Heres my first 17 for the coming season.... what do you think??

FULL BACK - Brett Hodgson

WING - Cudjoe
WING - D Hodgson

CENTRE - Lolesi
CENTRE - Whatuira

HOOKER - Lunt

STAND OFF - K Brown
SCRUM HALF - Drew

2ND ROW - Gilmore
2ND ROW - Fa'alogo

LOOSE FORWARD - Wild

PROP - Mason
PROP - Raleigh

SUBS-

PROP - Crabtree
PROP - Griffin
HOOKER - Faiumu
2ND ROW - Kirmond

That will leave as back up for injuries

robinson, patrick,lawrence,finnegan,aspinwall,horne and grix

think we are light in the prop forward department, only patrick to come in but fa'alogo can also play prop

grix n robinson to come in if drew and brown doesnt work!

Kirmond and wild will prob miss start of season so aspinwall and horne could get the chance to stake there claim for first team spots

FULL BACK - Brett Hodgson

WING - Cudjoe
WING - D Hodgson

CENTRE - lawrence
CENTRE - Whatuira

HOOKER - Lunt

STAND OFF - K Brown
SCRUM HALF - Drew

2ND ROW - Gilmore
2ND ROW - Fa'alogo

LOOSE FORWARD -Faiumu
PROP - Mason
PROP - Griffin

SUBS-

PROP - Crabtree
PROP - Raleigh
utility Lolesi
SH / Hooker Robinson

That is based on injuries atc. however there is a long time to go before round one and anyone can force their way into the team before then.

i dont think faiumu is as effective at loose forward, when hes played there before he hasnt really impressed much, id rather have aspinwall or grix in at LF (thats if wild doesnt make the start of season)

and like to see griffin n crabtree off the bench together..think they make a massive impact !!

apart from that id go along with your team for my original team i cant pick between putting drew as starter or robinson

Gilmour. The guys name is Gilmour.

I don't understand how people can spell the name of our own players incorrectly. Been a top player for a decade, do him the honour of at least knowing how to spell his name.

Shows how deep we are that some choose not to pick Wild in the XVII. Saying that he'd be in mine.

GILMOUR!!! GILMOUR!! calm down

yeh wild is in my first team everytime... will he be fit for the first game though??? if not would you put faiumu, grix or aspinwall in???

Why is everyone playing a crock Hooker at Scrum Half? Robbo will be at 7.

I think DG must have forgotten about him. Maybe he's not in his Laura Crane Calendar?

Finnegan and Drew and I think Kirkmond will not make start of season.

Drew a bench player at best.

Having a thirty odd year old at Scrum half is crazy talk.

Build for the future.

lolesi and Whatuira were poor last season too. Go for Lawrence and Gilmour

1-B Hodgson
2-Cudjoe
3-Jammer
4-Gilmour
5-D Hodgson
6-Brown
7-Robbo
8-Mason
9-Lunty
10-Fa-alogo
11-Wild
12-Raleigh
13-Drew

14-Fatz
15-Lawrence
16-Griff
17-Crabtree

At th end of last season Brown was talking about Robbo playing at hooker and apparently talkeed to him about it.


Whether Brown sees him going there this season or next it looks like that is where he will be ending up.

I would guess that Brown will be playing some sort of combination of Drew,Robbo and Lunt at 7, 9 and interchange.

Where they end up on the pitch is another matter. I would expect that when Drew and Robbo are on the pitch together that Robbo will be at dummy half and Drew wil be at 1st or second reciever.

Whatever happens i am sure that Brown will surprise us and most importantly use the interchanges very cleverly to give us the creative players we need in the right place at the right time.

Drew has greater variety in his game and a better reader of the game. He played 21 Sl games lst year - just 2 less than Robbo and more than players like Myler and Brough.

But unless I am mistaken he isn't getting any younger and has had a knee op in the off season and won't be fit for the start of the season.

Additionally both you and I know why he went to Wakie in the first place.

N Brown will not have sign Drew for no reason his experience is possibly second to none and Lunt will learn alot from him as will Robinson. we all saw last season how much Leroy improved with Brett here.