Leigh Centurions have announced their 19 man squad ahead of Thursday’s Kingstone Press Championship Round 7 game against Swinton Lions at LSV (8pm).

Former Australian international centre Willie Tonga is included in the squad and will earn Heritage Number 1411 if he makes his debut.

Loan players Richard Owen, Lewis Charnock and Richard Whiting are available again after missing the Ladbrokes Challenge Cup tie against Workington Town. Liam Hood is unavailable following the terms of his recent move from Swinton.

Issue no6 of the Centurion matchday magazine will be on sale on Thursday, priced at £2.50, packed with all the usual features and photographs.

The Leigh Centurions squad is:
4 Willie Tonga; 5 Liam Kay; 6 Martyn Ridyard; 8 Fuifui Moimoi; 10 Dayne Weston; 11 Harrison Hansen; 13 Cory Paterson; 14 Micky Higham; 16 Reni Maitua; 19 Lewis Foster; 20 Sam Hopkins; 21 Andrew Dixon; 24 Tom Armstrong; 26 Lee Smith; 27 Richard Whiting; 28 Lewis Charnock; 29 Jake Emmitt; 30 Richard Owen; 31 Ben Reynolds.

Big chance for Richard Owen to make an impact if Willie is in this time.Strong squad.No Hock,Acton,Spencer and Hood claused.

Higson & Pownall missing too.

Is Pownall fit?

He did go off injured on Saturday atomic so he's probably out with that or it could just be squad rotation.

Be good to see Stewart Littler back playing at the LSV all be it for the opposition! Would like to see us really focus on our defence, would expect us to score plenty of points against Swinton but I think the aim should be to try to keep their score down as much as possible. Would be better preparation for tougher games I think than just running trys in. Although who knows what could happen on the day.

Plenty of former Leythers in the squad for Swinton. Be interesting to see the likes of Nash, Nicholson,Thornley, Lloyd and Littler again.

Well I'm pleased with that. Wanted to see us focus on defence today & think we defended very well against a Swinton side who never gave up & were happy to throw the ball about. Very difficult to pick a man of the match as the whole team played together very well. Also pleased to see us get more repeat sets, time was we'd go for broke trying to force a try when we could have got the ball back & had another 6 goes. Thought discipline was good too against a Swinton team trying to get niggley. Do think some refs though are still going off our (undeserved) reputation from last season, a few times now this year I've seen us put in good hard tackles across the chest & be done for high tackle while the opposition time & time again slap our players in the face and get away with it. It all seems to be coming together now, Jukesy is getting the hang of his tactics & game plan, the injured players are coming back & everything is all coming good. Come on Leythers, looking forward to a nice trip to Workington on Monday, love the Easter fixtures.

Swinton decided to 'rough it up' in the 2nd half, constant "head shots", and then we started making mistakes when we had the ball, then for some reason (yet again) we got constantly penalised for 'minor offences' !! But Swinton behaved impeccably, apart from 'neck/head' tackles.....

He's not afraid to 'rotate' his players either, and seems willing to trust them all to do their jobs. Good on him!

Josh Barlow got away with murder last night

Mmmm makes a change seeing this coming from Leigh not about them