If the academy lads are good enough then they will get a game its simple really. I want to see the strongest team, yes it would be nice to have a team full of players that we have developed but you cant be sentimental in sport.

Difficult to select a team having not seen so many players play but id go with....

Cockayne
Sio
Goulding
Welham
Mantellato
Kelly
Campese
Bailey
Carlisle
Weyman
McCarthy
Larroyer
Donaldson

Allgood
Walker
Horne
Blair

He has a twisted testicle.

Stan I hope you are trying to be being jovial rather than trying to make a serious point.

Terry Campese played 19 NRL games in 2014 despite being dropped when available for selection for the final 5 rounds. He played 17 NRL games in 2013. His horror injury seasons were 2011 & 2012.

The big issue with Campese isn't his current state of health it is whether he can ever be the player he was prior to his run of injuries of 2011 and 2012.

Any player can get injured at any time but your implication that Campese will inevitably be injured from round 1 or soon after is nothing more than self indulgent mischief making.

Terry Campese is a gamble of course. Even the very best players - and he does fall into that category -rarely fall into decline and than come back better than ever. That's a serious question mark. But not your ridiculous suggestion that immediate season ending injury is inevitable.

Jovial? Stan? More like

I am liking laughing at Stan's pessimism, although I do share it with less fervour.

Mainly I like laughing at Stan because he invariably has the upper hand on me.

He has really greasy hair though and a lisp.

And I have great hair, possibly beyond great.

I wath being perfectly serwios. Gweasy hair? how vewy dare you...