Aye pal, since Gleeson looks to be unavailable I think Lowes may choose to play Bridge rather than Penny now. I most definatley agree Bridge needs more time and should be played bit by bit, after such bad spell of injuries.

Exactly, the temptation is there to kind of 'be greedy' and solve a problem by getting him back into the 17. I think we should really avoid this to be honest, it wasn't too long ago that folk were intimating that one more injury would/should see Chris & his career continuing away from Warrington. As a club, we should look after him, and ensure that he only plays SL when he's ready. I'm sure the medical staff will assess him, advise him & Jimmy and they'll all make a decision but I'd hate for this to end in tears when it was avoidable.

You're not reading Cockers.

I'm not writing Johnson off. Anyone with even a basic knowledge of RL can surely see he's too slow to play in the centres now. He's strong and runs the ball in hard, he should be in the second row or interchange with the forwards from the bench - centre, no way. Saints moved Gilmour from second row to centre and he skinned Johnson the first time he got a run at him.

My worry is that Lowes will play him on the wing instead of Penny next weekend

Hasn't Bridge played on't wings before?

He played outside Toa in the back end of his first season (2005), we won pretty much all those games

I'm not saying we should play him there now, but with his fitness still short, surely it would be easier for him on the wing, than at 1/3/6?

very true and his backroom staff...

i'd happily have bridge at centre, i've advocated that for a while , i like his in out and away(one out of JWP's book).

Although, in a sort of perverse fashion i'd also quite like to shove matt king over to right centre, anything to get him away from penny, give him a go on the right and see if he's any good there.

Having re-read Mike Gregory's book the other week, I'm pretty sure Bridge played in the centres when England Academy beat the Australians (Mathers was stand off). That's a fair while ago though, and he's not played there since. Centre is a pretty specialist position, so it may take him a few games to get into it. However, should Gleeson be out for a longer spell, perhaps worth a go.

Bridge has played centre for Warrington quite a few times including 20mins on Friday.

I stand corrected, the only one that comes readily to mind is the last time we played Salford on Good Friday, couple of years ago?.

Correct. Bridge did play centre.