My guess at the 17.
Hampshire,
Charnley, Goulding, Gelling Richards,
Green, Smith,
Crosby, McIlorum, Dudson,
Hansen, Farrell
Flower.
Bench, Andy Powell, Lauaki, L Tomkins, Hughes,

Flower are even Hansen at LF

Sam Powell to be rested, Tuson to miss out.

Those rumours would be the calibre of player we need to replace Richards and Tomkins. The truth is even those two will be a drop in quality but its about as good as we're going to do at the moment and I'm sure we'd still be in the hunt with that sort of team.

They would really ease the pressure of having to throw kids in.

I don't think Briscoe would be a drop in quality from Richards, 3 years ago yes, but not now

Briscoe needs to find some form though, he's having a very poor season but I suppose his heads probably not in the right place.

The thing we can't forget with Richards is that goal kicking ability. He is worth a mountain of points that Briscoe wouldn't be and we'd probably end up with Matty Smith or Charnley kicking goals. That will cost us a few points a game IMO.

I do agree Briscoe has certain parts of his game now though that outweigh Richards when he's on form.

We also need a top quality goal kicker!

I can't see us signing one. Matty Smith has knocked a few in from the touchline, hopefully they've already started training him up