Tansey
Turner
Hall
Manu
Whiting
Horne
Long
O'Meley
Berrigan
Cusack
Tickle
Burnett
Fitz

Moa
Dowes
Lauaki
Houghton

Tansey
Turner
Hall
Manu
Whiting
Horne
Long
O'Meley
Berrigan
Cusack
Tickle
Burnett
Fitz

Moa
Dowes
Lauaki
Houghton

sorry double post !!

I think that Manu could be a short term answer to our 2-5 problems. Maybe switch the wingers round so that Turner is on Manu's wing and Whiting on Hall's ?

TBH I'd rather stick with Yeaman than shift Manu into the centres.

I'd go with

Tansey
Turner
Hall
Whiting
Briscoe
Horne
Long
Dowes
Berrigan
O'Meley
Tickle
Manu
Fitzgibbon

Cusack
Moa
Lauaki
Houghton

Although Yeamna was poor with ball in hand last night (who wasnt), he wasnt the worst, I think he has had a good season so far so deserves to play.

I think he will play.
I'd pair Whiting with Briscoe as Whiting is fairly solid under the high ball and I think he'd give Briscoe a bit more protection than Yeaman. I also think Hall should play which leaves the tough option of dropping Yeaman.

Yeaman and Briscoe were both shocking and, for me, so bad that they should be dropped. How many times are we going to see Briscoe out of position for opponents tries before he recieves any criticism ?? It is becoming beyond the joke !

If we go into the derby with golden boy Briscoe on one of our wings, dobson will a have a field day !!

Who else do we put there though?
Our only winger is out injured and we're struggling to effectively cover him let alone dropping Briscoe aswell.

That's exactly why I would put Manu out there. We have the cover in the back row and it would enable us to go into the dobbins game with two solid wingers in Whiting and Turner.

Tansey
Turner
Manu
Hall
Whiting

For me, that's as good as it currently gets and would gives us a fighting chance when faced with kicks to the corner aswell as giving us a more potent threat out wide in Hall and Manu.

That backline has too many people playing out of position for my liking. Two makeshift wingers and a second row in the centres is going to get caught out IMO. I know out defence on the flanks has been a bit flimsy so far but I don't think replacing Yeaman with Manu is going to achieve anything, he just doesn't have the experience and centre is supposedly the hardest place to defend.

His defensive mis-reads were worse last night than i've seen before. Every time they attacked down their right Yeamo was in no mans land every time.

Drop briscoe