MARTIN Gleeson has highlighted a player considered to be a huge threat in the Castleford Tigers ranks ahead of the two teams’ meeting at the Mend-A-Hose Jungle on Friday, kick-off 8pm.

And he is a familiar face as a former Wire forward, and instrumental in a lot of Tigers’ most dangerous attacking play.

Cas may be on a run of four games without a win, and out of the running for the play-offs, but they have caused a few upsets against higher-placed sides recently – namely winning at St Helens and also against Catalans Dragons.

“If you give them enough ball, they might hurt you,” said Wolves’ first-team coach Gleeson.

“They’ve got some quality in their team. Joe Westerman’s been around a while but he’s still as good a ball-playing middle that you’ll find so we’ve really got to be on our guard against him.

“It’s a short pitch at Cas so you can always seem to be in attacking opportunities.

“We’re under no illusions that they can play, so we’ve got to focus on what we know gets us the wins because it’s going to be tough.”

The Wire have made only one change to the 21-man squad that was named for the Leeds Rhinos game at the weekend, with Max Wood replacing the injured Matt Dufty.

Wolves 21: Matty Ashton, John Bateman, Jordy Crowther, Ben Currie, Josh Drinkwater, James Harrison, Adam Holroyd, Toby King, Arron Lindop, Zane Musgrove, Matty Nicholson, Joe Philbin, Sam Powell, Rodrick Tai, Cai Taylor-Wray, Josh Thewlis, Paul Vaughan, Danny Walker, George Williams, Max Wood, Luke Yates.

Jenson Windley, Luke Hooley and Fletcher Rooney return to the Castleford squad, but Muizz Mustapha is unavailable due to suspension while George Lawler and Nixon Put also miss out.