What pleases me is 10 ex Academy players and all of them pretty decent imho.

Isn't the spare number for the community trust?

Community trust is number 31 i believe

He did that with Sio too. I'm sure it'll be Arona on game day.

If the no 25 shirt is being held back for a new signing, maybe that player is or has been on world cup duty, hence the lack of announcement at this stage

What happened to this Schofield ?

Schofield is in the under 19s

What a fantastic squad
We really couldn't as for much more

Bring on 2018

Agree it really is. Just having those extra bits of quality added like Randall, who looked from what we saw looks like he's going be an excellent signing and takes the pressure off Wood. Plus another monster front rower in Pauli Pauli to add even more x-factor, size and power to what was already a big pack. Plus also Horo and Baldwinson to add even more depth is truly exciting. Hopefully, we have a little bit more luck with injuries, (although we didn't do too bad)and have Johnstone and Miller for the whole season. Although we now have good back up just about everywhere.

That squad looks good.

lots of back ups for injuries.

sio took a quota spot so do we still have one available?

No.

We don’t have any budget left either

Looking at that squad..... Who the hell do you leave out of the 17??? Best of luck to CC/JK making that weekly decision until injuries kick in.

Always comes as a shock to people doesn't it.

I think this demonstrates our limitations as a club and why the stadium issue is such a drag.

We are probably one or two player off the perfect squad but it's two too many. I suspect to even. E where we are now certain people will have had to empty there pockets of loose change.

That squad is a frickin miracle. Whether it will work who knows but I defy any club to do better on a similar budget.

The real hope this season is that should we get a real bad injury crisis those new youngsters might just be good enough to plug the odd gap. It's been many decades since we could say that.

It's a good team on paper and if we start with what we have I'm happy.

That is a great squad.
My main sele
Ction dilemma is Johnstone. Clearly top quality but his replacement last year did an outstanding job.
It'll be interesting to see how that works out.

Certainly is competition that's for sure.

Would maybe pretty much keep most of it as it was, probably bringing TJ back in place of MCG and Rendell starting, moving Wood to bench, with Horo taking up the last interchange place.

Not sure about Pauli yet as we don't know what his match fitness us like just yet.

One thing I would be tempted to do following their involvement in the World Cup would be to rest Finn and Grix on Boxing Day. Could get an early chance to see what Ackroyd is like.