Team for Wire (a) : Mon Apr 25, 2022 9:42 am  

French
Miski
Thornley
Bibby/Halsall
Marshall
Cust
Smith
Singleton
O'Neil
Ellis
Isa
McDonnell
Partington

Byrne
Mago
Havard
Shorrocks

Re: Team for Wire (a) : Mon Apr 25, 2022 9:44 am  

I’d be up for resting a few & think that’s a decent shout. I don’t think Peet will go that way though.

Re: Team for Wire (a) : Mon Apr 25, 2022 11:08 am  

I would rest Field, Cust, Farrell, Byrne, Bateman and Mago. Just concentrate on the cup, we won't miss these 2pts.

Re: Team for Wire (a) : Mon Apr 25, 2022 11:16 am  

Wigg'n wrote:

I would rest Field, Cust, Farrell, Byrne, Bateman and Mago. Just concentrate on the cup, we won't miss these 2pts.

I find this a slightly odd approach - if you were going to rest players it would have made sense to do it vs Salford IMO.

But a conditioner (or even in condition) I ain't

Re: Team for Wire (a) : Mon Apr 25, 2022 11:52 am  

With Catalans losing yesterday it gives us a bit of leeway, worst case scenario we're joint 2nd after 11 rounds, I think most of our supporters would've bitten anyone's hand off for that at the start of the season

Re: Team for Wire (a) : Mon Apr 25, 2022 12:37 pm  

Full strength for me. We need confidence and cohesion between the new spine.

Field
French Bateman Thornley Marshall
Cust Smith
Singleton O’Neill Ellis
Isa Farrell Smithies

Subs
Mago Byrne
Havard Shorrocks

I’d probably go Halsall at centre but I think it’ll be Bibby again but with a view to the semi final I’d feel more confident with Isa and Bateman on that right hand side, defending near Harry Smith, than I would if it’s Bibby or Halsall in the centre spot.

Re: Team for Wire (a) : Mon Apr 25, 2022 12:46 pm  

NickyKiss wrote:

Full strength for me. We need confidence and cohesion between the new spine.

Field
French Bateman Thornley Marshall
Cust Smith
Singleton O’Neill Ellis
Isa Farrell Smithies

Subs
Mago Byrne
Havard Shorrocks

I’d probably go Halsall at centre but I think it’ll be Bibby again but with a view to the semi final I’d feel more confident with Isa and Bateman on that right hand side, defending near Harry Smith, than I would if it’s Bibby or Halsall in the centre spot.

I agree. Let's keep the pressure on.

Re: Team for Wire (a) : Mon Apr 25, 2022 12:48 pm  

I'd consider resting Faz, Byrne and Bateman for this one. They've all played long minutes and I think we can win this one without them.

Re: Team for Wire (a) : Mon Apr 25, 2022 1:14 pm  

I think we need to take a risk and rest/rotate players so that we go into the challenge cup semi with the best chance of beating Saints.

I am not going to state here which players get rotated because the club will know who is carrying an injury, whose recovery is taking longer, whose stats in the match are lagging etc.

Re: Team for Wire (a) : Mon Apr 25, 2022 1:51 pm  

Happy enough to give anyone a rest who really is in need of it, but we have an 8 day turnaround between Wire and the Saints games. We'll have some players in the Semi who haven't played too much rugby yet this season either, so I'd rather give them a runout against Wire in a team which is pretty close to the same team that we'll use against Saints rather than one which is missing 6/7 first teamers.