We arent light on numbers though, maybe Rick a man with a pedigree of developing youngsters will do just that by playing some of ours. Not one of those young lads will fare any worse than some of the showings of last season. I reckon he will trust them and play them unlike our previous 2 coaches. We have Sam Wood with SL experience, Darnell Mcintosh who didnt look out of place in the pre season against Catalans last season, not to mention England captain Matty English and Jacob Wardle amongst many others. People seem to want to see a name they recognise and assume they will be better players, let's remember players like Jonathan Thurston and Sam Burgess were not born superstars, they were given a chance and rewarded with gametime when they took that chance building week by week upto the players they have become. Squad we have now is fitter than they were last season and that was a massive issue in alot of the games i saw last season imo.

we will be fine on numbers if we dont have injuries

of they strike again we will struggle agan

the club has done the right thing though by trying to stop some of that risk with a new conditioner

Going to be very interesting who plays left centre this year with Wardle certain to leave this week.

Lee Gaskell, Sam Wood, Darnell McIntosh or Aaron Murphy?

One injury to Brough or Brierley and Gaskell will be going straight in the halves so I personally can't see him playing in the centres that much given the fact he will also be first in line to play Full Back if Mamo gets injured too.

i wouldnt mind going with the combo of murphy and ormsby...

other options but think this one if the safer option

then again i do like murphy on the wing!!

i though gaskell was being signed to play centre for us at the time mind.

sure stone has a better idea seeing them train, pre season games will be the time to see what the best combo will be

issue is fullback the ausi if he comes is out injured who the hookers are going to be leaming and who else hinchcliife should play LF possiblty they might use brough but with only 3hb in the club again a risk we are very short of cover in the spine of the team

We only have 2 pre season games though, we could do with an extra couple to evaluate combinations.