Given that he said "Washy has to be our 13 next year" I'd assume he'd play loose forward.

My pack:-

Cusack
Berrigan
O'Meeley
Manu
Fitzgibbon
Washbrook

Moa
Lauaki
Houghton
Tickle/Burnett

Lauaki can come on and play prop or play wider with Fitzgibbon filling in at prop. Tickle/Burnett can be used to cover Manu. Manu is better off the bench but I don't like the dea of Manu, Lauaki and Moa all coming on at the same time. It would give excellent impact but it leaves us short of impact at the start of the match.

He won't be though as agar will play radford or fitz at LF.

IMO we should have let tickle go. He's off at the end of the season anyway and we have far too many back rowers. Would have freed up a decent chunk of cap and let us bring in another 1/2 back potentially. As it is I can see washy, turner and burnett missing out on a regular basis

I agree with that but how do we know tickle actually wanted to go this year? I personally would have tickle ahead of Burnett atm. He can learn from someone like fitz and come in as a starter in 2011.
I'd have
Cusack
Berrigan
O'meley

Fitz
Manu
Washy

Lauaki
Moa
Tickle
Houghton

Suppose we could play washy at 6 if Agar ever had the balls to drop Horne.

Agree with all of that

If we don't play a "proper" LF, we will quickly go on the same downward spiral as this year and last year.

Moa for me should be brought on after 25 minutes of each half

God I hope you don't pick the team. 3 back rowers and a hooker on the bench?

I reckon he will be.

THINK MY TEAM WOULD BE



horne
calderwood
hall
yeman
briscoe
tansey
long
omeley
berro
cussack
tickle
fitz
washy

subs
hame, manu, moa,whiting

not in the team raynor,turner,burnett, radders,dowes

i think manu moa and hame are all best played on the bench ,unless you start with moa so you have a power house on the park from the start ,if our halfs can click we have a good enough team to challenge ,i would play horne at FB his days as a top half are behind him i think, and calders and briscoe are our two best wingers now