Rapana has been messed about too much, he has played every position in the backs, give him.a run at FB.

Pryce is our long term 6, play him there.


Got to give Littten a run of ganes too.


If we can, got to stop chopping and chaging and get our combinations right.

Im sure Cartwright said Rapana wont play fullback all the time because of his age and the demands of that position .

I agree, but not fair on changing his position every week.


If he wants a rest I'd play Moy, Pryce has to play 6 IMO.

I think we might get a bit of reality check over the next few weeks, can't see us getting much out of this one.
By the sounds of it our 2nd row options seem to Ashworth, Kirby and Jebson.


Rapana
Briscoe
Litten
Hardaker
Martin
Pryce
Sezer
Ese'ese
Borough
Aydin
Ashworth
Kirby
Asiata


Knight
Eseh
Cust
Jebson

Rapana not got the engine at 1 for me, He'd be one of my centres with Hardaker the other.

Had a poor gane Saturday, but think he has shown in the games he has played at FB, Cats and Wigan away he is good enough to play there 

I don't think we have a better option at FB currently.

With the current squad think pryce has to play fb.
Raps is in twilight of his career not sure how many games he could play there.
Think it’s same issue with Hardaker too.
Moy not physically big enough yet.
Cust can do more than capable job at 6.

We signed Rapana as a full back and Pryce as a stand off. Cust was signed as the 'number 14' cover for halfback/hooker. 


I think we need to run with this for a while at least.

Agree to an extent. My only worry about that is that if Cust plays 6 we then go another week with Bourouh doing a full 80. Which he is capable of doing, it just means we don't have any impact coming on at 9. We're missing Balmforth massively in that department. We could include Hutchinson again, but he's still too raw to really make much of a difference when he comes on, and that's usually only in the last 10 anyway.

We have lots of full backs in the squad but none top notch.  moy, litten, hardaker all played FB most of their (some admittedly short) careers.  Add in rapana and pryce and we have plenty of options but no top class specialist.  For Friday I'd maybe go with pryce to start at FB, cust at 6, rapana on the wing and briscoe in the centre.  I think rapana, briscoe, hardaker and martin is our strongest 3/4 line currently.  Then I'd have litten on the bench and if we need to spell burough move cust to 9 and bring litten to FB and Pryce to 6.


I think putting pryce at FB for the next 2 or 3 weeks until he's fully up to speed would let him settle in and cause us less disruption

Not sure who or what 17 we will have available but hopefully Cust should be back at the very least and fingers crossed possibly Watts. With Balmforth still likely to be unavailable I'd like to see Cust used to spell Bourouh as I thought he looked a little jaded on Saturday. Although Rapana didn't have his best game I still think he's our best option at FB currently and with Litten & Pryce we have the option of changing things around during the 80mins if needed. 


2nd row is the big issue as we simply don't have recognised ones left but think Ashworth will do well and think it may well be worth giving Kirby or Jebson an opportunity to impress, if not Ashworth & Aydin.  


Something a little different I know but 


Rapana/Litten
Briscoe
Hardaker
Litten/Rapana
Martin
Pryce/Cust
Sezer
Ese'ese
Bourouh/Cust
Knight
Ashworth
Kirby/Jepson
Asiata


Aydin
Salabio or Watts (if fit)
Eseh
Cust