The team news for Saturday’s Super League games has been confirmed, with four club naming their initial 21-man squads including Wigan Warriors and Leigh Leopards.
The Warriors welcome a coachless Huddersfield Giants to the Brick Community Stadium, whilst Leigh host Toulouse Olympique in round six of the competition.
Leigh have been handed a major boost as star prop Joe Ofahengaue returns to Adrian Lam’s side. He is the only change for the club, with youngster Oliver Polec dropping out. Polec has joined Whitehaven on loan in a bid to find game time.
Opponents Toulouse welcome back Maxime Stefani and Baptiste Rodriguez to the side. Joe Bretherton and Pierre-Jean Lima drop out.
Leigh Leopards 21-man squad: Tesi Niu, Josh Charnley, Adam Cook, Lachlan Lam, Joe Ofahengaue, Robbie Mulhern, Frankie Halton, Owen Trout, Isaac Liu, Aaron Pene, Jacob Alick-Wiencke, Matt Davis, Liam Horne, Innes Senior, Gareth O’Brien, Jack Hughes, Ben McNamara, Louis Brogan, Ryan Brown, Will Brough
Toulouse Olympique 21-man squad: Olly Ashall-Bott, Reubenn Rennie, Benjamin Laguerre, Thomas Lacans, Jake Shorrocks, Brendan Hands, James Roumanos, Maxime Stefani, Mathieu Jussaume, Anthony Marion, Joe Cator, Rob Butler, Baptiste Rodriguez, Romeo Tropis, AJ Wallace, Ellis Gillam, Tyler Dupree, Luke Polselli, Hugo Garrigues, Cesar Rouge
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Super League team news as Huddersfield Giants welcome back trio
Huddersfield Giants may be currently without a permanent head coach, but they do have some key players returning from injury.
In what would turn out to be his final pre-match press conference last week, Luke Robinson revealed that as many as four players could be in line for a return, and some of those players have been named in this week’s 21-man squad.
Full-back Niall Evalds, as well as winger Adam Swift, half-back Adam Clune and centre Connor Wrench were the quartet tipped to make their returns, and three of those are set to do that.
Evalds, Clune and Wrench are all named, as is St Helens loanee Jacob Douglas, who joined the club from St Helens earlier this week.
The returnees come into the side in the place of Leeds trio Presley Cassell, Ned McCormack and Riley Lumb, all of whom have returned to the club following their one-week loan deal.
For the Warriors, they make two changes to their 21, with the first being Tom Forber dropping out after joining Castleford Tigers on loan. He is replaced by former St Helens man Jonny Vaughan.
Lukas Mason, son of former Super League forward, Keith, also makes the initial side in place of Nathan Lowe, who featured off the bench for Wigan last week.
Should either Vaughan or Mason make the 17, it would be a club and Super League debut for both men.
Wigan Warriors 21-man squad: Zach Eckersley, Adam Keighran, Liam Marshall, Harry Smith, Ethan Havard, Brad O’Neill, Luke Thompson, Junior Nsemba, Liam Farrell, Kaide Ellis, Sam Walters, Patrick Mago, Oliver Partington, Jack Farrimond, Sam Eseh Jr, Kian McDermott, Taylor Kerr, Lukas Mason, Jonny Vaughan, Noah Hodkinson, Dayon Sambou
Huddersfield Giants 21-man squad: Niall Evalds, Jacob Gagai, Taane Milne, Tui Lolohea, Adam Clune, Tristan Powell, Zac Woolford, Tom Burgess, Asher O’Donnell, Fenton Rogers, George King, Kieran Rush, Mathieu Cozza, Jack Billington, Chris Patolo, Jacob Algar, Tanguy Zenon, Alex Chippendale, Oliver Russell, Connor Wrench, Jacob Douglas
