But for me it's the centre/wing partnership that's key.

Even though Riley has bagged loads of tries arguably Atkins/King on left and Bridge/Hicks on the right could be seen as our strongest back line.

I think I'm right in saying that only once this season have those 4 plus Riley/Mathers been fit and available for selection and it was Riley who was left out (he might have been sub though).

that's what i was thinking... he was up there as one of our players of the year before his injury.. smith will find a way of integrating him back into the team again.

welcome back bridgey, 20pts, walking in a bridgey wonderland.

Chris Bridge was excellent last night: confident, dangerous, fast, good goal kicking. What a change for the club having to work out which of an abundance of quality backs to leave out match-to-match. It wasn't so long ago when an injury meant we had to play second-rowers at centre. What is stopping this being a problem is the obvious 'squad mentality' about Wire these days. It seems that all the players ( except maybe Mathers ) acknowledge that they won't be first-choice every game, but that they all contribute to the season's success.

Brilliant. MOTM by quite a distance.

Think Bridge could play at Loose Forward from the start with Ben Harrison able to fill in as a prop, loose forward or second row from the bench. This giving the Lord Tony Smith the option to move Bridge around at either the halves of at centre. What a great problem to have.