One trick pony springs to mind

I wouldn't change too much from last week, bring back Taylor, Westy and one more prop (Masi or Paea)

This would be my side
Wynne
Faramino
Carlos
Connor
Griffin
Kelly
Sneyd
Taylor
Houghton
Masi/Paea
Manu (Could do with a rest maybe)
Mini
Westy

Hadley
Lane
Ellis
Brown

Seriously though, for all the usual Derby pre match nonsense it generally comes down to attitude and who wants the win more. Both sides have extremely challenging Monday games so both will be desperate for the points.

Presumably disciplinary announcements from this weekend will be at tea time today? Also, does the disciplinary panel sit between Friday and Monday for any incidents referred from coming Thurs/Fri? Can't remember.

I was thinking similar. Even if the likes of Green and Bowden are fit I'm not sure this is the best game to come back after such a long lay off. We may be better with guys more up to speed. I would shuffle a few things around though.

Injuries permitting:

Wynne (Shaul if fit, but it doesn't sound like it)
Faraimo
Tuimavave
Connor
Ratu/Logan
Kelly
Sneyd
Taylor
Houghton
Matongo
Minichiello
Griffin
Westerman

Ellis
Paea
Brown
Manu

If you need to do anything with the backs Griffin can slot in there and you have a couple of guys on the bench who can play second row.

Then on Monday you can look at the likes of Green, Bowden, Savelio, Thompson, Hadley, Lane etc to freshen it up.

Cracking post Mrs B. Unfortunately some don't seem to have your sense of humour.

… or any sense of humour.

I wonder is Ellis is going to be cited for his challenge on Bird,

be shocked if he is. It is a penalty at the most, so to get a ban for something that in a game would only be a penalty would be harsh

Be interesting to see what Radord does with Griffin after his good performance in the second row at Catalan
maybe what he will do is start with Kelly again on the bench with Connor at 6 then bring Minichello off after 30 mins and push Griffin again into the second row.Minichello comes back on again later in the second half for Manu.

If he starts with Sneyd/kelly and Connor at centre then i think Griffin would be more effective off the bench after 20 mins or so.
I like the idea of Griffin and Savelio as our second rows in waiting

I don’t, Griff as much as I like the lad, in my humble opinion will never be a top notch second row as Mini & Sika have been.
We need to match their aggression work ethic and class they demonstrated in the first two seasons.

Savelio needs to get match fit and prove he has resolved the terrible knee injuries he’s had. Undoubtably a great prospect, but at present not at these two standards yet.

You may ask then who will replace them, perhaps we are looking to the NRL once again, numerous names have been mentioned, including a few from the U.K., it will be interesting that’s for sure

griffin been one of the in form centres in the game, leave him there for now, if he needs to cover 2nd row he can, Radford will know whos fit and whos not, wouldn't risk anybody whos not, can see paea taylor savelio if fit westy back in the squad also ratu, but we wont know till they run out fri. COYH