I think it’s a bit OT to say we might get turned over, I fully expect a victory today against a weak KR side. I think the pack we are likely to put out should dominate theirs and from that Hastings, French, Marshall and Manfredi should have a good day.

Out of the props we have at our disposal at the moment I reckon Clubb and Flower will be shipped out to make way for Wells and Kilner.

Wells is a 2nd row and clubb just signed a new 2 year deal so dont think that is going to happen.

Benny has a deal until the end of this year so he may be a bit vunerable

My mistake on Wells but his build is more of a front rower than a back rower. I wouldn’t be surprised to see him propping in years to come.

I know about Clubb but I’d hope we can release him somehow

Starting 13;

French
Marshall
Bibby
Zak
Manfredi
Hastings
Tommy
Bryne
Powell
Oli
Farrell
Isa
Smithies

G Burgess
Flower
Havard
Smith

I probably wouldn’t go with that starting front row but other than that I think it’s a decent side. Well capable of putting a decent score in against KR.

Rotating the props to keep them all fresh, I like it. Looking forward to seeing Havard.

Perhaps Bullock and Clark back in on Friday against Salford, since the team have a short turn around. Then best possible pack vs Catalans

Doesn’t make sense to me and the “rotating props” excuse. It just doesn’t wash. If we were truly rotating Bryne, Oli and possibly Havard would be rested given they’ve played every game (except Havard). Bullock and Clarke would be in, after all they’ve played twice.

I’ve nothing against Oli, Bryne or Havard playing at all but let’s call this what it is; a dropping of Bullock, Clarke and Clubb (the latter can stay dropped too).

Well we made hard work of that. Hats off to KR though they played well and were the better team.

HKR had a good go, I never thought they would win it. Marshall and Bibby were poor today, Burgess would have been chased out of the town by a pitchfork waving mob if he had made the errors Marshall made today.

Will Marshall get dropped?

Are you kidding? We were miles off our best but never looked like losing?

I agree. We were better with Hankinson in the side last week. I’m not at all convinced by Bibby and he really needs to up his game.
Marshy has been superb but had a shocker today. There’s a god should for Hank and Budgie on the flank if today is anything to go by.