I am just working with Bird, Broughton, Yaha and possibly Batieri all injured adn Gigot suspended.

3. Krisnan INU
4. Brayden WILIAME
5. Fouad YAHA
6. Luke WALSH
7. Richie MYLER
8. Sam MOA
9. Paul AITON
10. Rémi CASTY
12. Justin HORO
14. Julian BOUSQUET
15. Ben GARCIA
16. Thomas BOSC
17. Jason BAITIERI
18. Vincent DUPORT
19. Mickael SIMON
20. Luke BURGESS
21. Iain THORNLEY
23. Alrix DA COSTA
25. Thibaud MARGALET

Moa Yaha and Inu back,so we can get rid of Duport . All good news.

Tellins:

Makinson, Morgan, Percival, Swift, Fages, Walmsley, Roby, Amor, Wilkin, McCarthy-Scarsbrook, Douglas, Walker, Lee, Peyroux, Richards, Knowles, Owens, Ashworth, Taia.

Still not sure what Tommy Lee is doing in a side with title pretensions, but hey ho. Also, am I alone in not rating Cunningham as a coach? Waiting for the Brian McDermott-esque collapse when, say, Roby retires.
Hopefully he'll put Wilkin in as a half-back again. That'll help us.

St Helens fans think Wilkin will play at half back. For us I would go Bosc; Thornley Inu Wiliame Yaha; Walsh Myler;Casty Aiton Moa Garcia Horo Baitieri. Interchange Simon Burgess Bousquet Da Costa .I might be tempted to go with Margalet instead of Simon or Burgess.Looking at last year's game I was very impressed with Albert Yaha and Stewart in our 33-16 win.A final option is to put Wiliame at full back, Bosc as alternative hooker and Duport at right wing,but that would not be universally popular.

yeah id go with that first line up

Thought the ref was dreadful.

Walsh and Myler combo is getting better. Cant get into the habit of letting games like these slip away from us

On Hicks I couldn't agree more. I think you were really hard done to by someone who isn't fit to be on a rugby pitch. He's probably kept Cunningham in a job all by himself.

To be fair I thought Saints were denied two tries incorrectly also . Thought it was a good game eventually both sides much improved but Dragons really should have killed the game early in the second half

freeteams.com/EnglishDragons/new ... ory=159233 I think that sums up my grump fairly accurately...

freeteams.com/EnglishDragons/new ... ory=159233 I think that sums up my grump fairly accurately...

Did not see the game as I was in Dublin for the R.U.-supporting Ireland. It looked like a game we should have won .Yaha's defence when he plays on the right is nowhere near good enough as last year also showed . He must play on the left.

Having looked at Yaha's clueless positioning again I would even prefer Duport on the Right wing

We need some players coming in I fear.

I agree we need to make some signings, no depth in the backs, What does everyone think of Williame ? not much talk on him. I think he's only going to get better as the season goes on, already looking promising in spells but other times just seems to switch off.

can only do so much as a centre, we have gotta get the ball to him. looking very promising tho.

i think the only position we need to sign someone is full back. the gigot fiasco could have ruined our season. we miss his flair and metres coming out of trouble. bosc is good but not at the level for top 4 i don't think. when bird is back the middles will be fine. yaha needs to sort his defence out tho