Hopefully Taylor, Hoy and Sutcliffe are back, I don't like Scott on the wing so if Swift is out I'd play Litten there.



Thought Scott was our best player yesterday, runs strongly so I'd have him in place of Lovodua.



I don't think McNamara at hooker is working, passing isn't great and offers little running threat.



I'd go with



Hoy

Litten/Swift

Sutcliffe

Carlos

Mcintosh

Trueman

Clifford

Sao

Houghton

Fash

Scott

Savelio

Cator



Taylor/Brown

Dywer (I'd have Balmforth but can't see that)

Lane

Satae

About right

I’d stick with Macca instead of Dwyer, don’t think he done anything wrong. Cats dominated the ruck yesterday but when he could he sped up the passing from halfback. Gets a lot of bad press even when he doesn’t play.

Worth watching the game again, gave out a couple of shocking passes from acting halfback. Seems a decent kid and he must show something at training, but I've never seen it. Don't think he is SL quality just yet. Think he could do with a spell playing hooker or halfback in the championship.

Clifford put out a couple of shocking passes, think one was Lover couldn’t take it and one that went high to the wing. Think they were forcing the game by then.

Agreed.

The knock-on that Joe was getting called for on another thread was a pants ball from JakeCliff.

Got some boot on him though.

Enjoyed the 40/20 and some of his kick restarts had some right action on them.

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Double post

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It wasn't a great pass, but a SL player should have taken it IMO.



I think has earnt that he can make a few mistakes, he still did some very good things too.

I don’t think there was a problem with the knock on. The problem was his putting his head down & just walking after Davies instead of trying to catch him. He wouldn’t have caught him but you’ve still got to put some effort in after an error.

He was injured, that's why he was stuck out wide on the wing.

That’s fair enough then, I didn’t know that. Just came across as lazy watching it. Hopefully his injury isn’t too serious.

My post was in answer to you bagging Macca. Funny that, Clifford can make mistakes but Mac banana can’t.

Any players can make mistakes, but if a player does this there need to do something positive to balance it out.



I just don't think he is good enough, can anyone tell me when McNamara has done a really good pass or a good run this season?

Wouldn’t mind seeing one of the props who destroyed you guys on Saturday lent for a week or two tbf.



Won’t be the last team to be on the end of it like, they are looking strong

Bit harsh.

Anybody who's picked their tickets know if its reserved/unreserved in the North Stand?

I hope they win the competition. It will make SL more interesting. In a salary capped sport the same teams winning the league doesn't help it's credibility.

No bans for either team. Fwiw think they got the Lewis call right

Difficult to call the game on Sunday, Derbies normally are.



Despite defeat against Catalan, we actually defended pretty well against a big, quick and flamboyant side. I don't believe Rovers pack to be as big, and I think our attack will be a lot better next week, so predicting a 20-10 win to us

dont think so

Catalan dominated us for most of the game

You cant compete at the top level in S/L playing with four small lightweight forwards and a supposed nine playing in the second row

Bookies have Rovers firm favourites

Yaha and Zenon gone back with the Catalan team apparently.

Apparently none of our players would get in their team so it’s hardly surprising

No surprise really as Yaha was only short term cover for Hall which for me seems short sighted. They already have Walker as replacement for Coote with Zenob again another short term deal after Walker failed his HIA.



Get the feeling this game may well boil over for some reason.



Hope Swift is 100% for Sunday

Top teams/players dominate all sports



Only been 6 different teams that's won the Premiership in last 20+ years



Djokovic Federer and Nadal dominated tennis for 15 years



BUT I DEFFO THINK THE SALARY CAP NEEDS SCRAPPING ALL IT DOOES IT HOLD THE SPORT BACK