Whitehaven coach James Coyle will have to make a late team selection ahead of tomorrow’s crunch showdown against Oldham.

Too many of his squad have been suffering from knocks and have not trained this week.

“We will name 19 players but which of them actually play will depend on late fitness decisions,” said Coyle.

Craig Calvert and Grant Gore are likely to miss out again after pulling-up in last Friday’s training session but the third member of the trio affected by a late cry-off, Stephen Fox, will be ready to resume.

French players Louis Jouffret and Ugo Perez have not trained so far because of injuries picked-up at Featherstone, although both insist they will be able to resume.

Whitehaven’s situation is virtually the reverse of Oldham, who have made a loan signing and seen their squad strengthened by players returning from injury.

The Roughyeds have signed Keiron Gill, a young centre from Castleford Tigers, on a month’s loan and he will go straight into Sunday’s squad.

Peter Carey, one of Oldham’s assistant coaches, had Gill under his wing when both were at Salford Red Devils in the player’s formative years.

Oldham coach Scott Naylor said: “Keiron can play centre and stand-off. We needed to strengthen that area of the squad and he ticks the boxes.”

Naylor will also have dual-reg personnel available.

He added: “We’ll have to play well to beat Whitehaven, who I believe are in a false position and should be higher up the table.”

Whitehaven and Oldham are among six clubs in the relegation scrap – two go down – and their respective fixtures feature a string of dog-eat-dog matches to come before they each play another seven games in the Championship Shield.