It's good to see Ben Reynolds back and in the 19.

Reynolds back in the squad gives us the opportunity to rest either Riddy or Ryan, especially as we are only playing Fax and not one of the better teams in the league.

The bolded players are who I see as the difference between the sides. You could replace the rest of the players with run of the mill championship players but as long as you had those 6 players in the team you would probably still have the best team in the league. It could be a long afternoon for us Sunday.

I doubt 8 Fuifui Moimoi will play a big a part,returning from injury. The one player that will again stand out which you dont mention is 9 Bob Beswick,he will be one that wears your forwards down as you don't have an answer to him.

Greg McNally is comfortably the most skilful full back in the competition and could easily slot in to most super league teams IMO.

Seems odd ro bring Reynolds back as I can't see where we'd play him and would imagine that he'd go back out on loan but that now means it's another month before we can call him back. Assume it must mean that either Ryan or Riddy isn't quite 100%.



Absolutely.

THIS

He just lacks that pace!! He would be lethal of he has that but agree he is a very very good player

He's not going to win any 100 metre sprints but he has a decent turn of pace and he always seems to make the right pass at the right time.

Never good enough for SL but you may be right on most skillful FB in this league although IMO he is probably not even in the top 3 FB's in this league. Rowley was still chasing Fieldhouse till a few weeks before his injury FWIW.

As for Beswick he is very good at what he does but I do not really rate him and never did when he was at Fax but thats probably down to my preference in hookers. I always preferred Penky and given one of my favourite Halifax players was Rowley I do prefer the more 'explosive' hookers to steady eddies.

Bob Beswick every time for me.

Guess that's why Paul is the coach !

Agreed. I always thought last year's plan to start with Bob who'd set up the game plan, lead the pack, and settle the game going, then swap him with the unpredictable Penky would really throw teams and alow us to score a few trys while the opposition were still adapting to the completely different game plan.