Castleford v Warrington: Teams
Second-placed Warrington welcome back Michael Monaghan for Monday's visit to The Jungle to face Castleford.
Last Updated: 23/03/08 2:40pm
Second-placed Warrington welcome back Michael Monaghan for Monday's visit to The Jungle to face Castleford.
The scrum-half returns after a calf injury kept him out of Friday's 30-14 win over Huddersfield.
Forward Mike Cooper is also included in coach Paul Cullen's 19-man squad.
Meanwhile, Castleford coach Terry Matterson has called up 18-year-old prop Nathan Massey.
Winger Michael Wainwright also has an outside chance of returning from injury.
Matterson is currently missing Stuart Donlan, Michael Shenton, Tom Haberecht and Scott Moore.
And, ahead of Easter Monday's match, Matterson said that the Tigers current injury woes were not being helped by the busy holiday programme.
"I don't think I'm on my own when I say this is not what rugby league is all about," Matterson said.
"Our game is a pretty heavy body contact sport and, to back up three days and then have to do it again, I think you are going to see it affect the quality of the games on Monday."
Two years ago the Tigers lost 64-6 home to Warrington, a result that came three days after they lost at Wakefield.
Castleford repeated the former result on Good Friday, with Matterson desperately hoping history is not about to repeat itself.
"We've got an opportunity to atone for that," he added. "It doesn't get any easier against Warrington but that's how it is. We will dust ourselves off and come back."
Castleford 19-man squad: Dorn, Fletcher, McGoldrick, Dixon, Owen, Thackeray, Sherwin, Leafa, Henderson, Korkidas, Guttenbeil, Clayton, Westerman, Higgins, Huby, Lupton, Boyle, Massey, Wainwright.
Warrington 19-man squad: Reardon, Hicks, M. Gleeson, King, Penny, Briers, Monaghan, Morley, Clarke, Rauhihi, L. Anderson, Westwood, V. Anderson, M. Gleeson, Parker, Johnson, Pickersgill, Bracek, Cooper.