I think its clear that Noble isnt going to drop Fielden, he loves him.

There is a deep strong loving bond between these two men that will one day be made into a Hollywood blockbuster.

Probably John Cena to play Stu

Matt Damon for me, he's another one stealing a living

Cena at prop, now theres an idea

Richards
Ainscough
Carmont
Gleeson
Roberts
Phelps
Smith
Fielden
Riddell
Coley
Hock
Bailey
O'Loughlin

Tommy
Feka
Joel
Prescott

Give Sam a rest this week. Hansen wasn't missed last week. Phelps needs to be involved.

Give Vievers a chance if Richards is injured good goal kicker

1 Vievers
2 Roberts
3 Gleeson
4 Carmont
5 Ainscough
6 Smith
7 Phelps
8 Coley
9 Leuluai
10 Prescott
11 Hock
12 O'Loughlin
13 J Tompkins

Feka
O,Carroll if back if not Fielding
Hanson if back if not Bailey
Riddell
S Tompkins give the lad a rest ready for Edinbough

I would bring young ainscough back and drop phelps apart from that as you were but maybe swap tomkins for smith.

Can't believe anyone would want Phelps in the side at FB and Richards on the wing as opposed to Richards at FB and Ainscough on the wing.

Phelps made two awful mistakes that would have had Goulding written off as not going to be good enough and these mistakes were against naff opposition.



The fact something worked v Celtic tells us what exactly?

It would not surprise me in the least if Noble goes with the same 17 and if so given how Phelps played v Celtic then the resting Ainscough/duty of care claptrap will be exposed as nonsense and Nobby will have reverted to his old ways of picking his favourites regardless. Hope I am wrong.

Dave

The irony is that Noble would probably get less stick if he dropped him.

You can only drop him if you have someone to put in his place, and we don't at present.

I think Phelps should play FB again but not at the expense of Ainscough which is the dilema Noble has at the minute IMO.

As I have said elsewhere Phelps link up play at FB looks very very promising and as much as I like Sir Pat of Richards hes not the best at coming into the line when attacking.

Please tell me you dont mean karl pryce at 6, not a chance the laziest, quitest and the worst player n the squad at 6, yeah great choice

Phelps hasn't really been exposed at fullback yet so it's difficult to know how good he is defensively but attacking wise he's got a far better rugby brain than Richards. I know it's been mentioned that he's played standoff at junior level and I think this comes across with his link up play and his distribution.