yes his suspension is now over

That should help us out. We are missing Elima more though

Kearney

Kear

Lulia (if fit, otherwise Walker)

Purtell

Pryce (if fit, otherwise Ainscough)

Sammut

Gale

Kopzcak

L'Estrange

Scruton

Bateman (if fit, otherwise Addy)

Whitehead

Langley



Diskin

Donaldson

Joseph

Burgess



Kearney needs to become cemented in at FB



Kear and Pryce on the face of it look like 2 decent wingers, though Ainscough hasn't done much wrong and I wouldn't argue if he got a shot.

Purtell and Lulia will surely play centres all year whenever fit.



Sammut and Gale looks to me head and shoulders our best prospect of becoming a halfback combination. It may take time for them to gel and it wouldn't half help if they could play behind an actual pack, rather than powder puffs, but I wish Potter picks a combination and then sticks with it. All the best teams I have ever known have a definite and permanent starting halfback pairing.



Props - Kopczak is a shoo-in, Scruton is one of our few big lads, and we simply have to persist with him and get him up to speed. We absolutely should not drop him unless the task becomes impossible.



L'Estrange should start, and if he gets back to anything like, he will again be one of our top players and best attacking and organisational threats. Especially with Diskin on the bench to spell him.



Bateman and Whitehead looks a potential class young second row pairing. Doubt if Bateman can be fit but we live in hope.



I'd play Langley from the start as we may need some serious tackling and he provides that, and a bit of weight and muscle. I'd definitely start giving joseph a shot off the bench, the sort of visible enthusiasm he seems to have is in short supply for much of the game with us. Burgess and Donaldson, especially Burgess, contain true class, potentially, and as we are short of size, I hope to see Burgess fit enough to do reasonable length spells to share the workload. Him, Scruton, Kopczak and to some extent Langley should be able to win their share of collisions. It will make a helluva big difference us to have M'fuka and Elima available though.

Whats Crookes done wrong?

We have Thaler, who is imo the best SL referee.

Kearney

Kear

Purtell

Lulia (if fit, Pryce if not, Walker last resort)

Crookes

Sammut

Gale

Kopczak

Diskin

Hargreaves

Walker

Whitehead

Langley



Scruton

Joseph

Burgess

L'Estrange



I'd go with 5 props in an attempt to win the collision. Nothing against Donno but we need more size.

They should be used to it then.

Thaler is ok, Ganson is the best by a country mile though.

After last week, some Wire fans might disagree with you there.

Sykes

Pryce/Ainscough

Purtell

Lulia/Platt

kear

Kearney

Gale

Kopczak

L'estrange

Joseph

Hargreaves

Whitehead

Langley



Walker

Sammut

Scrutton

Diskin

Because he could have passed out side to Kear on a numbe of occasions but didn't. Maybe he wasn't comfortablet passing from left to right. I did think he looked strong though and tackled hard. Looks very dangerous attacking ahigh kick, hopefully we can utilise this unlie last year with Ah Van. One if the best wingers attacking a high kick to the corner and we never used it





I don;t tihnk Purtell is a natural centre and this will become clear when Lulia starts playing. It's been so long since we've had a proper centre we've forgotton what one looks like. Nero, Sykes, Platt, Whitehead.

Kearney needs dropping.