its easy picking the team

if you can run your in

He will no doubt leave Wynne at centre with Swift at full back and a full debut for Mitch.

Problem is we go into the game with our backs bigger than the forwards

If i was Pearson i would be fuming that we could lose 2 points all for a nonsense game

That’s the big problem with the likes of Taylor, Bowden & Matongo injured we don’t have any options left as it is, then the RFL decide it’s ok for what is a meaningless friendly to take another 2 of our forwards leaving the club with only Fash & Brown. How the RFL expect clubs to carry on with stupidity like this is beyond belief and they are bringing the game in to disrepute and showing a disrespect to both clubs.

An international should be played when no other fixtures are not on in that week.



It’s not like clubs & the game aren’t struggling enough as it is and that’s without the recent covid cases, but hey sod that the RFL just plough on regardless of thought.

Totally agree it’s a total nonsense of a game and what is it going to achieve really? It’s not like it’s the eve of the World Cup it’s bloody months away.



If perish the thought we lose say Satae or Sao to injury in that game out season would be pretty much done or would the RFL allow us to sign a replacement and then cover for said replacement? Of course not they’d carry on in blissful ignorance at giving Hull FC and AP a huge hit in a season that is already costing the club in lost income due to the restrictions still in place.

The fact there are fixtures on the same night is even more absurd. Lets have a huge chunk of our fans watching their club games instead of the national team. Its just madness in every respect.

Its ridiculous how this game can go ahead. I dont think we will even be able to name 17 players for this game.



We have Jake Wardle and Jermaine McGilvarry in the England squad with Kenny Edwards, Ricky Leutele and Aidan Sezer in the nations squad.



We have Jack Ashworth, Sam Wood, Chris McQueen, James Cunningham, Darnell McIntosh, Matty English, Oliver Russell and James Gavet out with the Covid protocols.



We then lost Joe Wardle to injury last night along with what I believe were failed HIAs for Adam O Brien and Jack Cogger who will have to miss out.



Jon Luke Kirby and Chester Butler are both out for the season who are in the first team squad while Innes Senior is on a season long loan at Wakefield.



As it stands our squad will be:



Olly Ashall-Bott

Louis Senior

????

Leroy Cudjoe

???

Lee Gaskell

???

Luke Yates

Ashton Golding

Oliver Wilson

Josh Jones

Sam Hewitt

Michael Lawrence



Ronan Michael

Owen Trout

???

???



A couple of the Covid lads might come back in. We are going to hope Jake Wardle etc dont get selected and can play. Other than that we will have to play our academy lads if it goes ahead.

The whole thing is ridiculous.

Yes as it stands we'll be missing Connor, Satae and Sao to the England game. Our injury list currently features Griffin, Tuimavave, Taylor, Cator, Bowden, Scott, Matongo, Shaul plus Harvey Barron who hasn't played for the first team but has a squad number.



Potentially just sixteen players available including Jude Ferrerira who has yet to make his first team debut and Miteli Vulikijapani who made his debut today.

I wouldn't' be worried if I was you. It will still be an easy 2 points for you!

Surely the integrity of the competition is compromised by this game taking place. Some teams are cancelling games due to covid and we’re taking remaining players out those squads.

What will we learn from it anyway?

Two sets of players who play each other all the time anyway.

Would much rather see an origin type setup. But then two 17s of England eligible players would end up fairly average. All for a chance to get beat by Australia in a final no one outside the sport watches.

Is it just my Black and White glasses or is it weird that Savelio never gets mentioned as a potential international? As an FC fan I prefer him not risking injury but I also really rate him and think him being overlooked is unjust.



He qualifies for England, NZ and Samoa but I don't know what his preference would be. Has he ever talked about it?

At least we are going to be in the same boat. We can just about put together a decent backline and halves but are really going to be struggling for forwards. Satae, Sao, Taylor, Bowden, Matongo and Cator all unavailable. There will be a couple of debuts for academy lads without a doubt.