Safe to say we're up against it.

At least it's not live on terrestrial TV. Oh hang on.

How we do beat this Saints team at full strength nevermind with these injuries! They're immense to watch this year. I love Richardson.

Brilliant to watch aren't they? Even giving Barba a breather now.

We're gonna get absolutely bummed.

No way. They only won tonight because of the referee (That's according to Powell by the way).

Pray for rain

Barba, Lomax and Percival getting sent off wouldn't be a bad thing either.

They play with great intensity in both defence and attack and throw their handling and ball movement in and they look like they're playing at a different level to the rest of SL. holbrook has transformed how they play the game

At least we'll get a couple of weekends off anyway

No cup to worry about, star players coming back in fit and fresh at the business end. All geared up for OT.

Utterly classless from him. Needs to turn his team around before he gobs off about refs.

We play a different game to Cas AND the performance by them was well below par, our forwards are still a match for Saints IF they are fit and healthy, it's whether we can put together a performance.

The question I posed still stands, do we play the squad players and let them have a bash at trying to pull off a shock or do we risk bringing back players from injury too early, not up to full match fitness and risk them getting injured (again) with a likely longer layoff effecting chances at the back end of the league, and indeed maybe not being able to perform at the level the squad player could due to the match fitness/still not fully recovered from injury?

Of course you go out to win the game but as with games throughout the season balancing when you bring back players even if they are an important part of the team has to be measured on the long term effects of the team overall as well as the health of the individual themselves.
Do we have a chance without Kelly and Sneyd + others, absolutely, there's always a chance of winning against the odds, do we bring players back not fully fit/not fully recovered, IMHO no we don't. There's a few weeks to go in any case and anything can happen between now and then.