I think this the hardest side to pick for a fair few seasons, partly due to the fact that I haven't seen that many of the new recruits play. With that in mind my team would be:

1. Mullaney
2. Uiasele
3. Purtell
4. Blythe
5. Williams
6. Gaskell
7. Brook/New signing
8. Sidlow
9. O'Brien
10. Samir
11. Ferguson
12. Blythe
13. Addy

14. Conroy
15. Clough
16. Flemming
17. Olbison

Obviously we will never have everybody fit and I fully expect to see Addy back in the halves for part of the season but the strength in depth in the pack is something that needed to be addressed. Fingers crossed we can roll a few teams over next season and bring back the feel good factor!

When was the last time we had a debate about our squad that had this much competition for places?! I'm happy we're going into a new season with more than 2 recognised props!

My 17 for 2015.

1. Mullaney
2. Uaisele
3. Blythe
4. Purtell
5. Williams
6. Gaskell
7. Brook
8. Offerdahl
9. O'Brien
10. Sidlow
11. Ferguson
12. Pitts
13. Addy
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14. Mellor
15. Philippe Baille
16. Tahraoui
17. Clough

I can't think of more than a couple of players who are shoo-ins for the team.

Lots of the players seem to be at a similar level and I hope that we have levelled up with the squad. We won't know until we've seen them play, but the indications are that this is already a stronger squad than this year, not even taking in to account the lower league.

1. Ulugia
2. Williams
3. Blythe
4. Purtell
5. Uaisele


6. Gaskell

7. Mullaney


8. Sidlow

9. O'Brien
10. Clough

11. Pitts

12. Olbison

13. Peterson


14. Tahraoui
15. Davies

16. Halafihi
17. Ferguson

A lot of unknowns in the squad but we seem to have real depth at prop; I left out Fleming and Offerdahl who could have both easily been selected for the above 17. I do however expect regular squad rotation. We have real impact props in Davies and Tahraoui and I expect both to be used off the bench. All we need now is a new first choice scrum-half and the squad looks in very good shape to challenge for promotion.

Since when did irrelevant facts like that stop anyone on here from deciding their favoured line up and then defending that choice to the death??

You have to remember that most of our stars of the last decade (RHP, HP, Hape, Les, etc) came over with not many of us having known of them. Look at what they achieved and in RHPs case is still achieving.

Its really nice having these discussions about our ''29'' man squad. AND SEVEN props wowwwwww!!!!!!

COYB!!!!!