Funny that. If true that would be the second young player to suffer defensively as a result of playing alongside Meli.

I just cannot wait until that man leaves our club.

I have to agree with Saints fan on this one. Everyone who has played next to Meli has looked exposed in defense.

Lets face it Meli is all attack.

With out Talau that side has been exposed vastly more than numerous combinations on the other wing.

We don't half miss Willie Talau, good player he was.

1. Makinson
2. Gardner
3. Turner
4. Jones
5. Meli
6. Wheeler
7. Gaskell
8. Puletua
9. Roby
10. Laffranchi
11. Soliola
12. Manu
13. Wilkin

14. Flanagan
15. LMS
16. Clough
17. Lomax (Change to give Roby a rest)

Left in 2008 and still hasn't been replaced.

Might be able to see an interesting comparison of positional performance if Foster and Makinson are both playing Full back.

Foster only plays fullback as stand in, like Makinson. He's back on the wing at Bradford now. Didn't do a bad job at the weekend.

I get the feeling that Jamie Foster is going to enjoy racking the points up against us next weekend. I just hope he doesn't play all that well, I'm not sure I could take Foster lording it up after Bradford put 40 on us.

Foster only played on the wing against Cas because Michael Platt was injured. He is Bradford's first choice full back this year with Brett Kearney playing #6.

If Platt is fit for next next week, Foster will play #1, if not, he will play on the wing.

Platt is out for 12 week.......If we have no injuries from the Cas game I would presume Kearney at 1 Foster on the wing.

Tbh Kearney will do more damage at FB than Foster :/ Should be an interesting game

Lee Gaskell
Tommy Makinson
Jordan Turner
Josh Jones
Francis Meli
Jon Wilkin
Jonny Lomax
Tony Puletua
James Roby
Anthony Laffranchi
Sia Soliola
Willie Manu
Mark Flanagan

LMS
Joe Greenwood
Alex Walmsley
Ade Gardner

I'll go with this, but take another forward on the bench instead of Gardner.

if Wilkin is going to do the distribution and kicking, then we may as well start him in the halves and add an effective forward to the squad. I guess it would be a choice between Hand, Wlaker and Forster.

7. Jonny Lomax
21. Tommy Makison
3. Jordan Turner
19. Josh Jones
5. Francis Meli
12. Jon Wilkin
20. Lee Gaskell
11. Tony Puletua
9. James Roby
14. Anthony Laffranchi
4. Sia Soliola
13. Willie Manu
15. Mark Flanagan

2. Ade Gardner
10. Louie McCarthy Scarsbrook
24. Joe Greenwood
25. Alex Walmsley

No he's not.



Platt won't be back, he looks like being out for weeks/months. We also picked up two more injuries so going into our 4th game we are already struggling to put a team together, it could be an embarrassing score line.

Embarrasing for Who???