THERE are five changes to the Toulouse Olympique 21-man squad from the one that was narrowly defeated by Catalans Dragons in the French derby almost a fortnight ago.

Paul Ulberg replaces Benjamin Laguerre, whilst Joe Cator, Romeo Tropis, Tyler Dupree, Hugo Garrigues drop out.

Baptiste Rodriguez, Henry O’Kane, Mathieu Pons and Victor Collin come in for Sylvain Houles’ side.

Meanwhile, captain Elliot Minchella returns to the Hull KR squad after a minor hamstring injury, with Tom Whitehead dropping out.

SQUADS

Toulouse: 1 Olly Ashall-Bott, 2 Paul Ulberg, 3 Reubenn Rennie, 6 Thomas Lacans, 7 Jake Shorrocks, 8 Lambert Belmas, 9 Brendan Hands, 10 James Roumanos, 11 Maxime Stefani, 12 Mathieu Jussaume, 13 Anthony Marion, 17 Rob Butler, 18 Baptiste Rodriguez, 20 AJ Wallace, 21 Ellis Gillam, 22 Henry O’Kane, 25 Luke Polselli, 28 Mathieu Pons, 29 Cesar Rouge, 30 Tiaki Chan

Hull KR: 2 Tom Davies, 3 Peta Hiku, 4 Oliver Gildart, 5 Joe Burgess, 6 Mikey Lewis, 7 Tyrone May, 8 Sauaso Sue, 9 Jez Litten, 10 Tom Amone, 11 Dean Hadley, 12 James Batchelor, 13 Elliot Minchella, 14 Jack Broadbent, 15 Sam Luckley, 16 Jai Whitbread, 17 Rhyse Martin, 18 Jack Brown, 19 Karl Lawton, 20 Jordan Dezaria, 21 Noah Booth, 22 Bill Leyland

Referee: Aaron Moore

STATS

All previous meetings:
Hull KR 22, Toulouse 16 (SLR22, 4/8/22)
Toulouse 28, Hull KR 6 (SLR17, 2/7/22)
Toulouse 24, Hull KR 28 (SLR9, 18/4/22)
Toulouse 34, Hull KR 23 (S8Q-R6, 22/9/18)
Hull KR 30, Toulouse 31 (ChR22, 16/7/17)
Toulouse 14, Hull KR 6 (ChR11, 17/4/17)
Hull KR 44, Toulouse 0 (CCR3, 28/1/01)

Super League summary
Toulouse won 1
Hull KR won 2
Toulouse highest score: 28-6 (H, 2022) (also widest margin)
Hull KR highest score: 28-24 (A, 2022) (Widest margin: 22-16, H, 2022)

JAKE SHORROCKS needs one appearance to reach 150 for his career.
– 73 for Toulouse Olympique (2023-2026)
– 30 for Newcastle Thunder (2021-2022)
– 28 for Wigan Warriors (2016-2017, 2019-2020)
– 4 for Swinton Lions (2016, 2019, dual-registration)
– 11 for Salford Red Devils (2018, loan)
– 3 for Workington Town (2015, dual-registration)

RHYSE MARTIN needs eight points to reach 1,500 for his career.
– 166 for Hull KR (2025-2026)
– 1,040 for Leeds Rhinos (2019-2024)
– 114 for Canterbury Bulldogs (2018-2019)
– 172 for Papua New Guinea (2014-2015, 2017-2019, 2022-2025)
(0 for Combined Nations All Stars, 2022)