Early for a next week team thread, however joel and FAZ back in contention.

2 / 3 more weeks till Pat is available

Loads of options available. Here is my pick:

Sam
Goulding
Joel
Carmont
Amos
Finch
Tommy
Coley
Micky Mac
Preccy
H
Hoffman
Lockers

Lima
Mossop
Tuson
Faz

18TH Man - Charnley
19th Man - MARSH

I would go with that side except Charnley on the bench instead of Tuson. Hansen, Hoffman and Faz are all capable of playing 80 minutes and Joel can move into the pack and do 80 minutes too if necessary so I don't see the need to have two back rows on the bench. Charnley would offer cover and allow Leuluai to move to hooker through either O'Loughlin or Sam moving to 6.

Mine would be

Sam
Charnley
Joel
Carmont
Roberts
Finch
Deacon
Coley
Tommy
Prescott
H
Hoff
Lockers

Lima
Mossop
Faz
Mickey

Robert at FB
Sam back to hb with finch please. This experiment needs to stop
Lulu and mac spelling 9

Faz on bench

Tricky 18th man is us

Roberts
Goulding
Marsh
Carmont
Charnley
Finch
Sam
Prescott
McIlorum
Coley
Hansen
Hoffman
O'Louglin

Tommy
Lima
Mossop
JT/Farrell

Finch not ready, 2 weeks in the 21s for me, id be tempted to give Lima a game out the first team aswell.

Correct!!

Putting it simply we cant afford the luxury of playing our most creative player at FB. Especially when you look at the lack of quality we have in the halves. In addition opposition teams have worked us out, they watch Sam chime into the line and nail him. We need a half back partnership based on our best two half backs (Sam & Finch), and we need to persevere with it. Tommy must play hooker and be spelled with Mickey..he is not, and never will be, a 7. All this moving the 6, 7, 9 and 13 around is disrupting the team and leads to a lack of cohision and attacking flare - its also doing my head in!

Time to sort it out Wigan.

will there still be tickets left for this on monday

1. Roberts
2. Goulding
3. Joel tomkins
4. Carmont
5. Charnley
6. Sam tomkins
7. Finch
8. Coley
9. Leuluai
10. Prescott
11. Hoffman
12. Hansen
13. O'loughlin

14. Lima
15. Mossop
16. Farrell
17. Mcillorum

Finch is clearly not ready yet.

Roberts at 1.
Sam at 6.
Charnley at centre instead of Marsh.
Farrell shoud play! We missed him.

I think there'll still be tickets left for this come Friday at 8pm. Can't see it selling out so paying on gate shouldn't be an issue and would imagine there's still plenty of our allocation left at the ticket office prior to them being sent back on thrusday presumably.

Totally disagree re finch

I'd rather get them from Wigan too paranoid take two kids on a coach hoping that we can pay on gate lol

Tomkins
Goulding
Charnley
Carmont
Roberts
Finch
Leuluai
Prescott
McIlorum
Coley
Hansen
Hoffman
O'Loughlin

Lima
Deacon
Mossop
Farrell

I personally am not a fan of Joel at centre as a long term prospect but I think it might be a good bet for this Friday to deal with Leeds' left side.

You wont have to worry about our left side it is far too slow and as far as our right side goes well you wont have much trouble getting through that one either.
Our only hope is you are on a downer after losing to Wire which I doubt will be the case.

Any news on Deacs?

Not sure he would make the team next week anyway to be honest, get your feet up Deacs!

I've changed my mind a few times since saturday but i think we need to put an experienced team out myself we wont be able to win the big matches ie. Challenge cup or playoffs games with young lads in the backs imo. They need bringing in slowly over the next year or two. Just look how long its took Goulding to look comfortable/capable in the first team. Although in the forwards its alot tougher physically its much harder for young players to come into the backs due to how highlighted mistakes are and how often they result in a try. Charnley and Marsh should for me only play in selected games were the pressure isnt as great. With that in mind i'd go with...

S Tomkins
Goulding
J Tomkins
Carmont
Roberts
Finch
Leuleuai
Coley
McLlorum
Prescott
Hoffman
Hansen
O'Loughlin

Deacon/Charnley
Mossop
Lima
Farrell

J.Tomkins for me needs to play at centre due to the Gleeson situation. Although its not his best position and i'd much prefer him in the pack we need someone with experience at centre who can cope against the big opposoition at times. TBH i dont fancy having Senior up against Charnley or Marsh and Joel for me will do a much better job.

Leeds currently struggling away at Wakey. I think they are mid-way through the second half and were losing 6-4 but have just scored. Certainly not performing that well though. viewtopic.php?f=17&t=488078

Leeds currently struggling away at Wakey. I think they are mid-way through the second half and were losing 6-4 but have just scored. Certainly not performing that well though. viewtopic.php?f=17&t=488078

Quote ="MattyB"Leeds currently struggling away at Wakey. I think they are mid-way through the second half and were losing 6-4 but have just scored. Certainly not performing that well though. viewtopic.php?f=17&t=488078'" I've listened to the match via BBC Radio Leeds, and to say Leeds have been poor would be an understatement. There saving grace has been the fact that even though Wakey have played well there still a poor side. Whilst we were defensively poor against Wire, it's my prediction that we'll see the defense that we showed against Huddersfield rear it's head on Friday night against Leeds. Having seen Leeds a fair bit this year, the key to beating them for me would be stopping their offloading game. Stop that and we'll stop Leeds IMO.

Quote ="MattyB"Leeds currently struggling away at Wakey. I think they are mid-way through the second half and were losing 6-4 but have just scored. Certainly not performing that well though. viewtopic.php?f=17&t=488078'" I've listened to the match via BBC Radio Leeds, and to say Leeds have been poor would be an understatement. There saving grace has been the fact that even though Wakey have played well there still a poor side. Whilst we were defensively poor against Wire, it's my prediction that we'll see the defense that we showed against Huddersfield rear it's head on Friday night against Leeds. Having seen Leeds a fair bit this year, the key to beating them for me would be stopping their offloading game. Stop that and we'll stop Leeds IMO.

They are running away with it now 22-6. Leeds fans think the result is papering over the cracks.

I think the Leeds fans are right. Wakey gave it their best shot but tired badly in the last twenty, which is when Leeds capitalized. Leeds were well under the kosh in the first half, but Wakey just weren't good enough to do anything with it.

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x2 If Gleeson was playing Id be tempted to play Marsh outside him.

Put Roberts on Joels wing and Charnley on Carmonts.