Grix
Mcgillevary
Gilmour
Lawrence
Hodgson

Brown
Brough

Raleigh
Robinson
Crabtree
Fa'alogo
O'Donnell
Faiumu

Griffin
Horne
Lunt
Ferguson

Assuming Mason not fit otherwise Mason in the starting pack and Raleigh to drop to bench for Ferguson

What about Larne though?

Close to what I'd go with but, for me, Larne would go in ahead of Raleigh although not to start.

Jeez we have options, big time.

interesting that most people seem to have picked cudjoe over hodgson,im sure thats not based on form.
but as dan says there's just too many options,it doesn't seem that long ago we were struggling to name a 17!

Hodgson must be in as otherwise he would have played today.He would not be in my best 17 , but Nathans cv is better than mine.

This has got me thinking about how much opposition managers think about this angle. And if so they are going struggle with this as much as us.

I have a sneaky feeling that Nathan may throw in a couple of wild cards - Simpson and wardle perhaps.

Grix

McGilvery, Lawrence, Wardle, Hodgson

Brown, Brough

Crabtree, Lunt, Griffin
Gilmour, Fa'alogo
O'Donnell

Horne, Faiumu, Patrick, Robinson

Assumption: Mason unfit for selection.

If Fa'alogo is still having injury issues then I would swap him out for Ferguson.

If all fit then;-

Grix

McGilvery
Cudjoe
Lawrence
Hodgson

Brown
Brough

Mason
Lunt
Griffin
Gilmour
Fa'alogo
O'Donnell

Robbo
Faiumu
Crabtree
Patrick

I agree with the post above but start robbo instead of Lunt, and Mason out for ferguson

Possibly however I think Raleigh did enough yesterday to keep his spot and with Mason out we need a more solid hard worker rather than an impact prop which I feel Patrick is. That would allow Eorl to play more an impact role rather than the grafting role he played last year. However reading the Examiner it appears that Fa'alogo will probably miss out so move Horne or Ferguson into 2nd row and Patrick on the bench, or Gilmour into 2nd row and Cudjoe or Wardle to centre or..... my head hurts, It's no wonder NB lost all his hair.

From reading t'Examiner it seems Mason is going to be out quite a while, potentially the season. If so someone else is going to have to fly out of the defensive line to whallop the first receiver! He will be missed but it's a chance for someone else, as NB would say.

I got 13 out of the 17.
10 starters correct and 3 interchange.


If Nathan had picked my team we would have won by 29 points....

...and i would have lost my bet.......Giants to win by 16-20 points at 7/1

Hee Hee...I just keep betting on robbo and mcg to score each game. It pays for the beers.

Fiver on Scott Grix as 1st tryscorer at hills 16-1 then thought better of it and changed it to McGilvery at 12-1 grrrrrrrrrr £83 down swanny but win made up for it!!!!

i had same problem too.....was just about to write Grix then changed it to Robbo for better odds

i as on at 6/4 for the win