Would people really pick Stark over Crooks?

It has to be Crooks on the wing, no other sensible option.

Winger is a specialist position nowadays, think I'd rather go with colbon, preferably with Crooks as his centre.

Lets not fall back into Agar's habit of playing people out of position. That means Crooks in the centres and Colbon on the wing. Colbon won't set the world alight but he's an experienced SL winger who is good defensively and carries the ball out well.

If I was honest, I'd say Colbon would be a better defender than Crooks and I daresay not as prone to jump out into no-mans land (Copyright Stevo 1998-2014) as Lineham does.

i agree, round pegs in round holes

Tbf where i was sat it didn't look like he put it on report. Just brought in the captain and bowden but not sign. Just penalty given

While Crooks isn't a winger, he has played on the wing a few times, playing Colborn who has only played one first team game (In the championship) in 6 months were he didn't stand out, in fact looked unfit and low on confidence isnt the solution IMO.

Crooks is still our best attacking player IMO and needs to get playing, this wont be doing his confidence any good.

With Lineham out of the team we have lost a lot of pace in the threequarters so Crooks must play, but he should play in his specialist position of centre (in place of Whiting) with Colbon on the wing.

Not a big fan of moving players, but sometimes it has to be done and it worked this week moving Heremia and Whiting.

I would play Colborn if he had more than 1 game in the last 7 months, doesn't the fact that he looked average playing in a lower league worry people?

I understand yours concerns But thinking about it I would have less bringing Colbon straight in on the wing and Crooks in the centre than Crooks on the wing and Whiting or Arundel playing centre.

Rather give Stark a go in all honesty. Yeah he's small but he had a very good pre season. Took high balls well and ran with 100% commitment. Certainly likes to get stuck in.
Doubt many will agree like but give him ago instead of Colbon.

I thought Stark looked Ok, did well considering is size, but didn't stand out IMO.

Would be madness to play him in such a big game.

Agree with this

To be fair I don't think the Bradford game was one where you could judge if moving players around worked. Whiting got done on his outside by Purtell which is a worry.
Against a team in form we need to be 100% sure that players are playing to the best of their abilities, in my opinion playing a winger on the wing and a centre at centre gives us a better chance of that happening than a centre on the wing and a 2nd rower at centre.

I totally agree, i have stated that I dont think Whiting and Heremia are the best people to play the positions they did last week.

I would happily put a winger on the wing, if we had a fit winger that I feel was capable of doing a job against Cas, but at this time I am not confident Colborn is that man.

I really hope that if he selected I am wrong and he goes on to have a stormer and score a couple of trys, but just think we would be better with Crooks on the wing for this game, Cas will be very concerned about him after he scored 4 trys there last year.