What do people think will be our starting three quarters next year? Am i alone in thinking this could be the one area where we lack cover/quality?

Rhodri Lloyd has had a few nice touches at centre today. At this moment all we have is options for 4 and 5:

Bowen
Charnley
Goulding
Thornley/Sarginson/Hughes/Lloyd/Gelling/Gildart
Burgess/Manfredi/Thornley/Gelling

Whilst I would love for us to sign Hardaker and run him at centre, but whilst there seems to be plenty of smoke I doubt there is much fire to that rumour.

I do not think it would be ideal to move Thornley back to the wing, unless we sign a long term centre, like Hardaker for example.

Given out current squad Thornely must be one if the starting centres. He seemed to grow in confidence last year, and I expect to see him grow in size after a preseason in our club. He could well be the answer to that position long term, but I think he needs a strong start to the season as he seems to be the definition of a confidence player.

Lloyd looks like a big strong lad who can time a pass. Not many of them in the British game.

He certainly doesn't need to grow in size,and if he was to move onto the wing i would say losing some size would benefit him.

I expect:
1 Bowen
2 Charnley
3 Goulding
4 Thornley
5 Burgess

But it wouldn't surprise me to see a Gelling/Thornley combo on the left side for the WCC if Burgess doesn't nail pre-season