One movement I find a bit unusual is Paterson going from 13 to 11 and Harrison Hansen going the other way.

For me Paterson is far more of a 13, a ball handling forward who can (and has) played in
the halves when needed. Hansen is more a traditional second rower who will tackle all day and run all night.

That said, squad numbers are not too important and the squad we have in place looks pretty handy to me. If Jukesy can get the team firing I wouldn't back against us missing the dreaded 8's altogether.

If they were not so important,why would say..



Mind games......I'll set you back to Patersen playing scrum half at Odsal.Did anyone complain?

I reckon most teams play their 'loose forward' as an extra prop these days, Nozzy.

Paterson played the second half of last season and the 8s at second row, linking with Ridyard on the right hand side. Hansen played down the middle.

Perhaps we should have tried alphabetical. I think that would solve all the problems.

Storm in a teacup, Paul Scholes played in the 18 shirt all his career.

Indeed they do , a complete waste of talent if you ask me , with usually 4 forwards on the bench sacrificing talent for brute strength seems daft , I doubt that tactic will help us

IMO we need an expansive style to win games in SL , let's see a touch of early 2015

Agreed, SL at times is too regimented 5 drives and kick shouldn’t be in our plans unless closing the game out, we’ve shown what we are capable of and how SL teams struggled to cope with us keeping it alive, let’s play to our strengths and give them something to think about.

No, its not like they're the most successful team in Super League ever.

Correct and young Roy Keane played in a 16 shirt all his career. The skipper !

27 into 13 will simply not go. Players will not be bothered what number is on their back as long as they are selected. Actually, if I was some of the players in that squad I will be thanking my blessings I even have a number. I mean Jamie Acton not having a Super League number 8 or 10? Disgraceful...


Rubbish thread.

IMO whilst we have a team to win SL games, we do not have the personell to exploit teams with an expansive style. I feel it is therefore unlikely we will adopt one. Especially with the rule changes to the scrum where defensive teams need to retract a full 10 metres.

Conversely, I feel teams could hurt us more from that change than what we will gain from it.

So you think we will be able to ' grind teams down and snatch victories ' ?

If we go out with the mindset to avoid heavy defeats we will lose , I couldn't care less what the score is , every game is winnable , just go out to win

But our forwards will give us more chance of winning than our backs.

We have some great RL ability in the forwards, Weston can pass, Stewart is as good as a halve, as is Patterson