I'd imagine he will come into the team for them at the weekend. Probably on the bench.


Slightly worried for the weekend with the players they have signed and the injuries we are picking up, along with the record they have against us. 

They have certainly picked up some decent names which puts pressure on us with ours missing but our advantage is hopefully having a settled spine and team.
If Trueman plays, like Trojan says we have our starting spine.


They have players who have not played together before. 
If it ends up being an individual off the cuff game it will benefit them.
A more disciplined game plan will benefit us.

There spine was too fast for us in the last game ,Atkin  is no mug and knows how to move a team round the Park .They got plenty of speed in the rest of the backs .If things go for them,  there backs could run us round the Park Like it or not the Cas   coaching staff have brought in a lot of quality over the last 6 week ..Would go as far as to say at present with injuries .lack of pace ,some of it because of a  Coach who will not change is mind ,even when it is not working ,will be favourite to finish in the top 8 at our expense of they win ..Been talking to a few Wakefield fans over the last few days who have said there not confident about Sunday

They're well stocked with pivots and options, and were the last time we played. We had Jay Pitts at 6 with Jowitt clearly not match fit. We can't go in with Scott on the wing again. 


It didnt seem like it on the night, but our forwards dominated with respect to metres made. I'd like to see the error rate drop, completions of sets high and a quick line speed in defence. It should see us home. However, we've not played that way for most of the season. We've got errors and penalties in us which add masses of pressure to our defence,  which has held out well considering.


Last time out Milnes had all the time in the world to place his kicks so that goes back to line speed.

Amone is a top recruit but the others like Salabio, Singleton, Dezaria wouldn’t be ahead of our props. They’re solid but that’s it. 

Lino is fit and if Truman is too then that’s a huge boost as we can go back to the 1st choice spine. 


I disagree about what you say about lack of pace alegend. We do not have a lack of pace or speed. Just with the changes in the spine we can’t effectively get the ball to the edges in space. 


The only player who lacks much pace is Scott but if he moves to centre that’s less of an issue. 


Honestly let’s not start saying Atkin, Salabio, Dezaria are good. Would we have any over our starting team. I wouldn’t. 


I think our issue is now looking like our injuries in the props. I think we need to be playing more expansive though at magic. If Mike can pull an 80 minute though this week that would help somewhat. Hopefully he doesn’t have to. 


If we have Lino and Trueman I will still be fairly confident we should be beating Cas even with a few forwards out. I’d be targeting the edges. 


Cas won’t be easy opposition and they will want to try run through us. If we can find that tough defence from early season and play with a bit more freedom and smarts I see no reason we shouldn’t win by a healthy score. Even with 8 or so out.