Who do you think PV will pick for our 1st game

1) Luke Patten
2) Broughton
3) Gleeson
4) Moon
5) Williams
6) Smith
7) Holdsworth
James
9) Godwin
10) Boyle
11) Adamson
12) Anderson
13) Wild
14) The all new Feka
15) Nero
16) Gledhill
17) Howarth

Roll on next Saturday i say.

Can't figure out why Broughton has got the number 2 jersey when he plays on the left (number 5 ) wing. Same for Williams

I'd say applehead is very close to what it'll be, only difference I think will be in the 2nd rows. I'd go with

1 - Patten
2 - Broughton
3 - Gleeson
4 - Moon
5 - Williams
6 - Holdsworth
7 - Smith
21 - James
9 - Godwin
10 - Boyle
11 - Ashurst
12 - McPherson
13 - Wild

17 - Feka
20 - Gledhill
24 - Howarth
27 - Anderson

Has Boyle done anything in pre-season to deserve a place in the first team?

He always looks like our slowest, least athletic and least explosive prop. Not a bad player, dependable and fairly reliable, just not quite good enough to be worthy a SL starting spot. Good back up player though.

Jewitt, Neal and Sidlow really need to pull their socks up, if we're ever going to be a force is SL.

Boyle has always been better playing from the bench, but doesn't like to, the reason he left cas is because he wanted to be a starting prop.

5 ex cas players in your team, be good to see williams again, did a good job for us in 2007.

There will be a few late calls with the cas team as jackson, snitch and walker are all coming back from injury and are in a race against time to be fit. Assuming they are fit we will look something like this

owen
dixon
arundel
griffen/thompson
clare
chase
orr
jackson
milner
emmitt
ferres
holmes
mcgoldrick

jones/snitch/davies
clark
massey
walker

Patten
Broughton
Moon
Gleeson
Williams
Holdsworth
Smith
James
Godwin
Boyle
Mcpherson
Anderson
Wild

Feka
Ashurst
Neal (This Spot for me could be any of Sidlow , Gledhill , Jewitt or Neal , but he gets the nod )
Howarth (Impressed)

Boyle look's unfit and overweight in my eyes. He's very vulnerable in defence any clever halfback, winger or fullback who takes him on will beat him every time he looks very sluggish in the defensive line.

so which starting props & which two interchange props would you use given this analysis?

rlIf the national press is to be believedrl

Well having seen Boyle play twice this pre-season i think he's gone backwards, but to be honest i've never rated him at SL level anyway, he looks vulnerable, i watched his game closely in the Halifax game to which he was struggling keeping up with the pace of the defensive line leaving holes, a decent back would notice this and attack him, he offers nothing when hitting the ball up in attack and i've never seen any venom or controlled aggression in his game where he wins collision or flattens the opposition player when defending.

To answer your question, i think Feka and James are our 2 best props, the other 2 props i'd use is probably Sidlow the size of him he should be breaking players in half. The other available prop addition is questionable jewitt, boyle, are simply not good enough. It might be worth giving Ben Gledhill a few games he's a signing i haven't seen much of surely he can't be worse than Jewitt and Boyle.

Therefore i'd use Feka and James as much as i could, i'd definately start and finish with the pair of them within reason.

Why should you care as you wont be going to the game anyway.

1) Patten
2) Broughton
3) Moon
4) Gleeson
5) Williams
6) Holdsworth
7) Smith
James
9) Godwin
10)Jewitt
11) Mcpherson
12) Nero
13) Wild

14) Feka
15) Sidlow
16) Howarth
17)Anderson


Providing everyone is fit..

If he's fit you'd need Ashurst in there, shows we have a decent second row when have Anderson, Neal, McPherson, Ashurst, Nero, Adamson to chose from.

For me there are 3 Cas players to close down - 6.7 and 13 - likely Chase, Orr & Hudson - if we do that job I think we will win.