Noble waits on injuries to three players
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Your support makes all the difference.The Bradford coach, Brian Noble, has three remaining injury doubts to resolve before naming his Challenge Cup final team tomorrow.
The second rower Daniel Gartner is recovering from a calf injury, the full-back Michael Withers is struggling with a stomach strain, while Scott Naylor is trying to overcome a sore hamstring to stake a claim in the centres.
"I'm hopeful that two of them will be ready and Joe Vagana should be fit as well," said Noble, who will tell the players his team tonight, after they travel down to Cardiff.
He has dismissed suspicions in the Leeds camp that the Great Britain prop, Stuart Fielden, could yet make a miraculous recovery from knee ligament damage. Just to make doubly sure, Fielden has been suspended for two matches for a ungentlemanly conduct after raising his knees in the tackle in the game against Hull on Good Friday in which he suffered his injury.
Noble is also reluctant to accept Leeds' contention that they are the underdogs at the Millennium Stadium.
"They are unbeaten this season so I think they deserve to be favourites," he said. "Matt Diskin looks like playing, although I don't think Matt Adamson will. It will be a big risk if he does."
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