I know where you're coming from.

I think he's a 1.

I think he'll show over time that he is exactly that, perhaps not to the class of the folk that you mention, but the best '1.' in the competition currently, and that's what you have to strive to be.

JWP, the thing with RL as you know is you will always get differing views, you will also get fans that appreciate differnt styles of player. I was spoilt growing up as i got to see the likes of Blake, Davies, Bateman and Ropati etc, we didn`t always have the best of teams back then but we certainly had some great moments from the above 3.

I`m not having a go at Chris Bridge in any way, i think he`s a solid centre thats had to put up with quite a bit injury wise, he deserves to have a long run in the team in the one regular position because its hard for any player to improve when your being chopped and changed around so much and then having a couple of bad injuries on top of that, better coaching should help him as well.

Its better viewing him after a full season in the team in a regular position, him and Riley have done great so far on the right and they both look solid in defence.

nine pages on this i can see it becoming 15 tomorrow when the committe reach a decision!

Which you think will be...

ps can JWP and Rob please create their own 'we love bridge' thread instead of derailing this one.

i think they will both recieve a one game ban but dnt agree with moz being banned as he was commited and was just one of those things. However i'm not sure about Carvells you could say it was accedental but then again you could say it was careless and stupid.

Think it's ludicrous to say we are not significantly weakened, probably close to terminally, if we lose them both. Cooper and Wood will do well as starting props but we WOULD be far, far weaker than normal at the interchange. If Solomona is fit, then he and Westwood would presumably be the rotating props as I doubt we'd bring Adam Neal in as well. If that happens and we have Higham as one of the other interchanges, then we'd still have Grix and Vinnie or McCarthy as other replacements. Not a bad pack and replacements, but significantly weaker than normal. If they are banned for two weeks, then they'd miss Huddersfield which might actually be worse for us....

Aslong as both don't get banned, I'll be quite pleased.

I'd take that now.

yea, everyone wants to see moz smash eorl again

I just hope Gareth Carvell has got something else lined up for his defence tomorow because his usual reply of "innit" or "innit just" won`t go down too well at Red Hall

Don't get me wrong, It'll be bad if both are banned, but in the scheme of things, i'm not too bothered. If we have to take on Wigan with two recognised props, well, we're up against it, I'd move Louis to prop, and I'd tell him to stop thinking he has ball skills, we don't want to see them. I'd remind him that his most effective game last season was Wigan at the HJ, when he ran straight, hard lines, and was an aggresive menace all night.

Getting back the Morley & Carvell thing, yeah it's sad if they get banned, but given their previous for injuries etc, it could be worse. You could be talking on this thread about missing them for weeks & months, season over before it's started etc, losing them for a week or two, well, it's just a bit annoying, that's all.

I have resigned myself to the fact they will both be banned anything different will then be a massive bonus.

Exactly what i was thinking. Great minds and all that.

Good call that

Morley should get banned Carvell shouldnt

I think its odds on that both will be banned for the wigan game.

Now they've been cited i think they'll both get a ban. Just makes victory over Wigan that more sweeter beating them with the 2nd string

Looking at previous hearings involving Gaz and Moz.

Carvell 9 hearings no bans.
Moz 15 hearings 2 bans.

Looking at that you'd imagine we'll be very unlucky to have both bannned for the weekends game.

I also doubt that the Rfl will have the kahuna's to ban both our starting props ahead of such a big game, (maybe wishful thinking).

If both are banned then Moving Harrison from Loose would be our best bet and give Grix a game at 13.

Same, but I am a pessimist anyway.

I reckon the decision will tell us whether the Wigan Mafia have taken control of the RFL again.

How do you work that out?

I would say the opposite.

Silly boy

I just hope Smith and Co drag up every case over the past two years of similar charges and tackles. Hopefully finding one that or two that were worse and went unpunished.

Wasn't Hame Lukaki's a forearm/elbow on Leon Pryce the same as Carvell's?

Saying that, Jackson was stooping into the tackle on Carvell when contact was made, where as Pryce was stood upright and is 6'4 and copped it straight in the face from what looked like the same fend as Carvell.