Fev mate and England starts with our u19's this year .

Counting lads born from 1987 onwards, I get 13 plus Luke Briscoe is 14.
They will all be 30 or under in 2017, with 3 /4 others who will be 31 /32.

Who are your 7 definites

I was working on ability, retirements, leaving, and youngster being taken over by another.

Therefore was guessing.

Briscoe
Hall
Watkins
Moon
Foster
Singleton
Ward

With Achurch and Ablett as possibles.

Delaney and Aiton are same age as Ablett, they could well be there along with Sutcliffe and BJB. Hardaker if he doesn't go to Aus.

I looked at the 2009 squad and there are only 12 there now of that squad, so there is a turnover. The players that left included Webb, Senior, Donald, Smith, Ali, Buderus, Diskin, Burgess who all would have made the match day 17

Foster, Minns and Duckworth have joined London on loan.

Good experience for the three of them. Adversity will be character building.

They any good?

Who has the most potential?

How long are they on loan for?

The full season

Good stuff hopefully all three will get plenty of game time.

Concerned about them working with Long. Hope that is offset by good experience.

I wouldn't be worried. He'll only last about 4 weeks. Standard.

So last season due to injuries we had to use Moore, Vickery, Baldwinson, McShane, Foster, Duckworth, Minns, and Keninhorst. All eight won't be playing for us next season.

We have added Briscoe and Aiton, and a dual reg from Hunselt who is out for most of this year.

Considering the missed matches for the likes of Kylie, Delaney, Bailey are only going to get worse, and we all I think agree we should not be flogging a 37 year old workhorse. We could end up considerably short for this coming season.

At least we will have experience for 2015, but the bad planning is starting to show a bit for this coming year.

Well a couple of pages back Frosties says that those on loan Foster, Minns, Duckworth, Keinhorst (and L.Briscoe) can be recalled if needed. Going by the London board they seem to be overloading on backs so doubt it'd be too hard to recall Duckworth and Minns.

McShane and Vickery have been replaced with better options in Aiton and T.Briscoe.

That leaves Moore, who people agreed over the previous season had been given games that Singleton should've had. Also Baldwinson who hardly played many minutes in his appearance and you could say we have Minchella still here (as well as a hopefully fit Stevie Ward).

Their was also 6 other players in the Boxing Day game that haven't made their debuts yet (similar to Sutcliffe, Foster, Baldwinson and Duckworth in last years game)......we could always try them or another Academy lad if need be.

As for knowing that injuries for Leuluai, Bailey and Delaney ARE going to get worst. No, you don't know that at all, it's a guess that may or may not come true.

Doesn't that only apply to monthly loans? where the first month you can't recall but can recall thereafter? I thought they were all on season long loans?




I agree. And hopefully will be the case. However, it doesn't stop us being short as a squad currently looking at it. The likelyhood is that Mcdermott will first take the option of getting the most out of the tried and tested.




I think it is a very fair assumption. Let' see who is right. You will be perfectly free to pick me up on it if wrong later in the season.