Having Pat back is great news.

PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT

Roberts isn't in the team

That's almost exactly the team I picked (except I had Farrell starting and Hansen on the bench)

Would be surprised if we didn't have a back on the bench.

It's not as simple as that. Roberts let Sam play where he should at 6. Also were Charnley to have another tough game it might not do his confidence much good so a few games in the U20's is no bad thing for him regardless of who gets in the team instead of him. If the coach wants to give Charnley a rest from 1st team action who you suggest instead of Roberts?

I supoose that last bench spot depends on how much Pat trusts his fitness, or more importantly how much Madge trusts Pat's fitness. I'd be surprised if Carnley wasn't on there. Joel starting at centre gives us some flexibility in the forwards in case there's an injury there and Charnley can replace Pat should he start to flag or feel his achilles playing up

Good luck!!!

Pat Richards

Darrell Goulding
Joel Tomkins
George Carmont
Josh Charnley

Sam Tomkins
Brett Finch

Lee Mossop
Thomas Leuluai
Andy Coley
Liam Farrell
Ryan Hoffman
Sean O'Loughlin
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Michael McIlorum
Harrison Hansen
Paul Prescott
Chris Tuson

Sam needs to go back in the halves for two reasons - one: he is now no longer effective at FB as last season as he is heavilly marked in returning the ball and coming into the line and two: we need to form our 1st choice half back partnership and stick to it for the season as much as possible.

Part of the reason we were so woeful against leeds is due to the fact we havent had a halfback pairing that has played more than 40 minutes together all season with all the chopping and changing. Finch and Tomkins together can be an awesome partnership purely for the fact that teams trying to cancel out one will inevitably miss the other, and both are massive potent attacking halves who have the ability to tear teams apart all season.

Then the rest of the team picks itself IMO - Simply the strongest team we can put out in every position at the moment. Richards is a bedrock at full back and will cut out the errors we have seen from roberts and tomkins at the back and sturdy our defence. Roberts is simply not good enough to make the cut and should be dropped until he significantly improves.

mossop's shoulder gone in training,gone for surgery in wales,so i've been told

If true, that's a massive blow to us with us being so short in the front row...

Damn, damn, damn

Bugger....would have him as one of our starting prop forwards on how he has been playing this season. The more I see of Mossop the more I think he will be the man with a big enough presence to replace Jamie Peacock on the international stage. Big rep but I recon he's well capable of it.

The team had not been announced when I was asking should Roberts be in the lineup

I prefer Tomkins at 6 but players confidence is not an easy call to make; some players come back stronger after a bad game. I would have Richards at fullback Charnley on the wing and Tomkins at 6

mossop and farrell (quad injury)l out. marsh starting at centre, tomkins backrow. hansen on bench as a prop.

Saw Mossop in Wigan yesterday didn't see anything wrong with his shoulder.