Anyone got any early news?

Will any of Vinnie, Clarke, Grix, Gleeson or Reardon be back?

Is Jimmy going to grow a pair of balls and drop King and Monaghan or will Penny be the sacraficial lamb again?

Clarke wont be playing and ill let you know about Vinnie on Thursday morning.

I hope so

Penny will be the lamb to the slaughter. Monaghan and King get paid far too much to be dropped. Lowes has to look like he's justifying their wages

Jimmy didn't employ King or Monaghan so he doesn't have to justify anything.

What Jimmy needs to do is start getting performances and results before he gets the tin tack. If he goes Monaghan and King will still be picking up their monster pay packets.

Reardon won't be back for ages yet, I don't think dropping King or Monaghan is a good idea either.

I would drop Monaghan from the halves and stick him at hooker with Higham to come on from the bench.

Bridge can then partner Briers in his natural position.

As for King, stick him on the wing but who plays left centre? I think Johnson has seen better days tbh.

I'd like to see Gleeson partnering Hicks on the right and Bridge partnering Johnson the the left.

Alternatively if Reardon is back, I'd probably put Readon outside Bridge and leave Riley at full back.

Penny/King partnership doesn't seem to have really worked - even for most of last year.

With a very fast winger - you need a solid defensive centre.

Take Offiah - couldn't defend to save his life (initially at least) but his inside centre at Widnes was an unsung hero in my opinion (forgot his name now).

And of course when Offiah went to Wigan he had class centres inside him from both an attacking and defensive point of view (was it Miles and Bell?)

Darren Wright

This would do me:

Riley
Hicks
King
Gleeson
Penny
Bridge
Briers
Morley
Monaghan
Carvell
Johnson
Westwood
Anderson the L/Anderson the V

Higham
Rauhihi
Wood
Mitchell/Blythe

I think you'll see the same side as I don;t think we have any better cover in our weak areas than we put out on Friday. If Gleeson is fit then fair do's, that solves some problems. Should Gleeson not be ready then the only change I'd make is to put Bridge at centre from the off & Johnson on the bench.

In that case King needs to be released as I believe we need Pennys speed more than what King brings.

Surely we could afford a solid defensive centre to partner Penny if we got rid of King.

Also, after seeing Kings interview on sky pre match, I believe he would probably love a return to the NRL.

I know that - I was just moaning.

nowt new there then, you washed that flag yet.

BLoody wirefanatic

How long's Cooper's contract at St. George?

about 14 pages of A4

End of 2011.

Reardon won't be fit for yonks, he did his leg way after Bridge, months later, so he'll be a good way off yet. Once he is 'fit', your looking at him needing reserve fixtures etc before he'll see SL, so I think it's safe to discount him for a while.

If Gleeson isn't fit, maybe go same again, possibly Anderson for Blythe, Blythe bench for Harrison or something like that. Give the players another chance to show what they can do etc.

I cant believe we gave this guy a new contract.

Indeed, our crystal ball must have been broken that day

More than a few eyebrows were raised at the time.

In fact I think before it was announced I was pretty sure we would release him at the end of that current season.

It was announced a fair while after it was signed.....

Cullens legacy eh?

Didn't he sign with leg in plaster?

Maybe we can cancel his contract as I bet the signature was far removed from his normal handsigned one