What an excellent position to be in next season for PG, as he said last season his players played through the pain barrier, injections, niggling injuries etc etc and played on despite of all the problems. This now gives him the oportunity to rest certain players when a week or so off gives them the time to recover properly from these niggling injuries rather than play on with injections etc, quality in depth is what he's after and long term keeping them all as fit as possible. I hope PG stays for the next ten years, he knows what he wants and the way to go about it long term and I for one wish him well for all our sakes. He'll use the squad to the full next season and keep them all fresh, got to be good ! We've got quality all over the park and some to spare for the first time for ages, if ever !

Think I would rather go with

6 Whiting
7 Holdsworth

Than have any other current combo.

Whiting at half back?

I am a big, big fan of his but don't recall him having much of a kicking game.

I don't recall us having much of a kicking game in general

He got MOM against Leeds playing in the halves

Whiting played as an extra backrower that game

and Houghton can pull off a long range kick from acting half, he hasn't done it enough for me to say whether it's luck or a kicking game hiding away in there

Whiting.

Westerman is much better on the edges than he is in the middle. Very dangerous in attack.

For 13 next season I think it'll be between Whiting and Galea.

Whiting's the best option to have on the bench, too. He can interchange the backrow and also cover any injuries in the backs.

I think that all 5 of our 'high-profile' back rowers will get a lot of appearances next season - there are going to be injuries at some point.