Quote Aboveusonlypie="Aboveusonlypie"Forgive me but I think you are over emphasising the usefulness of friendlies and you certainly can't use them to gauge form.
Friendlies are for match fitness and maybe to try new things out. Remember when Hock came back from his ban, looked as fit as he'd ever been, but was blowing after 5 minutes, because he wasn't match fit. The players need the friendlies to get that sharpness back that no amount of gym work can give them. But the quality of the opposition needs to be taken into account. Out of Leigh, Saints and NZW only the Saints game can we verify the quality of the opposition and Green played well.'"
If we are talking about match fitness Lockers should not get near the team, yet everybody on here has him in even though he has hardly played during the last few months.
I hope we are not going to get into a situation when we play an unfit Lockers out of desperation and then have him missing for weeks afterwards.
