Venue: Halliwell Jones Stadium, Warrington
KO: 20:00
Referee: S Ganson
Sky Sports 3
Teams:
Warrington (17 from): Anderson, Atkins, Blythe, Bridge, Briers, Carvell, Clarke, Cooper, Grix, Higham, Hodgson, King, M. Monaghan, Morley, O'Brien, Solomona, Westwood, Wood, J. Monaghan.
Castleford (17 from): Mathers, Dixon, Arundel, Owen, Chase, Orr, Jackson, Hudson, Emmitt, Snitch, Ferres, Jones, Milner, Fozzard, Aspinwall, Massey, McGoldrick, Holmes, Widders
Both sides come into this week's game on the back of a win, well a thrashing of their respective opponents, Keighley and Rochdale, in the Challenge Cup last Sunday but that form is irrelevant for this match.
Warrington lie top of the Super League after a four match winning streak, they're only top due to points difference, theirs is far superior to 2nd placed Huddersfield who are also on 18 points. Tony Smith will welcome 5 first teamers back to the side: Brett Hodgson, Ben Westwood, Louis Anderson, Joel Monaghan and Chris Bridge after all sat out their CC victory. Jon Clarke is also back in the side but the league leaders will be without Ben Harrison who has ankle ligament damage.
Castleford had been top of the league themselves only a few weeks ago. They drew with Harlequins at The Stoop a week or so before the busy Easter period; that seemed to be the turning point in their season as they lost their three next matches after that. Confidence should have returned to the Castleford camp after their emphatic victory against Rochdale last week, but, let's face it, it was nothing less than expected really?
I think Warrington will continue their winning run but it won't be as easy as Warrington would like. It would be better for my boys if Castleford won, so you know what to do!
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