Manfredi on the Wing. Richards at Full Back. Tomkins in the halves.

The problem with half of option A is that Burgess is also in France along with Williams. The problem with option B is that Ryan Hampshire is also in France along with Williams and Burgess. We could also have drafted in Lewis Tierney but, as you might have guessed, he's also in France with Williams, Burgess and Hampshire.

Manfredi is an option but I don't recall seeing his name in the under 19's team for a good few weeks now so it's possible that he might be injured.

Ha ha...very good points! Why didn't that crop up in my mind.

Why do we have to be so good at producing young players

Possibly Manfredi then or if not we best send an SOS over to France.

If Richards (or Charnley for that matter) move to FB so Sam can go in the halves then I'd be pretty sure it would be Hughes to centre and Thornley to wing rather than bringing in a untested youngster for a debut against Leeds at Magic.

But goulding may not play necessitating hughes playing on the right centre.

That would be the obvious move but it all depends on Goulding. According to Wane he's out.

I'm sure Smith can make it anyway.

Ah apologies, presumed that Goulding was back for Sunday.

Williams did nothing wrong last week, and Lockers is never a half back, so unless Smith is back, IMO it would be madness to make these makeshift changes to the team. Swop position for position, and let the team play as a team.

Smith is definately playing.