I'd rather play an extra Forward (Farrell/Feka) and move O'loughlin to 6 or 9 as an interchange rather than play Deacon who's been missing for 3/4 weeks and before that was missing tackles for fun and looked way off the pace IMO.

phelps injury isnt serious, they decided not to risk him on fri.



coley is the main worry. there gonna make a decison about him thursday night.

Kevin Sinfield has been out injured since the World Club Challenge with a dead leg if I'm not mistaken.



We need Coley to be fit and Fielden to be performing to get anything out of this game. Feka can do a job for us in defence now but he has been pretty tripe going forward this season and has the longevity of potassium in water so it might be wise to leave him out.



Having no Riddell is a massive loss as we lose a lot of direction and organisation without him and Deacon isn't up to scratch.



I'm going to have to predict a loss unfortunately

I wouldn't play Feka untill he can do 60 mins in the reserves

I'd be tempted to give Feca a go, on the basis that he'll be determined to have a monster game in order to get his place back. In contrast, I wouldn't play Deacs because he's not even had a run out in the reserves since Bradford, where he was less than impressive.



If McIlorum is close to fully fit, there's no reason he can't play most of the game, giving us the option of 4 forwards on the bench, with Lockers dropping back into the halves if/when necessary.

Whether we want too or not we may not have a choice. As someone else has said, Coley is touch and go for Friday.

We should probably spell check any banner before putting it up.

Feka if played could have a cracker on friday! He has a point to prove!

You can't sat stuff like that about Feka he's rubbish don't you know!

So was Amos Roberts

Riddell missing is a huge loss for us. McIlorum isn't capable of directing us around the park yet.



Going to be a lot of pressure on Tommy Leuluai to do that, whether that be from 7 or 9.



As for the squad, I think Deacon will have to play; we're going to need some options in the halves given slight injury/fitness concerns over Sam and McIlorum.



I don't see Farrell getting a place, and if Coley is fully fit then it's unlikely Paleaaesina will get in ahead of any of our props, although, it would be nice to have an in form Feka charging at them from the bench.

well i don't think we will win but i expect feka and deacon to play and have outstanding games.if not the writing could be on the wall especially for feka.cumon lads.