Sam
Josh
George
Joel
pat
Deacon
tommy
Coles,
Micky
Lima
H
hoff
lockers

Mossop
Precky
faz
Finch

Going with Melbourne's revolutionary 12 player system. Nice.

One player short?
Usually thats AFTER Lima has had the ref speak to him...

H playing second row

i like the look of the strenght of the team with players now returning...BUT i'm going to risk my life here and critisise Maguire.

once again he's dropped Finch to the bench. we all know ONLY games will allow him to settle and form a partnership (whoever we decide is his partner this week). however bad he has been (not so, in my opinion) he needs games.

Madge has shown a lack of patients with Amos and now is showing it with Finch. he signed the guy. he coached the guy at melbourne. surely he should have some faith in his signing?

I (based on the team names) would have gone with Finch and Deacon starting and spelling of LuLu and MM. games of musical chairs must stop.
i expect my head shot off for critisising 'his majesty' but i stand by it...

and as a footnote - has Goulding taken a knock? or has he been dropped also? (wrongly IMO if so)

I'm not going to complain about you criticising Madge, he's not infallible and has made a few mistakes at Wigan, just not that many. I think Madge is showing Finch that even though he's returning from injury and is in a new environment he is still a professional rugby player and as such should not make basic errors and has to at least show consistent signs of improvement if he is to justify his place in the side. Having him on the bench is, in my opinion, Madge having patience with Finch, because any other player would have been dropped. He's not the only one to be playing badly, but you can't keep playing a player to the detriment of the side when the team is not playing to its best. We need to start picking up a bit of form before we can allow ourselves to carry a player until they find match practice. Playing Finch on the bench is a compromise.

fair play. differing of opinions...but that's what it's all about, eh!

I think that side is our strongest.

It does show the need for another centre however.

Surprised Marsh has been left out after last weeks MoM performance.

Same, Same.

But I dont think Marshs physique and defence would handle the Hull KR runners out wide such as Newton and Galea.

If Marsh was our MOM last week I think that said an awful lot about our performence as a whole. He did 'ok' but no more and full credit to the lad for being the only guy who looked ar*ed enough to try and chase back when Catalans scored 2 breakaway trys from our shocking passes but it wasn't a stunning showing from him by any stretch.

We need to pick our strongest 17 available and for me he's not in it so I can't say i'm upset to see him miss out although I really hope to see the lad kick on as I do with all our youngsters.

Outside of the Marsh non selection i'm happy enough with the side but Maguire must now try and get a settled team nailed down. We only have 1 player missing that would get into our first choice 17 so theres no excuses on that front. We've made far too many changes in pivotal positions this year and it's hurt us.

I think Finch being on the bench is a good move. If we can start quickly with Deacs in and build a lead up it will give Finch a chance to get some game time without being under pressure and trying to force things like he has been so far. It's obviously a bit of a gamble and is asking Deacon to come straight back in and immediately get the backs ticking again but if anyone can do it in our squad it's him

ANOTHER different halfback combination, with it also likely to change during the match. Not good for consistency and cohesion in attack.

It would seem that Maguire agrees with me, a half back combination of Deacon and Finch is short of pace and could be exposed for pace.