Brian Noble has announced his 21 man squad for Friday's game against Batley. Bayley Liu and Kieran Gill come back into the fold, replacing Mitch Souter. Nathan Mason, James Donaldson and Jorge Taufua are all sidelined with injuries. 


Guy Armitage
Logan Bayliss
Waqa Blake
Zac Fulton
Matty Gee 
Sam Hallas
Tom Holmes 
Luke Hooley
Konrad Hurrell
Joe Keyes
Michael Lawrence
Jordan Lilley
Bayley Liu 
James Meadows
Ronan Michael
Jayden Okunbor
Tyran Ott
Eliot Peposhi
Ebon Scurr 
Emmanuel Waine

Hopefully Ott will be given a chance in this match. I remain disappointed that we haven't manged to sign another winger in whilst Tafua seems indefinitely injured.

I have an awful feeling he will return with about 8 games left and just start finding his match fitness before he is banned! I have been impressed with Armitage and he looks solid defensively and would help sort out some of the weaknesses exposed out wide if he was playing at centre.


The defence has simply not been good enough against the top teams and if it doesn't improve I don't see how we improve on previous 3rd place finishes. I expect Batley will make it difficult and slow on the tight Odsal pitch.

Them losing their coach doesn't really help, this can always be a bit of a lottery. 


How often have we seen a team part ways with a coach and manager then produce the performance of the season....