Sorry if there is already a post on this but was just interested to see what people’s views are on what they see as our strongest line up next season, IMO I would like to see us line up as follows:

FB - Shaul
W - Faraimo
C - Tuimavave
C - Fonua
W - Naulago
SO - Kelly
SH - Sneyd
LF - Sao
SR - Jones
SR - Ma’u
PR - Taylor
HK - Houghton
PR - Satae
INT - Connor, Griffin, Bowden, Savelio

Also I think the return of a full reserve grade league next season will do wonders for the likes of Lane, Fash and Matongo - hopefully now a lot of our fringe players will get minutes every week against a better class of opposition.

Swift and Fonua wingers - Tui and Conner centres

FB - Shaul
W - Fonua
C - Tuimavave
C - Connor
W - Naulago
SO - Kelly
SH - Sneyd
PR - Taylor
HK - Houghton
PR - Bowden
SR - Jones
SR - Ma’u
LF - Sao
INT - Griffin, Satae, Savelio, Ellis, /Matongo/Brown/Bienek/Cator/ After a few rounds I would be looking to put Jordan Johnstone on the bench or resting Houghton

Faraimo needs to improve a lot for me. Too many rocks and not enough diamonds

Faraimo replaced for me, awful brain farts and poor defensively.

Get the Ratu, Connor and Kelly partnership firing again.

Sao at loose forward unless our props aren't performing.

And Houghton needs a big improvement in form, otherwise put the much better in attack Johnstone in.

Swift will play, he’s been signed for 1st team duty not reserve grade. He could have had that in a better environment at Saints.

Shaul
Swift
connor
Carlos
Fonua
Kelly
Sneyd
Bowden
Houghton
Taylor
Jones
Man'u
Sao

Satae
Griffin
Savlio
Johnstone

ratu has got to be in

No he won't tbh. Feel for him. But at time of his signing there was no indication of Ratu shooting as far as he did and Fonua wasn't on the radar

Connor

Fariamo
Carlos
Fonua
Ratu

Kelly
Sneyd

Taylor
Houghton
Bowden
Jones
Mau
Sao

Griffin
Savelio
Satea
Matongo

Can't see this tbh. I like Fonua on the wing more but I like the balance of attack more in my team..and Shaul could thrive next yr in fairness and I'm not generally a Shaul basher. But this yr his support prowess left him which left him with 0 attributes as a contributing fullback in attack at least.
Probably in the league's worst 4 or 5..miles n miles off the best in the comp
I like the idea of Jake filtering in and spraying balls out wide hitting wingers on the chest from 10 out etc and adding a kick game from there. Think we'd be a completely different team for opposition to work out

If that’s the case, I’m sure he’s asked for assurances of 1st team duty, if not forthcoming surely he’d ask to be released as he can get 1st team time at a lot of other clubs, especially Toronto if they come up.

This team all day for me.

We all know Fash will be in there somewhere, regardless of wether he should be!

That's nonsense, he was there on merit, took this chance when we had injuries.

Wouldn’t be surprised if we never see Swift in the black and white jumper.

I think people will be surprised by Swift, bags of pace, but also makes lots of meters, with Ratu probably leaving after a year, it makes sense to keep him and play him (as long as his form warrants it).

He would be in my 13 next season. Faraimo needs to improve his defence and handling Ratu is still a bit raw, scored some unbelievable trys, but is still naive in attack and defence.

To be honest I don't think either Faraimo nor Ratu should be shoe ins for next season on the wing. Whilst Ratu has certainly done well in his short time in league and has scored some great tries he has also been in the not so great category too towards the end of the season. Faraimo needs to work on his defence in particular staying on his wing and way too many times has he come in far too much and left massive holes and overlaps when all he needed do was stay put on the wing.

For me Swift has been wrongly bagged and I would probably have in the 17 ahead of both currently. I'd also rather see Connor back in at centre with either Swift or Ratu and have Mahe on the wing with Carlos as the centre.

An awful lot of work is needed on our passing and speed of play to maximise the potential of the outside backs. We also need to improve line speed massively in both defence and attack.

Jones, Sau, Griffin ans Savelio should be devasting on the edges and even more so combining them with the backs we have but it we need much quicker speed to our play. Which should leave us with greater attacking options and not solely reliant on Sneyd kick to the corner, a bit bit of Kelly magic or the forwards to try and barge over.

Good post, BUUUUUT, who’s going to put all the changes into place?

Yes please to this!!

We've been asking for the same for two seasons, Lee wpnt change, I hope he proves me wrong.

Ratu has some brain farts of his own IMO and shouldnt be a given as a starter but he would make my side due to the fact he does seem a quick learner. What I would like to see but wont happen.

Connor
Ratu
Carlos
Fonua
Swift
Kelly
Sneyd
Taylor
Houghton
Satae
Jones
Mau
Sao

Johnstone
Bowden
Saveillo
Griffin

If they are allowed to play on the edge.
We all saw what happened to Pritchard.
It will be a shame if Radford uses the second rows down the middle again as Griffin could have real impact next season if left wide and introduced off the bench at the right times

I’m not really concerned about the majority of the starting line up next season since we’ve signed some great players. The big one for me is Connor to FB. It would be a master stroke IMO

Your squad may just be good enough to squeeze into the top 5 but nowhere near enough to trouble the big boys, your weak mentality, poor coach and atrocious attack means you won’t be anywhere near the grand final for a long time

Thanks for caring so much................

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