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Just been speaking to King of The Shed and lay him a little challenge to him... so thought I'd put it on here.

A challenge for when you are bored.

We currently have a squad of 27 players.... Now lets just say you win the lottery... a £48 million EuroMillions Jackpot. Of course... most of us would be looking at investing in the club. Now let's say you have the power to buy your own squad.

So.... to make it interesting... we'll add some realism.

You can't decimate one teams squad (ie... picking 4 players from Wigan isn't going to happen). You also can't raid the NRL unless you see fit to get rid of a quota player and replace with another one.

So.... the idea is.... you can pick one player from each of the remaining SL sides. Meaning.... you are picking 13 players to add to the squad.

With that... you are retaining 14 of our current squad... and you MUST keep find 14 who you would keep.

You also need to think about the balance of the squad.

Forget worrying about the salary cap for this one.... There is always a way around it as Warrington have proven to us.... But you have to keep within the quota rules (and if you really want to go to town... the home grown rules too)

So.... to summarise... Keep 14 of the current squad... Use the next 13 spaces with one player from each SL side... keep within the overseas quota.

I'm still working on mine, but I'll post when I've finished.

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Cracking question -

in no positional order whatsoever (!) the 14 players I'd keep are -

Patten (quota)
Broughton
Owen
Clay
Ratchford
Smith
Holdsworth (quota)
Jewitt
Godwin
Neal
Boyle
Adamson
Wild
Sneyd

The 14 I'm bringing in are (again in no order)

Widdop
K Watkins
J Foster
T Briscoe
B Marshall (quota for Henry)
S Tomkins
Graham
Cam Smith (quota, spare place)
S Burgess
Morley
Westwood
Ellis
Roby
SBW (quota for Cashmere) (Yes I also no he doesn't play RL atm)

My 17 (A few square pegs round hole jobbies but....)

Patten (fb)
Broughton (w)
Foster (c)
Watkins (c)
Briscoe (w)
Tomkins (sh)
Marshall (so)
Graham (pf)
C Smith (h)
Morley (pf)
SBW (sr)
Burgess (sr)
Ellis (lf)

Roby
Widdop
Wild
Westwood

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Quote: MikeTommo "Cracking question -

in no positional order whatsoever (!) the 14 players I'd keep are -

Patten (quota)
Broughton
Owen
Clay
Ratchford
Smith
Holdsworth (quota)
Jewitt
Godwin
Neal
Boyle
Adamson
Wild
Sneyd

The 14 I'm bringing in are (again in no order)

Widdop
K Watkins
J Foster
T Briscoe
B Marshall (quota for Henry)
S Tomkins
Graham
Cam Smith (quota, spare place)
S Burgess
Morley
Westwood
Ellis
Roby
SBW (quota for Cashmere) (Yes I also no he doesn't play RL atm)

My 17 (A few square pegs round hole jobbies but....)

Patten (fb)
Broughton (w)
Foster (c)
Watkins (c)
Briscoe (w)
Tomkins (sh)
Marshall (so)
Graham (pf)
C Smith (h)
Morley (pf)
SBW (sr)
Burgess (sr)
Ellis (lf)

Roby
Widdop
Wild
Westwood'"


Great response....

However... maybe it's just me missing it... but I don't see any Wakefield players in there. icon_wink.gif

Also.... One player from each SL team... I see a couple of Warrington... and a couple of Saints.

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Quote: LoyalFan "Great response....

However... maybe it's just me missing it... but I don't see any Wakefield players in there.
Poetic license.... I've got £48m, I'll do what I want! icon_wink.gif

I'll let Morley go for Peacock then & Foster for Dixon (Just to get a bit of Cas in there!)

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Ok, I've tried to keep it vaguely plausible in terms of salary cap for mine. Have gone more for players I like rather than automatically picking the best player. Possibly a bit light in the backs, but fairly balanced I feel. Have assumed Manu, Morrison and Hansen are non-quota due to being here for so long? Made one big-money NRL signing.

1 Patten (Q)
2 Broughton
3 Clubb Harlequins
4 Watkins Leeds
5 Gibson
6 Bosc Catalans
7 Holdsworth (Q)
8 Cashmere (Q)
9 Godwin
10 Morley Warrington
11 Hansen (NQ) Wigan
12 Thaiday (Q) Brisbane
13 Wild
14 Crabtree Huddersfield
15 McCarthy-Scarsbrook St Helens
16 Ratchford
17 Manu (NQ) Hull FC
18 Sneyd
19 Spencer
20 Adamson
21 Adamson
22 Johnson (Paul) Crusaders
23 Neal
24 Owen
25 Owen Castleford
26 Newton (Q) Hull KR
27 Morrison (NQ) Wakefield
28 Lynch Bradford

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1. Luke Patten Q
2. Jodie Broughton
3. Leroy Cudjoe - Huddersfield
4. Tony Clubb - Harlequins
5. Tom Briscoe - Hull FC
6. Rangi Chase - Castleford Q
7. Daniel Holdsworth Q
8. Ray Cashmere Q
9. James Roby - St Helens
10. Adrian Morley - Warrington
11. Joel Tomkins - Wigan
12. Jason Chan - Crusaders NQ
13. Stephen Wild
14. Wayne Godwin
15. Andy Lynch - Bradford
16. Jamie Peacock - Leeds
17. Gregory Mounis - Catalans NQ
18. Luke George - Wakefield
19. Sean Gleeson
20. Matty Smith
21. Ryan Boyle
22. Lee Jewitt
23. Adam Neal
24. Luke Adamson
25. Chris Nero NQ
26. Adam Sidlow
27. Scott Murrell - Hull KR

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I decided not to look outside Super league by the way.

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Super League

1 Tomkins - Wigan
2 Broughton - (S)
3 Cudjoe - Huddersfield
4 Watkins - Leeds
5 Briscoe - Hull
6 Chase - Castleford (Q)
7 Dureau - Catalans (Q)
8 Cashmere - (S) (Q)
9 Roby - Saints
10 Lynch - Bradford
11 Newton - Hull KR (Q)
12 Chan - Crusaders (Q)
13 Wild - (S)

14 Morley - Warrington
15 Korkidas - Wakefield (Q)
16 Smith - (S)
17 Feka - (S)

Could only be bothered doing 17

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I don't think Korkidas, Chan or Newton count on the overseas quota mate.

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As people have said, cracking question.

The 14 in the current squad I've decided to keep are;

Patten Q
Nero NQ
Broughton
Ratchford
Holdsworth Q
Godwin
Cashmere Q
Smith
Wild
Adamson
Boyle
Sidlow
Gleeson
Neal

adding to that squad I have;

Watkins (Leeds)
Briscoe (Hull FC)
Widdop (Melbourne Storm)
Morley (Warrington)
Roby (St Helens)
Lynch (Bradford)
Burgess (South Sydney Rabbitohs)
Ellis (Wests Tigers)
George (Wakefield)
Clinton (Hull KR)
Ferguson (Huddersfield)
Chan NQ (Crusaders)
Lewis Q (Penrith Panthers)

Making my squad (Quota players in red)

1) Patten
2) Broughton
3) Ratchford
4) Watkins
5) Briscoe
6) Widdop
7) Holdsworth

14) Godwin
15) Boyle
16) Cashmere
17) Ferguson
1icon_cool.gif Smith
19) Wild
20) Chan
21) Nero
22) Adamson
23) Neal
24) Clinton
25) Sidlow
26) Gleeson
27) George

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Players I'd keep would be from our squad now would be

Patten, broughton, Gibson, clay, rathcford, smith, holdsworth, Godwin, Owen, cashmere, boyle, adamson, wild, sidlow.

I would bring in

Roby, westwood, crabtree, chase, blanch, welham, yeaman, peacock, lynch, s. Burgess, g. Ellis, s. Tomkins, clubb

My 17 would be

Patten, broughton, yeaman, welham, blanch, chase, holdsworth, crabtree, roby, peacock, burgess, Westwood, ellis.

Subs. S. Tomkins, cashmere, lynch, wild.

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Not doing the whole thing but you'd have to pick Matt Scott, not seen a prop as good as that for many a year and you worry what we will do to Enlgand and Wales this Autumn.

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With my winnings, I'd create a big genetic engineering lab and then clone Paul Gallen. My team would then consist of 17 Paul Gallens who would all be considered as home grown players as he will have been grown in a growbag in a lab in Ordsal. We would then batter (literally) everyone in Super League.

Simples. a046.gif

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