1. Kearney
2. Purtell
3. Lulia
4. Walker
5. Kear
6. Sammut
7. Gale
8. Scruton
9. L'Estrange
10. Kopzac
11. Langley
12. Whitehead
13. Donaldson

14. Diskin
15. Hargreaves
16. Burgess
17. Joseph

And here lies half the problem. Complacency sets in because we have too many players who look like they know they are un-droppable:-

-Kearney
-Scruton
-Hargreaves
-Langley

THey are all senior members of the team who are driving the culture of the team / club

or we could go with.

1. Kear
2. Ainscough
3. Purtell
4. Lulia
5. Crookes
6. Kearney
7. Gale
8. Langley
9. L'Estrange
10. Kopczak
11. Whitehead
12. Donaldson
13. Addy

14. Diskin
15. Burgess
16. Joseph
17. Hargreaves/Scruton/Ball

BB2011 I realise that your final 17 is a bit tongue in cheek though Kear does look a more all round full back than Kearney, but is Ball ready? much as I would like to see him in action, if hes only going to play 15 minutes that would not be worth it from the teams perspective.

I know Ball probably isn't ready I put him in as a joke

Is Sykes injured or dropped?

So the report in today's T&A article suggests Lulia and Pryce STILL won't be fit for the Cas game.
How can Lulia go from hoping to pass a last minute fitness test for the Catalns game last Friday, to still being unavailable for a game 10 days later?
Someone at the club is telling us a few porkies here.

he might well be fit, just keeping the opposition guessing. we did this all last season, no reason to suggest this year would be different.

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Pryce's recovery rate will be inversely proportional to Bulls lack of success.

TBF we do need to use every trick in the book.

Well Cas coach Slackjaw is a past master at that!

These are two Coachs who were both at Stains and know how successful that Clubs Style and Philosophy is.
We know how MP has struggled to change the way the Bulls have played albeit with a changing Squad and too many injuries.
It will be interesting to see how Slackjaw copes with changing the Cas one, though I don't think he will be able to do too much and will do a decent job, given that the Cas job is such that he can only improve things, MP has a weight of expectation on his shoulders and will struggle to get the Squad into a winning mentality
Both Coachs man management are clearly different in the way they approach the game, so it will be intersting to see who comes out on top this season

I think its fine for Donaldson to say this. He isnt criticising, but it is a little early to be booing imo.