1. Briscoe

2. Fox
3. Ratu - Welham has been poor in pre season. Defensively he has been very poor and could cost us dear.
4. Webster
5. Colbon

6. Cooke
7. Dobson

8. Vella
9. Murrell - He has been told he is our number 9, so to shift him from that position in the first game wouldnt be right.
10. Wheeldon

11. Newton
12. Taylor - Think he has earned his place over pre season and should be given a shot.

13. I'Anson - I am probably one of his biggest critics, but to be fair, hes been one of the better players in pre-season, however GALEA, if fit.

14. Cockayne - Ahead of Hodgson, who hasn't really done anything to impress me.
15. Cook
16. Watts - Like Taylor, I think he has earned his shot.
17. Lovegrove

Hmmmm, already starting to look a little threadbare, and we havent even started the season yet.

On the basis of the pre-season games , it looks to me that GML may well have the starting line -up , though I would like to see Fisher feature on the bench.

No, the wishes of your fans who posted which opposition player they would like to see the so called togan mafia injure was well and truly scuppered.
Just as a matter of interest i wonder if your mods will let that thread continue throughout the season.?

He has Welham in his team. On the basis of pre season, I wouldnt have him in my team.

Or, unlikely and unprecedented as it may seem, it could be that the severity of the injury was a tad overstated by Morgan. £1 says Galea will pass a late fitness test as a "timely boost" for Rovers opener.

1. Briscoe
2. Fox
3.Whelham
4. Webster/Ratu
5. Colbon
6. Cockayne
7. Dobson
8. Vella
9. Murrell
10. Wheeldon
11. Newton
12. Cook/Netherton
13. Cooke



14. Ratu/I'Anson
15. Hodgson
16. Watts
17. Lovegrove


18. Taylor

Presumably you also condemn the Rovers fans who have laughed at CLINT Newton's attack on Sean Long. You not being a hypocrite, I mean.

I will watch the tackle again before i judge it to be an attack.
He cleaned him out alright.
The only question being was it late.
If not then a great hit.

And if it was late then a spineless attack on the opposition's smallest player.

Interesting he didn't hit Manu, Fitz, O'Meley, Lauaki or Moa late.

He might be spineless but I'd deffo bang his sis

JTP doesn't need to tell him. Let's see the DVD first and then we can make a judgement. If it's shown to be a cowardly and thuggish late shot, we can rely O'Meley and co telling Newton themselves in the next derby. "One in, all in."

Why wouldn't I tell him? I've been in rucks with harder blokes than clint newton. People have this opinion that rugby players are some kind of hard cases, which some are, but I know dozens of blokes who could knock 10 bells out of the likes of newton.

Anyway, I'd just let him smack me and see him in court