, but not on the same scale, if we had won easily on saturday i reckon a couple hundred more would have come, however the usual 200 will still be there down the side, but we will probably be judged on the handful of fans on the railway terrace.



i'm looking forward to seeing how we react to saturday, usually a good game at cas.

usually a good game? one usually batters the other of late! haha

but no reason why it shouldn't be. Doubt there will be more than 10 points in it

Grix has torn an adductor will be out for a month.

Surely got to be a reaction from the Giants, Anderson made it very clear how he felt about being too soft. If Broughy out in a strange way it may bring a bit more flow to our game - we haven't got the star man to go to so more reliant on an all round team effort, and Bailey looks more than capable.

Start is important -if Cas get a couple of tries early it could be a long night!

Ok so let's have an early shot at the squad! Let's assume grix, brough, Lunt, Murphy are all out which is quite a possibility!



Fb Conor

Wing Jerry

Leroy

Wardle

Wing Broughton

Halves bailey

Halves wood

2nd row Patrick

Hooker robbo

2nd row ferres

Prop koppy

Prop kafusi

Loose Lawrence



Bench

Eorl int prop

Mullay int prop

Taai int 2nd row/loose

Fuey anywhere needed!

if it was up to me i would go with



connor

jerry

leroy

wardle

broughton

bailey

wood/robbo

johnson

robbo/wood

ta'ai

ferres

chan

lawrence



patrick

crabtree

mullally

faiumu

Fuey is out. Leeming and Miller in the squad, maybe Leeming on the bench!?

I think I would play connor, Miller and leeming - we have nothing to lose and atleast if we get beaten the sky team will be able to wax lyrical about how many youngsters we have had to play and how we werent expected to win.

The one i find strange is Lunt. It says he has a calf strain so surely he should be back by now. Makes me wonder of there is more to his abscence than the club are letting on.

Probably not. Talking to one of the players about it on Saturday it just sounds like every time he makes progress it's regressing- he's pushing it too hard probably!

Lunt was with his youngster at the game last Saturday. If he'd fallen out then would he have been present?



I'd do a 'Wigan/St Helens' & play all 3 youngsters. After all, no-one expects us to win [apart from me!!, so we've nothing to lose.