For me keeping burns fit is the key to a decent season,our best player IMO and leader on the pitch.

Burns is a 6, the best 6 we have at the club and not a 13.

burns is a 6 and will play against leeds at 6

I think burns will play 6 iv put him in my team at 6 but it's other options

So it's burns at 6 then

Why do people always want Burns to be a 13? We may as well put Weyman at fullback.

People seem to forget a loose forward these days is just another prop

Yer lol and I think it's as ridiculous as having weyman at FB is it

Loose forward's anything you want it to be. The more physical approach of an extra prop has just become fashionable, especially if you have a ball playing full-back. I like the idea of Hall, Burns & Keating together. Puts a bit more pressure on your big men but it would allow 4 big forwards on the bench, instead of using one of the spots on an interchance hooker who often only gets on for a few mins.

If you're a sheep it is...

Worthy of note that last years double winners employed a "normal" loose forward...

Most coachesdon't even refer to the positions as 'prop' and 'loose forward' anymore, they talk about all three of these roles making up the 'core' with the players in these positions more or less interchangeable.
I realise O'Loughlin is a bit more like a traditional 13 than a prop but he's still not quite in the same mould as Farrell or Sinfield when he played there.

Burns is an out and out 6.

I'd like to see Hall used from the bench spelling Hodgson and then the other forwards with Hodgson moving to the back row (13) . Give him a free role while he is on the pitch allow him to get into acting half/2nd receiver at times (ala cherry Evans and previously cooper cronk have done for Aus) David Hodgson should be on one of the wings. The forwards pretty much pick themselves, but James Green seems to have made it difficult not to pick him.

Leeds have the best set of outside backs in the league so I'd play Salter as he's our best defensive centre.

13 out the 14 super league coaches are sheep then and the team who have a normal loose forward had a prop there half the season due to injury

Not quite 13, but regardless , all those sheep won precisely zilch, and look at Wigans win ratio with O'Loughlin and without, fashion never lasts long and it is always those who swim against the tide who are at the front of things...

Don't get me wrong I'd love to see the old fashioned ball playing loose forward back it just seems it's been fazed out

My issue is not whether you play a prop or old fashioned ball playing loose forward at 13, it is the fact that people want to play Burns in that role. A role he has never played in his professional career either as a ball playing LF or as an extra prop. That is why I said we may as well put Weyman at fullback if we are to put Burns there.

I rest my case about Burns, all of you who said he should play were proved wrong, he wasnt ready, he's average at best. Nothing he tried today came off.

At least he did try a few things

How is he ever going to get match fit if he doesn't play?

Gateshead

preferably till his contract is up.

Not a fan then?

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is it that obvious? ??

2 good games last season and some think he's top drawer

I thought burns was the real deal? According to zod he's the best overseas half in SL

so based on one game, his first of the season, after a long lay off and operation, against a very well drilled leeds side, he's average at best?? Maybe on the day he was, but which players weren't on that showing.

glad your not picking the team.....