Fair enough, I personally don't think Radford will pick either at centre. Even Yeaman himself has said he doesn't see himself as a centre anymore.



He should be a squad player, along with Micheals, Radford knows this season his jobs on the line and he can't pick his mates or play safe, we have to kick on and this won't happen with these two in the starting 13.

Nowhere near top 4. The only significant improvement is pritchard. taylor won't be better than paea was and if manu continues his recent form he'll be a downgrade on westerman. Scrabbling about for 7th or 8th again

I think he'll bottle it if things don't go well in the pre season and pick an old experienced side.

Some of the posts I've read from Penrith fans about Manu are not very flattering. What's your opinion of him mate?

There's some players who can a very good job is its kept really basic, Manu and Adam Blair are two. Ask him to do anything "extra" and he can't deal with it.

I didn't say we would finish top 4, just our pack is top 4 potential, I think we will finish 6th, our backs are a bit unknown though.



Taylor will be better than Paea as he offers equal go forward, greater consistency, better defence and plays more minutes, which straight away address your concern, the fact we have Manu and Pritchard allows Ellis to play shorter spells at prop which will hopefully preserve him and him playing prop makes us stronger in the middle.



On last seasons form I would say Westerman was a bottom 4 player, so I'm sure it will be an improvement. Not worried about NRL form as s totally different league as we have seen with the likes of Mini and Kelly.

We'll see. Every year I read outlandish claims about our squad and every year they fail to live up to these unrealistic expectations.

Agree, but we have to and should improve from last year, I think Pearsons target on 3 more wins before the split is realistic.

I don't. The real weaknesses in our squad are hooker, halfs and outside backs, none of which are better than last season. Personally I don't think the forwards will improve enough to cover these deficiencies

I see your point, but we have only really lost Lineham from the backs and signed Fonua and Carlos T, who could be great or terrible.



I'm looking forward to the development of our young backs line Lancaster, Logan, Naughton and Abdul who will hopefully improve with more experience and a good off season in the gym.

we have a far better squad,and more to come ,defo finish higher than last year,usual doom merchants saying we will struggle blah blah blah, lets see

Usual idiots predicting a great season.