Me too good call. Give them some pace and power to worry about instead of worrying about inexperience and defence.

Didn't go but I heard washy was struggling fitness wise with playing hooker at cas so he needs time on the bench

The way I would go, too.

so you tell me youre leaving out the squiggly teddybear and u think u kno about rugby

Thought Manu looked ok at centre against Cas, and could be devestating running out wide.
Although did hear this week that Manu might not be able to play, as his wife is already a week overdue and if shes not popped it out by Saturday he wont be travelling down. (He missed the their first childs birth due to rugby apparantly)
Lets hope its just a rumour though, or take a few hot curries round to their house.

is this for deffo?

It's hutchie, what do you think?

We have all been saying that for 2 years now. At what point will he be moved inside. This could be as good a time as any to start.

As for Washy at 6 no. Friendlies have seen Turner there with Washy backing up Danny. Lets stick to that please.

Lyne and Sharpe wings. Briscoe and Yeaman centres. Lets face it with the exception of Horne this is currently a full strength side. Phelps to come but when we can't say.

When is the squad announced or have I missed it.

2pm. Always 48 hours before a game.

I wrote

Just stick with the back 7 that played at Castleford last week

with Manu at centre.

FC Callum wrote
So bench of Lynn \washbrook Dowes and Moa then?

Jake The Peg wrote
No back row rotation, Genuis. Are you Agar's technical advisor?

With 4 fit props in the squad we have Fitz Tickle Luaki (spelling) and Westerman in the back 3.

Am I due an apology

You got lucky with radford being back

Good response Jake.

You used "Radford" and"'lucky" the same sentence.

C,MON U ULL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

suprised you think that.

We still don't know if Radford is gunna play, but Cunningham could be on the bench instead of Lyne, so sorry

Strange, that would make no sense at all, rather have Manu there!

Can only think it's down to a bit of extra pace or maybe defensive qualities. Either way I'd rather have briscoe there and risk lynne on the wing

Likewise. I'm still not convinced by Agar's selections at all.

Why bring in a youngster in his natural position when you can move 1/2 the team around.

To be fair to agar this is tanseys fault not his. With tansey playing I would have been quite confident but with all the moves we'll make as a result I can't see beyond a rovers win

While the immediate root cause is Tansey leaving I'm not confident of Agar making the best of what he's got available. My biggest reservations about him are actually more to do with things like selection and basic skills rather than tactics or playing style.

Oh well - guess we'll see soon enough.

You mean you've noticed that our seasoned professionals can't actually pass the ball properly?

Or support the ball carrier. Or make dummy runs. Or run good angles most of the time. That's why our 'playing style' is way down my list of concerns - I'd be happy if we played any style consistently and well.

Who knows - maybe we've addressed these glaring deficiencies during the closed season and I'm worrying about nothing.

You should be on the stage

With all the talk of Briscoe in the centres again (despite being an England winger) can I just ask once and for all (as I genuinly cant remember) did he actually play centre in the academy or wing?

I remember him playing in a friendly at Dewsbury, he played centre and scored a couple of tries if my memory serves me right

in sharp, briscoe, yeamen, lynne we have a set of great potential players with youth and speed very exciting for the future, personally id of gone with manu at centre but im fully confident in that backline and hopefully they might actually see the ball in attacking posistions and if lynne has a good solid game i can see him been on the wing for a good set of games at leaste untill phelps gets here anyway