yeah we don't want smith.  he gave rovers everything on Friday night including a ridiculous decision to go try on that burgess one where he was nowhere near grounding the ball and 2 clear wigan tries where he went no try but was overturned.  Hopefully as it's not at the caravan site whoever is reffing won't be giving them everything.


kendall is my guess.


We've beaten wigan away so no reason we can't beat the dobbins at home if we up our game.  

the 2nd rowers are a big miss.  add in cartwright, lane and holmes and its a different game

The 17 Pretty much picks itself without any 2nd rowers being available. Only question is whether we should start with both Ese'ese & Knight. Admittedly we lose a lot of go forward when neither are on but think we gain more overall when both on together than we would splitting them up. 


Pryce
Briscoe
Rapana
Litten
Martin
Cust
Sezer
Ese'ese
Bourouh
Knight/Aydin
Hardaker
Chamberlain
Asiata


Balmforth
Ashworth
Aydin/Knight
Eseh

I suppose there are two approaches to the props, go for consistency throughout the game and split up Knight and Ese'ese or try and make hay with them both on and then go for more of a holding action while they're off.

We really struggled against wire when both were off, made worse by ashworth being put in the bin so I'd split them up,mayd8n is a decent defender so could be on in the jorenintense early stages then Knight and ashworth off the bench. I think k ashworth is better with a more dominant prop alongside him rather than being the main man

Less than 1k tickets left according to the wail so should be around 21/22k there.


SL should se a massive number of attendees overall for rivals round with the 3 big clubs all at home and us and Wigan near sell outs.