What do we think it will look like? Will Potter play it safe and make as few changes as possible or will he shake us up a bit .. my personal view is he will stick with the tried and tested as much as possible (not saying I agree with it). SO when we have a full compliment who is gonna miss out ? Clough? Flannery? Moore? Roby? we seem to be blessed with number in the back row ...

POTTER OUT !

1 - Lomax

2 - Gardner

3 - Gidley

4 - Soliola

5 - Meli

6 - Pryce

7 - Lon....

Eastmond

8 - Graham

9 - Cunningham

10 - Fozzard

11 - Puletua

12 - Wilkin

13 - Roby



14 - Moore

15 - Fa'asavalu

16 - Clough

17 - Flannery



Leaves out Wheeler, Wellens and Hargreaves that I can think of. We simply can't stumble through another season with no pace in the backs. If Wellens is at fullback all year again it's a massive disadvantage for us. Even him playing centre would be a boost.

No way will he drop Wellens.

1. Wellens

2. Wheeler

3. Gidley

4. Pryce

5. Meli

6. Moore

7. Eastmond

8. Fozzard

9. Cunningham

10. Graham

11. Soliola

12. Puletua

13. Wilkin



14. Roby

15. Clough

16. Flannery

17. Faasavalu



I think it will be similar to last season, but the addition of Moore is going to create the biggest dilemma. Stuck him in at stand off with Pryce at centre, probably not the best option but it's something to try, the more probable line-up will be using Roby at loose forward and Moore rotating with Cunningham.

If you keep playing Wellens at FB you will really suffer at times. I don't see why some people think he will be a good backrower either, I have seen nothing at all to convince me of this. He should play centre and he will be solid, Gidley can create everything on the other side.

While he lacks the pace and dynamism of a Slater or, in SL terms, a Webb, he's still as safe as houses at the back. We don't lose anything by keeping him there for the time being, whereas moving him to centre would make our attack completely one-sided. We were predictable enough last season without adding that to our problems.



I agree with you on the back row thing though - nothing to indicate that he'd set the world on fire in the pack. I'd be happy to see him carry on at full back, but give Lomax a start there for 5-10 games (a bit like we've done with Eastmond and Long). If it turns out Lomax is too good to be left out, then so be it.

Not sure what Potter will go with but I'd like to see:



Wellens

Lomax

Gidley

Wheeler

Meli

Pryce

Eastmond

Fozzard

Cunningham

Graham

Soliola

Wilkin

Roby



Flannery/Clough

Fa'asavalu

Moore

Puletua



Still leaves the likes of Hargreaves, Gardner, Flannery/Clough, Ashurst, Dixon sweating on a shirt and gives us a bit of pace in the backline as well.



Would guess Potter will go with:



Wellens

Gardner

Gidley

Soliola

Meli

Pryce

Eastmond

Fozzard

Cunningham

Graham

Flannery

Puletua

Wilkin



Roby

Moore

Fa'asavalu

Clough

He doesnt have the balls to mix it up it'll be a side with little disruption



Wellens

Gardner

Gidley

Soliola

Meli

Pryce

Eastmond

Graham

Cunningham

Puletua

Wilkin

Flannery

Roby



Moore

Clough

Fa'asavalu

Fozzard

Personally I'd go with :



Wellens

Gardner

Gidley

Soliola

Meli

Pryce

Eastmond

Graham

Cunningham

Puletua

Flannary

Wilkin

Roby



Moore

Clough

Fozzard

Fa'asavalu

Wellens

Gardner

Gidley

Soliola

Meli

Pryce

Eastmond

Graham

Cunningham (capt)

Puletua

Wilkin

Flannery

Roby



Bench



Moore

Clough

Fozzard

Fa'asavalu

1. Wello

2. Armstrong

3. Gidley

4. Soliola / Pryce

5. Meli

6. Pryce / Wheeler

7. Eastmond

8. Fozzard

9. KC

10 Graham

11 Puletua

12 Flannery

13 Wilkin



14 Roby

15 Maurie

16 Hargreaves

17 Moore / Clough



I'd like to see some games Pryce in the centres with Soliola in 2nd row..

Also KC given rest every 4 games with Moore 1st choice 9.

This coaching lark is easy





Oh yeah... No Gardner?? = No mistakes

<cough> Meli ... <cough>

Mine would be



1. Wellens/Lomax

2. Gardner

3. Gidley

4. Wheeler

5. Meli

6. Pryce

7. Eastmond

8. Graham

9. Moore

10. Fozzard

11. Soliola

12. Puletua

13. Wilkin



14. Roby

15. Hargreaves

16. Fa'asavalau

17. Clough