Denis Betts has named the following 23-man squad for the pre-season trial game versus Swinton Lions at Leigh Sports Village on Sunday 8 January. Recently appointed captain Jon Clarke, vice-captain Shaun Briscoe and Rhys Hanbury are all set to make their debuts for the Vikings.



[uMissing Players[/u



Ben Cross

Anthony Watts

Simon Finnigan

Thomas Coyle

Grant Gore



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Dave Allen

Patrick Ah Van

Shaun Briscoe

Alex Brown

Hep Cahill

Jon Clarke

Danny Craven

Ben Davies

Chris Dean

Paddy Flynn

Alex Gerrard

Kurt Haggerty

Rhys Hanbury

Willie Isa

Ben Kavanagh

Macgraff Leuluai

Stefan Marsh

Scott Moore

Anthony Mullally

Jack Owens

Steve Pickersgill

Lloyd White

Frank Winterstein







I would go with



Briscoe

Flynn

Isa

Dean

Ah Van

White

Hanbury

Pickersgill

Moore

Mullally

Winterstein

Cahill

Clarke



Davies

Marsh

Gerrard

Craven

Kavanagh

Haggerty

Lulu

Allen

Brown

Owens

1 Briscoe

2 Flynn

3 Marsh

4 Craven

5 Brown

6 White

7 Hanbury

8 Pickersgill

9 Moore

10 Gerrard

11 Cahill

12 Allen

13 Clarke

I want to see Brown play as deserves a chance.Coyle dropped because Betts has just realised he is Spanglese.

I hope you are kidding?





I watched the Boxing Day game in depth the other day and he was one of our best players. In fact, though I think Scott Moore looked like he is going to be amongst our most influential, his distribution from hooker was much better than Moore's from acting half.



I also noticed that Ian Cheveau awarded Coyle with the Widnes motm in the League Express.

Cuffy likes them young

Your not going the Goose as your boyfriend is banned.

Coyle I will never rate as in my opinion a Championship standard player.Well if proves me wrong I will eat my .

Swinton by 14.

^

Look who's here. He's like the puppy who went missing months ago and suddenly appears and promptly shats in your front room....but you can't help still loving him!

I only do little sheets though.



Looking forward to the Stobart Vikings, playing in the Stobart Stadium in the Stobart Super League. It's time to "haul" ass. . . .

My guess is that we will start something like this:



01. Shaun Briscoe

02. Paddy Flynn

03. Chris Dean

04. Willie Isa/ 20. Stefan Marsh

05. Patrick Ah Van

06. Lloyd White

07. Rhys Hanbury

10. Ben Davies

09. Scott Moore

26. Anthony Mullally

11. Frank Winterstein

12. Hep Cahill

13. Jon Clarke



Subs:

16. Ben Kavanagh

25. Danny Craven

17. Steve Pickersgill

22. Macgraff Leuluai

21. Dave Allen

31. Alex Brown

28. Alex Gerrard

24. Kurt Haggerty

29. Jack Owens



Should be a tough game, with quite a few ex-Widnes players with a point to prove. Swinton look quite strong anyway, so I'm not expecting us to hammer them. I do feel, as a Super League side, we should be expecting a win.



Then again, I would imagine that Salford fans felt the same before kick off yesterday.

Oh dear Ah Van. Not very good is he. In fact none of your team were very good today.

Who scored? And why was Ah Van no good?