Probably a bit early but out of our current 1st team who would you keep for next season and what position would you play him?

Here's mine.

1 Ratchford
2 Russell
3 Evans
4 Atkins
5 Joel
6 Bridge
7 (vacant)
8 Hill
9 Clarke
10 Simms
11 (vacant)
12 Westwood
13 Grix

14 Wood
15 Higham
16 Harrison
17 Laithwaite

out:
Myler
Asotasi
England

Retire:
Trent

Vacant....where we ought to looking to bring somebody as we don't really have anybody at a level to bring through at the quality required for next season.

Would disagree about England. He's improved massively since he came, and looks to be in the same mould as Chris Hill. However paul Wood has been a great servant to the club, but I feel this season should be his last for us.

Agreed Wood did look a stone over weight today and sluggish.

What about Ben Evans? He's the best out of the current crop. I'd agree with England, he's come on leaps and bounds and with a good pre-season behind him could have a big year. He gets the nod over Wood for me.

Elsewhere, well sorry Joel is too slow to be a winger after this year. If we retain him, move him infield to centre.

Currie gets my vote at 11. He needs to bulk up and have a good pre-season but he is still the business.

Personally, think we need a bit of the physician's knife and cut deep, and hard.

Time for Wood to go. He's become another Morley copy cat, i.e. playing on a season too long. Unfortunately, the game passed him by today.

and now, puts tin hat on, the size of Australia

WESTWOOD IS LOOKING TIRED, and is in danger of falling into the above bracket.

If we all face facts, Ben has been a shadow of his former Wire brilliance, this season. Again, as I've said on another thread, he was virtually non existent as a threat with ball in hand today, as were all the pack.

1 R Evans
2 Russell
3 Joel
4 Atkins
5 Ormsby
6 Bridge
7 Ratchford
8 Hill
9 Clarke
10 Simms
11 Currie
12 Westwood
13 Grix

14 B Evans
15 Higham
16 Harrison
17 Laithwaite

out:
Myler
Asotasi

Retire:
Trent
Monas
Wood

in limbo:
England

okay with some of your help and a bit of a shifty we now have a 17 like this for next year.

Wood hasn't been good enough for Wire for about 5 years, let's all be honest, don't know why we're kicking a fuss up now. I am sentimental though so keep.

Russell has potential, but he's prone to brain explosions. He's Richie Mathers with power and pace.

Only positions I am glad to give right now are -

01.
02.
03.
04.
05. Monaghan.
06.
07.
08. Hill.
09. Clark.
10.
11. Westwood.
12. Harrison.
13. Grix.

14.
15.
16.
17.

Grix remains very much part of the equation for next year, but I think he may well get pushed into a utility role off the bench. Same could be said of Westwood as a rotation prop.

When you consider the backrow talent available ...

Harrison, Currie, Laithwaite, B.Evans, Westwood I'd be going for a back three of Currie, Laithwaite & Harrison (I see B.Evans as prop and a damn fine one too).

Has the responsibility of captaincy had a negative effect on Bennie? For Moz it worked as it reigned him in a bit but the same seems to have happened to Bennie yet for him it hasn't worked how we'd like. Also is it he's just shattered after trying to carry half of the pack alongside Hill?

if your confident you've signed clark maybe you should spell his name correctly, its a bit disrespectful to spell it wrong

I'm well chuffed you have signed Simms. I can't believe the hype generated by you lot. Add another dud to your 17, he is very average. There will be plenty of pages of disappointment posted on this forum. As I posted previous you might as well have signed Kirke or Lovegrove, they will offer as much and be a fraction of the price.

Perhaps you could start a sentence with a capital letter, end it with a full stop and use a comma after the name Clark? Which also must start with a capital letter.
The use of the word "maybe" is out of context unless you were going to use it as a question, in which case you have not used a question mark following the word "correctly".
The use of the word "you're" is incorrect in the English language, it has a meaning of you are. Your use of the word is correct in American English.

FATALITY...........FLAWLESS VICTORY.

Not to mention the schoolboy point that "its" should be "it's", and he has used the adjective "wrong" where he really needs the adverb "wrongly".

The boy done good otherwise

Excellent post.