Re: Squad complete. What’s your starting 13 + 4 : Sun Nov 27, 2022 1:53 am  

Dufty
Thewlis
Mata'utia
Ratchford
Ashton
Williams
Drinkwater
Harrison
Clark
Vaughan
Currie
Nicholson
McGuire

Walker
Kasiano
Bullock
Mikaele

Beast of a team

Re: Squad complete. What’s your starting 13 + 4 : Sun Nov 27, 2022 11:28 am  

The big question is how Vaughan & McGuire will go.

[Fantastic Mr Catpiss]

Re: Squad complete. What’s your starting 13 + 4 : Sun Nov 27, 2022 11:33 am  

Or thane wrote:

Dufty
Thewlis
Mata'utia
Ratchford
Ashton
Williams
Drinkwater
Harrison
Clark
Vaughan
Currie
Nicholson
McGuire

Walker
Kasiano
Bullock
Mikaele

Beast of a team

Harrison for currie, and dudson starting for me.

Fed up defending currie now, he can love off and there's no way he's in the leadership group this year

Re: Squad complete. What’s your starting 13 + 4 : Sun Nov 27, 2022 12:18 pm  

Fantastic Mr Catpiss wrote:

he can love off

Bit harsh & uncalled for from a Forum Moderator ... have you been hacked?

Re: Squad complete. What’s your starting 13 + 4 : Sun Nov 27, 2022 12:58 pm  

I don't think Harrison is a prop, I do think before the end of the season he will be a starting 2nd row though. Or ar least if he has kicked on with a full pre season he will.

[Winslade's Offload]

Re: Squad complete. What’s your starting 13 + 4 : Sun Nov 27, 2022 1:40 pm  

I think you can write off Philbin and Wrench for this season. I am sure they will play, but after their injuries I suspect it will be 2023 before they make any meaningful contribution.

If you then look at our playing group we only have 20 senior players (and that includes Russel). So we will only need 3 injuries before we start to incorporate the Academy players from the last couple of seasons, and clearly we are going to see quite a lot of this group over the year.

So its interesting to pick your preferred 13 +4, but I suspect our prospects will depend to a degree on how well individuals in the Academy group perform and how astute Powell is in bringing them into play. Over the course of the season it may not be how good our rooks and bishops perform but rather the pawns.

Re: Squad complete. What’s your starting 13 + 4 : Sun Nov 27, 2022 5:58 pm  

Fantastic Mr Catpiss wrote:

Harrison for currie, and dudson starting for me.

Fed up defending currie now, he can love off and there's no way he's in the leadership group this year

His contract expires at the end of 2023.

He needs a big season, or he won`t be staying at Wire.

[Fantastic Mr Catpiss]

Re: Squad complete. What’s your starting 13 + 4 : Sun Nov 27, 2022 6:29 pm  

Smiffy27 wrote:

Bit harsh & uncalled for from a Forum Moderator ... have you been hacked?

Nope 100% me, we got rid of one direct problem in holmes, its making my teeth itch saying currie should still start (also kf saying recently he's happy with our back row options)

I've gone to bat for him on here over the last 4 years when others have said much worse stuff than that. Last season was atrocious and it was nothing to do with his knee.

[Fantastic Mr Catpiss]

Re: Squad complete. What’s your starting 13 + 4 : Sun Nov 27, 2022 6:30 pm  

Boss Hog wrote:

His contract expires at the end of 2023.

He needs a big season, or he won`t be staying at Wire.

I'd probably still not renew him, contract renewal form hasn't done us any favours in recent years.

Too little too late.

Re: Squad complete. What’s your starting 13 + 4 : Sun Nov 27, 2022 7:12 pm  

Fantastic Mr Catpiss wrote:

I've gone to bat for him on here over the last 4 years when others have said much worse stuff than that.

We all know what "love off" means. We don't need to stoop so low.