Don't get too excited ! He's an old man now and done nowt all season at Craven Park ,

I think there's a few candidates to be honest. I hadn't really considered Walsh though, I'd imagine Roby and Wilkin were both more likely.

It'll be interesting to see what Brown does in terms of taking the captaincy off Wellens. Surely when everyone is fit there is simply no place for Wellens in the 17, and you cant really justify having your captain sat in the stands.

It wouldn't surprise me to see us go down the route of having a club captain and team captain. It's a bit silly for me but it wouldn't surprise me.

Why are people still suggesting Wello isn't guaranteed to be in the 17? He will be in it, every single week and he'll be captain.

Unfortunately there's a very good chance you're right.

But with:

1.Lomax
6.Burns
7.Walsh
13.Wilkin
14.Hohaia

where could he play Wellens without looking like a complete and utter numpty?

Lomax
Makinson Percival Jones Swift
Burns Walsh
Amor Roby Walmsley
LMS Vea
Turner

Hohaia Thompson Masoe Richards/ Beaumont/ New Signing

???

You've forgot Wilkin and Flanagan.

I haven't, I've left them out. Who would you put them ahead of?

Realistically, Wilkin will be at 13 ahead of Turner I'd imagine, but I just think Turner could offer more with a consistent run there. What we couldn't afford to do is have Wilkin in the second row and Turner at 13 as there's just not enough size then.

Flanaghan just doesn't fit into any sort of permanent role, and if we're serious about challenging again, we need players who offer more threat with the ball. Good backup if he's willing to play that role again though...

You're insane if you'd include Beaumont before Wilkin.

Turner has probably had some of his better games in the middle recently to be fair to him but with Walsh, Lomax, Burns & Wilkin in the side, we're well covered for play makers and will be reliant on Turner playing at Centre, with Percival as the other option as we don't really have too many options there.

When we say step it up, lets not con ourselves we need a full squad. Jones is a very useful player to have good enough in most positions and therefore key to any squad. He can hold his own in the pack and switch to centre more than competently if need be