Ridiculous. Its not like we need to play people out of position for a one-off game. Its the start of a new 'era' for this team, against poor opposition, and we still have people all over the shop. crazy

If anyone can it would be O'Loughlin, one of our best defensive players and if it neutralises their biggest threat it might not be a bad idea.

As knocker says above, he has to get near Inglis first to lay a finger on him.

If we had two grat attaking centres I would say it's a bad move to drop one of them but it's an area we were are struggling and it might just be a gamble worth taking, either with O'Loughlin or Ellis.

I would rather see Shenton given the chance to play against what is an awesome looking Aussie backline. Chances are he may struggle but if he is to develop into a world class centre he is going to have to prove it against the best.

There is that argument, nothing wrong with Smith having a look in this game though.