Only you have made that comparison though, albeit in slightly broken English, so that's OK. It is not "exactly the same thing." If it were, you would never be able to use recent form to pick a team unless you played the same opposition 2 weeks in a row. Only a person with no capacity for lateral thought would think it was.

If the coach's view of the best 17 were selected for the last game, regardless of who it was against, and all members of that team performed to the standard expected, what cause is there to drop them just because the opposition is better? None of them were selected from outside the 1st team squad after all.

Otherwise you might suggest dropping someone who did the job in the last game, against whatever opposition, in favour of somebody who didn't. Why does your way make any more sense oh wise one?

Gives Leeds the edge now imo.

Massive loss for us.

Will be a very, very close match.

Your pack are very physical, they will take it to us all day long.

Why have you started using this alias again after leaving it dormant for two years?

Anyone who feels the need to post under an alias for the purposes of taking the pi55 out of Lawrie is below Fekkwitt level and hardly worthy of the benefit of my knowledge.

Yes I am a fekwit for suggesting playing the same side two games in a row after a very good performance. Im obviously crazy.

If the same team that played against Wakey had played against Fev then yes I would.

Eh?

Lets see if he makes a fool of himself a bit more first.

Clearly he didn't have the cahones to tackle the alpha male under his true identity.

Mwah ha ha ha ha.

Gareth, are you self-nicknaming again?

i hope i'm proved wrong but i think it's a big mistake not using thackery.
wakey were there for the taking, saints won't be. as i say, i hope smith proves me wrong but i'm not happy about it

Whilst thackray provides good go forward in short stints, he'll be a liability when it comes to playoff rugby.

His handling isn't reliable enough and he's prone to give away a few too many penalties.

Errors need to be at a minimum therefore i think it's a clever decision from tactician Tony Smith to drop him.

didn't do much wrong in the 2005 cup final

Mistake leaving Thackray out of the 18..........more to offer than either Ablett or Kirke in my opinion.

Given that Tony Smith has rather more information to base his team selection on.......