Squad: Aspinwall, Bowden, T Briscoe, Foster, Green, Heremaia, Horne, Houghton, Lineham, Lynch, Manu, McGoldrick, Pitts, Seymour, Turner, Watts, Westerman, Whiting, Yeaman





Houghton's back in the squad, which is good, but in the interview with Gentle of FCTV he said that Houghton hasn't trained yet which makes me think that he probably won't play yet, or if he does it'll be short spells only.



Bowden, Houghton, Foster in

Cunningham (England Academy), Russell (Loan return), Crooks (injury) out.

would have Bowden on the bench

Obviously Houghton if he is able to, and rotate with Heramaia

if not then can see Green starting on the bench



think Lineham will miss out and Foster will play on the wing



Bench:

Bowden

Houghton/Green

Aspiwall

Pitts

Horne

Briscoe

Turner

Yeaman

Foster

McGoldrick

Seymour

Lynch

Heremaia

Aspinwall

Manu

Westerman

Whiting



Watts

Bowden

Pitts

Houghton



If either of Houghton or Bowden are unfit then I would put Green on the bench.



Lineham to miss out.



Put Foster outside of Yeaman as I think that Turner and Foster on the same wing could be a defensive nightmare.



Obviously this is all my opinion and not what I think Gentle would do.



It will be interesting to see how Liam Watts does in his first game back at Craven Park and against KR.

gutted that there is no O'Meley, even for 10mins he'd have offered some much needed impact. I personally would have played Radford his aggression too.

Bit light up front, however if it warm on Monday this may not be too bad, I expect/hope Watts may have a point to prove, I also hope Foster has a good debut as he likes the whitewash and kicking goals.

I doubt that it will be that warm come the evening kick off time.

On a slight tangent, i know we have 13 squad members missing plus a few released. But Soppycock over the river says they have just as many players out. I was just wondering who these mystery players were

Wishful thinking on my part

....no doubt it will be pickling it down after all it is July

The forecast is around 21 degrees on Monday evening. Summer rugby at last





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Welham and Lovegrove. Taylor not playing this one either. In a "triple timely boost", Galea, David Hodgson and Clinton all play.

If its 21 degree's, it'll still be 5 degrees inside Craven Park! that place is like the arctic!

To be honest, not looking forward to the derby. Heart says we'll win, but brain saying were gonna get battered.



To many players under performing and if foster is partnered with turner then the right hand side gonna get picked on. as neither can tackle

Turners performance has no doubt dropped off, however his tackling and missed tackles are better than both Yeamos and Crooks, he has only missed approx 10% of tackles compared to Yeamo & Crooks who are both on approx 20% missed tackles, Turner can tackle. Also worth noting he has made the 4th most metres out of the full team with only Lynch, Manu and Briscoe ahead of him. I think people are being too harsh on Turner, he appears to be the new scapegoat.

Willie Mason?

Liam Watts?