early team news, george burgess out with a 4 match ban, also tomkins missing with a fracture and clarke with the injury sustained in the second test. richie myler to partner george williams in the halves (connor can step in if needed during the game i suspect). joe greenwood mooted to make his debut.



ticket sales looking pretty good also with only east stand upper not open for business yet, and the rest looking pretty full

I just hope we play Johnstone. I don't think I could put up with reading and hearing Wakey fans constantly cry ing over his exclusion for the rest of the close season.

There wasn't many left when I got mine the other day, should be a great crowd and hopefully game.

George Burgess is suspended, Sean O’Loughlin, Sam Tomkins and Daryl Clark are all injured. We could be forced to play Tom Johnstone at this rate.

Looks like it’ll be



Lomax

McGillvary

Gildart

Connor

Makinson

Williams

Myler

Graham

Hodgson

T.Burgess

Whitehead

Bateman

Thompson



Milner

Hill

Greenwood

Ratchford



Bench looks a bit light. Could start Milner at loose and use Thompson as a straight swap at prop off the bench (or start with T.Burgess on the bench)

Yes of course we could.



Much as he's a fine athelete and an excellent RL player, he wont be filling in at Prop, Hooker, Loose Forward or Scrum Half and with Makinson in such fine form, he'll be watching from the stands.

As one sage put it on the london forum recently, they finished just outside the top 4......or as us cockneys call it 5th

Glad Burgess was banned I though what he did was really bad advert for the game

so do I - there you go happy now?

Hilarious cockney wit as usual

No news on NZ yet though they seemed to pick up a couple of injuries in the last test. Expect them to be changed too

Yes they have got 3 Aussies in lol