"Liam Marshall was touch and go with a lower abdominal injury, he was playing through the pain in the run up to the international break and we thought the week off would do him good, but it was a tricky one.



“Cade (Cust) did a full session today, and got good feedback back from the physio. Kaide (Ellis) certainly won’t be this week or the next few weeks. We will end up with a few bodies back at the same time.”



Ryan Hampshire could also make his second debut with Peet saying: “Ryan is certainly in the mix and we will see how he goes.”

Thanks for the quotes.



It would be hard to drop Thornley after his performance but will be glad to have Marshall back.



I’m no Cust fan but would be a boost to have him back as opposed to Shorrocks (who can help us out in the forwards).

Isa and Cust in the squad. I’d certainly be looking to get a game in to Cust, if we then want him to play next week in a cup game. I’d probably look at pushing Smithies up to prop for this one and use Shorrocks at 13 to start (with a possible move to 6 if Cust needs a breather late on).



I’d go-



French

Miski King Wardle Marshall

Cust Smith

Smithies Powell Havard

Isa Farrell Shorrocks



Subs

Mago Byrne KPP O’Neill

You'd hope either Cust or Hampshire will start at 6, fair play to Shorrocks for putting his hand up but our points for have just dried up, really need a half back at half back

Peet will have to decide which of Cust and Hampshire is most ready for the cup game next week so maybe they will both get some game time. Its an important 2 points but the absolute be all and end all. The bench still a big issue with Mago essentially a passenger at the moment - I think we can add him to the list of poor front row recruits Radlinski and co.

Reserves play at Robin park at 17:30 before the game.



Hampshire should get 80 minutes under his belt in that game.

In terms of making ground and cutting out his errors, he’s doing better IMO but defensively he’s an accident waiting to happen. His lack of intent and willingness to bend his back is so so poor. Satae walked about 20-25 metres last week with Mago pawing at him.

KPP was worse, completely gave up and fell off him. Amazed he will be in the NRL next year.

The thing is, he’ll switch on and commit fully to it and go ok IMO, because to me this move has been on his mind for ages and he’ll know he’ll need to be at his best. It’s frustrating watching him for us this season. One week it looks the penny has dropped and he’s putting himself about, but then the following week, he’s back to pawing at people in defence and shirking the tough carries in attack. You look at him from Wire away, to last week at Hull and it’s chalk and cheese. That can only be an attitude thing.

There's glimpses of something there but like you say, not nearly enough consistency. Would love to be wrong and he makes something out of it but seen nothing to suggest he will magically change his attitude in a tougher playing environment.

Could this be our last game at the DW?

Ever?