rememember reardons a doubt too. If he doesnt play then I'd expect wardle to be used on wing. In which case when southernwood comes on we could drop sykes to FB and move halley to wing to allow us to bring wardle off and keep as many experienced players on pitch as possible. whichever way we do it I wouldnt pair southernwood with sykes. We need to keep kearney in the halves for creativity which sykes has shown no signs off.

be very surprised if southernwood starts. hopefully he'll get a decent stint both halves but going on macca's past history off debuting youngsters wouldnt be surprised if he only gets 10 mins towards back end of 2nd half.

Think its 4 clubs { rhinos) scholaship

my point is baggage

connor murphy just tweeted the following



'Cain starts cos Wardle misses out through injury. Menzies moves to centre, BK to full back, Halley to wing, Godwin to loose forward.'

Not bad, not bad at all I'd say!



Some nice touches, some good, accurate passes and he looks to have a fair amount of agility too.

I'd be tempted to keep him in the squad for next week after that showing.

Agreed. Got more confident as the game went on. Some nice touches. Looks a bit slight but as he grows that'll sort itself out.

Very sound debut I thought. He showed a few nice touches and didn't make any glaring errors. In fact I think all our young guys stood up well today.

Went well.



I'd let him play SH until the end of the season tbh.

Thought he did well.



Some nice, crisp, sharp touches and he didn't really look too much out off place, albeit that he was "protected" from the heavy traffic.



He's there. Let him play on I say.

I think the team protected him well. It sounds like it was a late injury to Wardle that gave him his chance and he took it well. He'll make errors in attack and defence but he may as well make them this season and he'll improve because of the experience. Doubt he'll make the cut next week with Langley and Platt back but you never know.

They did protect him well and if they continue that then there's no reason he shuoldn't keep playing.





Langley and Platt back should push Worrincy and Godwin to the bench so it's likely that Addy and Olbison will be back in the u20s rather than Southernwood.



If he can keep doing a decent job then there's no reason to move L'Estrange (definitely not if he's playing like that) or Kearney out of their best position.

I hate to say i told you so but I did.



He didn't look out of place and as the game went on grew in confidence. You could see he was really nervous at first but he did well on debut. Keep him at 7 I say.



See what I mean about playing players in their right positions instead of playing musical chairs all the time. Kearney at 1, Sykes at 6, a 7 at 7 and L'estrange at 9 and we did well on the creative front. Halley is a winger as well!



Inspired selection of Wagga (my favourite current Bulls player) at 13.