Magic Weekend: This week’s Super League squad news
Here are the 21-man squads for Super League’s Magic Weekend fixtures…
Castleford v Salford (Saturday, 3pm, Sky Sports Arena)
Castleford coach Daryl Powell has made four changes to his side that lost to Wigan on Bank Holiday Monday. Paul McShane, Jacques O’Neill, James Clare and Lewis Bienek come in for the Tigers.
Kevin Brown, who will retire at the end of the season, has been named in the Salford squad after recovering from injury.
Castleford: Evalds, Olpherts, Mata’utia, Shenton, McShane, Millington, Holmes, Blair, Milner, Massey, Griffin, Foster, O’Neill, Hepi, Clare, Sene-Lefao, Smith, Matagi, Turner, Bienek, O’Brien.
Salford: Escare, Sio, Inu, Burgess, Lolohea, Brown, Ackers, Lannon, Addy, Roberts, Burke, Johnson, Atkin, Livett, Williams, Sarginson, Costello, Luckley, Hingano, Roebuck, Robson.
St Helens v Catalans (Saturday, 5:15pm, Sky Sports Arena)
St Helens will be without star half-back Jonny Lomax for around four weeks due to a hamstring injury.
Catalans duo Dean Whare and Matt Whitley have received the green light from the medical staff and return to Steve McNamara’s squad.
St Helens: Coote, Makinson, Naiqama, Percival, Grace, Walmsley, Roby, Lees, Thompson, Bentley, Knowles, Mata’utia, McCarthy-Scarsbrook, Amor, Paasi, Welsby, Smith, Batchelor, Dodd, Wingfield, Davies.
Catalans: Mourgue, Davies, Langi, Whare, Yaha, Maloney, Drinkwater, Dudson, McIlorum, Bousquet, hitley, McMeeken, Goudemand, Laguerre, J Tomkins, Cozza, Chan, Kasiano, S Tomkins, Dezaria, Rouge.
Leeds v Hull (Saturday, 7:30pm, Sky Sports Arena)
Leeds coach Richard Agar has been forced to make changes with Zane Tetevano suspended and Callum McLelland ruled out through injury. Alex Sutcliffe has been recalled from his loan at Featherstone, with Corey Hall also being drafted into the squad.
Hull coach Brett Hodgson has made three changes for the trip to Newcastle, with Jamie Shaul, Carlos Tuimavave and Mitieli Vulikijapani coming into the squad.
Leeds: T Briscoe, Newman, Handley, Lui, Leeming, Prior, Martin, Dwyer, Myler, Smith, Holroyd, Vuniyayawa, Thompson, A Sutcliffe, Walters, Briscoe, Donaldson, O’Connor, Broadbent, Hall, Gannon.
Hull: Connor, Faraimo, Tuimavave, Fonua, Sneyd, Houghton, Satae, Savelio, Ma’u, Sao, Johnstone, Fash, McNamara, Swift, Bowden, Wynne, Scott, Vulikijapani, Shaul, Burrell.
Huddersfield v Wakefield (Sunday, 1pm, Sky Sports Arena)
Lee Gaskell returns to the Huddersfield squad for Magic Weekend, with fellow half-backs Jack Cogger, Will Pryce and Olly Russell also being named.
Wakefield will be without Tinirau Arona for their trip to St James’ Park.
Huddersfield: Golding, Jake Wardle, Leutele, Gaskell, Lawrence, Jones, English, Greenwood, Cogger, McQueen, Wilson, Cudjoe, Russell, Senior, Trout, Wood, Hewitt, Ashall-Bott, Pryce, Peteru, Peats.
Wakefield: Johnstone, Lyne, Kay, Miller, Lino, Fifita, Wood, Tanginoa, Westerman, Pitts, Battye, Batchelor, Green, Senior, Crowther, Arundel, Wood, Walker, Aydin, Kershaw, Hampshire.
Wigan v Warrington (Sunday, 3:15pm, Sky Sports Arena)
Wigan coach Adrian Lam has made two changes to his squad that beat Castleford on Monday. Sam Powell and Umyla Hanley replace Jai Field (groin) and Amir Bourouh.
Warrington star George Williams is set to face his former club Wigan for the first time.
Wigan: Hardaker, Gildart, Marshall, Singleton, Powell, Bullock, Farrell, Bateman, Partington, Smithies, Byrne, Smith, Havard, Bibby, Clark, Shorrocks, Pearce-Paul, Halsall, Hanley, Hastings, O’Neill.
Warrington: Akauola, Ashton, Austin, Charnley, D Clark, J Clark, Cooper, Currie, Davis, Hill, Hughes, King, Longstaff, Mamo, Mulhern, Philbin, Ratchford, Thewlis, Walker, Widdop, Williams.
Leigh v Hull KR (Sunday, 5:30pm, Sky Sports Arena)
Leigh could be boosted by the returns of Matty Russell, Iain Thornley, Liam Hood, Sam Stone, Adam Sidlow and Jack Ashworth.
Hull KR will be without versatile forward George Lawler due to a thumb injury, with full-back Will Dagger coming back into the squad.
Leigh: Brierley, Russell, Thornley, Sa’u, Mellor, Hood, Hellewell, Thompson, Bell, Gerrard, Mason, Sidlow, Mullen, Brand, Elliot, Foster, Butler, Ashworth, Logan, Stone, Whitbread.
Hull KR: Crooks, Minikin, Kenny-Dowall, Hall, Bete, Parcell, Takairangi, Linnett, Litten, King, Storton, Dagger, Lewis, Keyes, Milnes, Maher, Johnson, Mustapha, Tate, Whur, Keinhorst.