Anyone a little worried about Scotty switching wings this season?

are we going to lose in attack but gain in deffence?

Will not having an established centre playing inside him not bring out the full side of his game?

discussed last week mate on the celtic game thread. it was decided bluey didn't want watkins and hall together due to lack of experience

which for this week though? Hall and Watkins or Hall and Gibson?

i think gibson will play on the right and watkins on the left.as for the wingers who knows? could switch during the game IMO

With everyone fit we will go with scotty and smithy and senior and hall with broughton,gibson and watkins in reserve!
It makes sense not to have two youg uns together and if smithy can improve his distibution in the centre position i'm sure scotty will get plenty of trys this year and we also have ali on that side aswell.

Gibson is a left centre and Watkins is a right centre (as far as coming through the academy is concerned) so I reckon it will stay is it was last week with Gibson being a straight swap for Keith.

The Celtic game was Watkins' first start at right centre, Hall's first start on the left wing and Ablett's first start at loose in the SL Reg Rds.

So far Gibson has appeared 9 times on the left and 6 times on the right.

In SL yes but im on about where they played in academy. The above were due mainly to injuries by 1st team players at the time.

Out of interest TVOC how many times has McGuire played SH now and what were the results in these games? Out of memory we seemed to have done well while he has covered that position.

Wouldn't worry to much as he has already scored!

But having two youngsters together like Hall and Watkins wouldn't work. Watkins did look a bit at sea in defence against celtic!

McGuire starting at scrum half:

Pl 17, Won 15, Drawn 1, Lost 1.

Cheers, you're a star as normal.

Not a bad record that. I thought it was high.

average then!

Speaking of average, take a look at Scott Donald's [url=http://www.superleague.co.uk/statistics_player.php?hs1=2009&hp1=1096&hs2=2009&hp2=2918&stat=tries&season=2009stat's[/url from last Friday and compare them to Ryan Hall's.

I was sure he was a left centre!!

It doesn't make any difference.

regards,

Clinton Toopi

Im just trying to remember which way they were attacking

But if you remeber the match against Bulls last season in Cardiff we had same threequarters but Senior moved to right centre leaving Scotty on left wing. That works better for me. Hoping to see Gibson given a run alongside Watkins in centres.

Same here and hopefully another step towards full match fitness and sharpness for him!

Mind you, that's only one game and Celtic would surely prefer to run at the one with least experience.
Also, the metres are racked up quickly with a couple of clear runs.
Nonetheless, most illuminating.

Yup. I elluded to this in my 'review' of the players. I just thought he could have looked for more work. He didn't get much ball, so could have got to acting half (or first receiver) when we fielded kicks to have a scamper. That said he was solid and no doubt we will see what he can really do as the season progresses.

will his interception not count as about 40 metres?

they also kicked more to Hall, which is understandable.

Even so, take that out of the equation, and he still made more than 100m more that the great Scott. Most of that will account for his long break in the second half, which he passed to McGuire, who got ankle tapped (top effort that) IIRC.

I'd say yes and yes.

aye, was some ankle tap, i thought we were in there.

That was from JJB's break wasn't it? Nothing to do with Hall or Donald's stats.