Heres my first 17 for the coming season.... what do you think??



FULL BACK - Brett Hodgson



WING - Cudjoe

WING - D Hodgson



CENTRE - Lolesi

CENTRE - Whatuira



HOOKER - Lunt



STAND OFF - K Brown

SCRUM HALF - Drew



2ND ROW - Gilmore

2ND ROW - Fa'alogo



LOOSE FORWARD - Wild



PROP - Mason

PROP - Raleigh



SUBS-



PROP - Crabtree

PROP - Griffin

HOOKER - Faiumu

2ND ROW - Kirmond



That will leave as back up for injuries



robinson, patrick,lawrence,finnegan,aspinwall,horne and grix



think we are light in the prop forward department, only patrick to come in but fa'alogo can also play prop



grix n robinson to come in if drew and brown doesnt work!



Kirmond and wild will prob miss start of season so aspinwall and horne could get the chance to stake there claim for first team spots

FULL BACK - Brett Hodgson



WING - Cudjoe

WING - D Hodgson



CENTRE - lawrence

CENTRE - Whatuira



HOOKER - Lunt



STAND OFF - K Brown

SCRUM HALF - Drew



2ND ROW - Gilmore

2ND ROW - Fa'alogo



LOOSE FORWARD -Faiumu

PROP - Mason

PROP - Griffin



SUBS-



PROP - Crabtree

PROP - Raleigh

utility Lolesi

SH / Hooker Robinson



That is based on injuries atc. however there is a long time to go before round one and anyone can force their way into the team before then.

i dont think faiumu is as effective at loose forward, when hes played there before he hasnt really impressed much, id rather have aspinwall or grix in at LF (thats if wild doesnt make the start of season)



and like to see griffin n crabtree off the bench together..think they make a massive impact !!



apart from that id go along with your team

for my original team i cant pick between putting drew as starter or robinson

Gilmour. The guys name is Gilmour.



I don't understand how people can spell the name of our own players incorrectly. Been a top player for a decade, do him the honour of at least knowing how to spell his name.



Shows how deep we are that some choose not to pick Wild in the XVII. Saying that he'd be in mine.

GILMOUR!!! GILMOUR!! calm down





yeh wild is in my first team everytime... will he be fit for the first game though??? if not would you put faiumu, grix or aspinwall in???

Why is everyone playing a crock Hooker at Scrum Half? Robbo will be at 7.

I think DG must have forgotten about him. Maybe he's not in his Laura Crane Calendar?

I haven't picked it up yet but i thought Wild was injured for the start of the season

Finnegan and Drew and I think Kirkmond will not make start of season.

Drew a bench player at best.



Having a thirty odd year old at Scrum half is crazy talk.



Build for the future.



lolesi and Whatuira were poor last season too. Go for Lawrence and Gilmour

1-B Hodgson

2-Cudjoe

3-Jammer

4-Gilmour

5-D Hodgson

6-Brown

7-Robbo

8-Mason

9-Lunty

10-Fa-alogo

11-Wild

12-Raleigh

13-Drew



14-Fatz

15-Lawrence

16-Griff

17-Crabtree

At th end of last season Brown was talking about Robbo playing at hooker and apparently talkeed to him about it.





Whether Brown sees him going there this season or next it looks like that is where he will be ending up.



I would guess that Brown will be playing some sort of combination of Drew,Robbo and Lunt at 7, 9 and interchange.



Where they end up on the pitch is another matter. I would expect that when Drew and Robbo are on the pitch together that Robbo will be at dummy half and Drew wil be at 1st or second reciever.



Whatever happens i am sure that Brown will surprise us and most importantly use the interchanges very cleverly to give us the creative players we need in the right place at the right time.