full back tansey
winger briscoe
centre hall
centre yeamon
winger calderwood
s half long
s off horne
prop o melley
hooker berrigan
prop radford
2nd row tickle
2nd row manu
loose fitzgibbon


interchanges moa, lauaki, houghton,washbrook

dont know what any one else thinks but i really struggled to get my 17 , some good players missing out and was really undecided about radders and manu ,on paper we have two full packs and i just hope agar can keep everyone happy otherwise i can see a few going at end of season

Was done years before they even thought of it

you know its been said on here before, i would also love to see Manu get a run in the centres, he could be awesome out there and his offloads are sublime!!

fb tansey
rw calderwood
rc yeaman
lc hall
lw briscoe
so horne
sh long
p dowes
h berrigan
p o' meley
sr radford
sr manu
lf fitzgibbon

sub cusack
sub lauaki
sub washbrook
sub tickle

18th man whiting

1.Tansey
2.calderwood
3.Yeaman
4.Hall
5.Briscoe
6.Horne
7.Long
8.O.meley
9.Berrigan
10.Dowes
11.Tickle
12.manu
13.fitzgibbon

14.cusack
15.Moa
16.Lauaki
17.houghton

18.whiting

I also agree I would love to see manu played in the centre his strong wide running and great off loads would destroy most sl flanks! I dont think Agar will ever do this though

It's an OK option as emergency cover but dont think it's a great move if i'm honest. We have skillful creative players like Hall, Turner, Whiting and Yeaman to play centre if T Briscoe is going to play on the wing. From a balance of the team perspective i think we get far more benefit from using 2 of those 4 in the centres and using Manu as the impact 2nd row. Manu and Yeaman for example down a channel given good ball would put the fear of god into most defences... if given good ball. Thats what it all comes down to for me.

Seriously I agree with you completely Manu in the second row however he does offer reasonable cover in the centre when the inevitable injury crisis hits in MArch.

Yeaman is a skillful player, didnt say he could pass the ball though.

4 weeks later than usual, then.

Not to the scale it is today. Cunningham got injured and Roby did such a good job that they started spelling the hookers. Now most teams sub the hooker. Before that teams never really went with 2 specialist hookers.

Lee Jacko and Swainy never needed subbing.

To carry 2 Hookers we colud play Berro at 6, Horne at Fullback and move Tansey to centre with Turner moving to the bench as cover.