Catalan v Castleford preview
Daryl Powell has made just two changes to the squad who claimed victory over Warrington Wolves last Thursday night with Paul McShane and Scott Wheeldon coming back into the squad, seeing Ryan Boyle and Michael Channing missing out.
For the first time the Tigers will be paying a flying visit to Catalans, travelling there and back on game day. Here’s what head coach Powell had to say about this decision:
“Usually with this trip Thursday gets taken up with travel and you have one session the day before, generally in pretty extreme heat. You try and keep the boys out of the sun but just walking around in it takes its toll. By going there and back in the same day obviously you have to get up a bit earlier, but I don’t see any reason why we can’t manage it.
Coops has spoken to the boys about how we are going to manage it throughout the week and how they can manage their sleep leading up to it, so I think we’ve prepared as well as we possibly can and training has gone great. We’ve got all the motivation we need leading into this one.”
The Dragons have five consecutive victories over the Tigers at home, and are trying to prolong this run.
Catalan staff are still without Vincent Duport, Michael Oldfield, Rémi Casty Greg Mounis and Fouad Yaha, can count on the return of Ben Pomeroy, who has served his one-match suspension.
The Catalan center replaces Willie Tonga in the group, made one change from last weekend.
Catalan: Morgan Escaré, Ben Pomeroy, Todd Carney, Scott Dureau, Olivier Elima, Ian Henderson, Zeb Taia, Louis Anderson, Thomas Bosc, Jeff Lima, Eloi Pelissier, Elliott Whitehead, Ben Garcia, Julian Bousquet , Antoni Maria, Jason Baitieri, Tony Gigot, Krisnan Inu, Jordan Sigismeau
Castleford: Justin Carney, Matt Cook, Luke dorn, Liam Finn, Luke Gale, Ashley Gibson, Oliver Holmes, Andy Lynch, Nathan Massey, Mike McDeeken, Paul Mcshane, Grant Millington, Adam Milner, Junior Moors, Ben Roberts, Michael Shenton, Gadwin Springer, Jake Webster, Scott, wheeldon
