Willie Peters' first selection headache is upon him. You only have to look at the 21-man squad that he has been able to name for the Challenge Cup clash with York Knights to realise the extent of the quality he has at his fingertips this year.

As long as he has a fully fit squad, Peters will have to leave out some seriously good players from his matchday squad this year. That in itself will provide plenty of challenges behind the scenes this year but it also ensures there is competition for places and that can only be a good thing for the players vying for selection and performances on the pitch.

But who gets the nod and who doesn't this week? This is the first real indicator of Peters' current thinking heading into the Super League opener with Castleford Tigers and there are a number of tricky decisions to be made.

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The easy answer is to go with the 17 players who occupy those squad numbers. The four beyond that; Jack Brown, Jack Broadbent, Kelepi Tanginoa and Bill Leyland, all played in Amsterdam and have therefore had their chance to impress.

Whether it's as simple as that is hard to tell. There is an obvious need to get match sharpness into all the players ahead of the season and in that sense, it would make sense if Peters goes down that route.

But we don't see what happens day-to-day in training and whether performances in the Netherlands have promoted any of those four players into contention.

Of the four, you'd argue that Jack Brown is the most likely to get the nod. With James Batchelor, Dean Hadley and Rhyse Martin ready to go, you'd think Tanginoa won't squeeze his way in here and the same goes for Bill Leyland, despite a promising performance against York, as Jez Litten and Micky McIlorum will get their chance. It's a similar scenario for Jack Broadbent.

Where Brown potentially has a chance is the fact that Sam Luckley has been recovering from wrist surgery through most of the off-season and after a strong pre-season, you just wonder whether he might be above the Newcastle native at this very moment in time. Luckley has been a near ever-present under Willie Peters, impressing regularly from the bench. The injury is no fault of his own, he played through the pain last year, but the harsh reality is that it has allowed someone like Brown to go after his spot. It will be interesting to see how that plays out.

The rest of the team picks itself, though who starts and who comes off the bench in the pack will be very interesting.

You'd suspect that Batchelor and Martin will start which would mean Hadley is used in the front-row. It leaves Peters with five 'middles' in Sauaso Sue, Jared Waerea-Hargreaves, Jai Whitbread, Hadley and one of Luckley or Brown. Only two will start and it will be interesting to see the combinations Peters tries out in that middle unit on Friday.

It's hard to see Waerea-Hargreaves not starting and Hadley's versatility, you would think, makes him more of an ideal interchange. Brown and Luckley have both been deployed from the bench on the whole so you'd suspect the final starting position goes to either Sue or Whitbread, who both provide the industry and defensive solidity needed from a starting prop. We're giving Sue the nod.

Hull KR's predicted team to face York Knights: Niall Evalds, Tom Davies, Peta Hiku, Oliver Gildart, Joe Burgess, Mikey Lewis, Tyrone May, Sauaso Sue, Micky McIlorum, Jared Waerea-Hargreaves, James Batchelor, Rhyse Martin, Elliot Minchella. Subs: Jez Litten, Dean Hadley, Jai Whitbread, Jack Brown.