Good to see Bridgey back earlier than expected, as Smith thought his season was over. Having been held back 1 or 2 weeks and not playing for a fair chunk of the season I'm guessing he will be keen as mustard to put out a good display. Although considering the brilliant form of our backline at the moment, its going to take something special for him to force his way onto the field for the big cruncher in the play-offs versus Saints.

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).

bridge as a sub and vinnie to miss out i think at saints or we could put bridge at LF and use harrison as a prop/second row which may be the preffered option. dont have a clue who playind between clarke and higham. clarke since he has come back from injuries has been in great form and i dont think he has played better.

TS plays a fluid system so even if Bridge were named at 13 we could expect to see him pop up at centre in both attack and defence.

Huddersfield at the Galpharm in the cup saw Riley come on as a 2nd half sub. For me Chris Bridge will continue to miss out unless someone gets injured.

oh ye with short memories, bridge and hicks was a dynamite combination early in the season, as was atkins and king.

i think saturday did cover comething though, king is superb at mopping up a lot of the traffic opposition teams send over at briers, i can't say whether bridge is any better or worse, but matt's a tower of strength.

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.