taking into acount o'meley,fitzgibbon,cusack and berrigan, that nearly makes up for a third of an nrl winning pack......and boasts 47 kangaroo caps and 11 grand finals between them..not bad going that!!!

o'meley berrigan cusack
luaki fitzgibbon
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who would everyones first choice 13 be? washbrook,whiting,radford??

I would think Luaki will play in the front row with Manu in the 2nd Row.

abit spoilt for choice next season upfront arent we...as it stands we have a good mix in the front/second rows....not to mention loose man

With that pack i would love to see Whiting have a go at loose forward.

I think:-

Dowes, Berro, O'Meley
Fitzgibbon, Radford
Washbrook

Subs: Yak, Lauaki, Manu, Houghton/Lee

I would have Manu in from the start and Burnett on the bench and no Radford, I would also have Berro at 6 with Lee at starting hooker.

Dowes
Berrigan
Cusack
Fitzgibbon
Tickle (Burnett)
Washbrook

Lauaki
O'Meley
Manu
Houghton

Cooke

My personal choice would be:

Dowes
Berrigan
O'Meley
Tickle
Fitzgibbon
Washbrook

Bench:

Lauaki
Cusack
Manu
Houghton

or, Houghton at 9 and Berro at 6, Lee on bench.

I think that we have a good set of forwards for next season.

Burnett deserves his place in the back row imo. Having Radders in the team will make us weaker and fook up the bench and pack imo. As he should be nowhere near either of them. Yet it's almost certain he will start next season.

completely agree. With who we have signed for next season our pack will be big enough by far to have a creative loose man and draw us away from the negative tactic of 3rd prop.

FWIW radford should go this year as he is 2nd or even 3rd choice in the positions he plays IMO and would benefit from having his wages of the cap allowing more potential signings

I would go with....

Cusack Berro Lauaki
Burnett fitzgibbon
Washbrook

O'meley, dowes, Manu, Houghton.

Lauaki is carvells replacement, and he was the starting prop mostly with dowes.

Not a chance we should start with Lauaki. He is one of the best player in the world to bring off the bench.

cant be many teams that have a pack with that much experiance can there?? even leeds cant match that according to my calculations...

maybe coming into the 2nd row he is! Prop he is unproven.

Not having a dig but how have you worked that out?

You obviously did not read the first post of this thread by Berro's best mate.

Berrigan 13 Tests caps, 13 State of Origin games

Fitzgibbon 19 Test caps, 11 SoO games

O'Meley 15 Test caps, 10 SoO games

(1) Washbrook.
(2) Whiting

I would doubt very much that it will be Radford. I recon Agar has only used him there to compensate a very weak pack. We won't need him or any other forward there next season.

Im wondering if there are more international caps in the Leeds pack?

There could well be. But it's one thing getting and England/GB cap and another getting a kangaroos cap, would you agree?

Probably, with Buderus and Peacock.

State of Origin are seen as the ultimate in RL down under though.

regardless of wether he plays in the front or back row. For me he'd be on the bench and I wouldn't say he is unproven at prop.

As it stands:

Tansey 0
Calderwood 9
Briscoe 0 (but in elite squad)
Yeaman 5
Raynor 3
Horne 15
Long 20
O'Meley 15
Berrigan 13
Lauaki 6
Fitzgibbon 19
Manu 6
Washbrook 0

111 international appearances - not too shabby.

Well with all that experience in the pack Im assuming alot may believe you will have the strongest set of forwards in the league next season?

Hasn't Thorman got a cap as well?