Ideally, injury-free, what would your Saints 17 be ?

1. Wellens

2. Gardner

3. Gidley

4. Soliola

5. Meli

6. Pryce

7. Eastmond

10. Graham

9. Cunningham

11. Puletua

12. Wilkin

13. Flannary

14. Roby



8. Fozzard

16. Moore

17. Clough

23. Fa'asavalu

Wellens

2. Gardner

3. Gidley

4. Soliola

5. Meli

6. Pryce

7. Eastmond

10. Graham

9. Cunningham

11. fozzard

12. Wilkin

13. puletua

14. flannery



8. roby

16. Moore

17. Clough

23. Fa'asavalu

1 Wellens/ With Lomax to deputise quite regulary.

2 Gardner

3 Gidley

4 Wheeler

5 Meli

6 Pryce

7 Eastmond

8 Fozzard

9 Moore

10 Graham

11 Soliola

12 Wilkin

13 Roby



14 Puletua

15 Cunningham

16 Clough

17 Maurie



Id play around with the starting pack depending on the size of the oppo pack.

I expect Potter will play Soliola in the centre and have Flannery in the pack.

Wellens

Gardner

Gidley

Soliola

Meli

Pryce

Eastmond

Graham

Cunningham

Fozzard

Flannery

Puletua/Clough

Wilkin



Roby

Moore/Hargreaves

Puletua/Clough

Fa'asavalu



On the VT, i chose Hargreaves over Moore on the bench, however, thinking about it, i think we could afford to have both Roby and Moore on the bench, although it depends who we play. Potter hints on the Saints website that Roby can cover anywhere in the back row as well as obviously hooker and then stand off, so he would be a decent bet on the bench, with Moore coming on at hooker, it would give us plenty of options. When playing teams that are bigger however, then i'd leave Moore out and play Hargreaves to give us an extra out and out prop forward. I'd rather see Puletua in the second row too, with Clough possibly moving into a more prop forward position.

1 - Lomax

2 - Gardner



3 - Gidley

4 - Wheeler

5 - Meli



6 - Pryce

7 - Eastmond

8 - Graham

9 - Cunningham

10 - Fozzard

11 - Wilkin

12 - Soliola

13 - Roby



14 - Moore

15 - Fa'asavalu

16 - Puletua

17 - Clough

24 lomax

2 gardner

3 gidley

1 wellens

5 meli

6 pryce

7 eastmond

8 fozzard

9 cunningham

10 graham

4 soliola

12 wilkin

14 roby



subs

11 puletaua

13 flannery

16 moore

17 clough

Come on, we have Sheriffe on the wing, you've got nothing to complain about!

The Sheriffe wouldn't cost us two Grand Finals with his antics though would he. I'd accept two Matt Callands, things are that bad.

its not that they're bad that winds me up, in the age of salary cap you cant have stars everywhere. Its the fact they're both on internationals' wages!

Wellens

lomax

gidley

pryce

meli

wheeler

eastmond

graham

Cunningham

fozzard

soliola

wilkin

roby



fa'asavalu

puletua

Moore

clough

I think having two inexperienced half backs would be a tad on the daft side when you've got a player of Leon Pryce's quality in the side. I'm sure Harry will have Wheeler alternating at 6 whenever we get the luxury of trying a few things out.