1. Kearney
2. Ainscough
3. Lulia
4. Platt
5. Purtell
6. Briggs
7. Gale
8. Lynch
9. Diskin
10. Hargreaves
11. Elima
12. Whitehead
13. Langley

Bench - L'Estrange, Burgess, Sammut, Scruton

Sammut is quite versatile which is good but he's a hard man to run off given that he rarely knows what he is going to do before he does it. In some ways he reminds me of Dave Watson who was the same. In such cases these players are better in positions where they have the freedom to do their own thing like fullback. What our backline needs is quality ball coming at them, not sure Sammut can provide that.

A modern SH needs the ability to step and go as well as pass. If all he does is throw it wide (Deacon in his last years) the defence can afford to slide early. Sammut takes the line on and makes defenders hold their ground. Briggs has a nice long pass and a decent kicking game. Ideally you'd be looking for Sammut to suck defenders to the ruck area and Briggs to find Lulia with half a yard to work in.

Great if you can get Sammut to follow instructions, having played against him I can confirm how quick he is on his feet and how good he is taking the line on. However I think Gale will be most likely to figure regularly especially if he's our only goalkicker.

Are you suggesting they have the same stimulation?

I'm not sure if Sammut's into blues harmonica.