Re: Your strongest 17 to start 2015 : Sun Jan 18, 2015 3:10 pm  

bewareshadows wrote:

The new match update is pretty good. Very up to the minute

What's this on?

I'm home with ankle injury so can't go

Re: Your strongest 17 to start 2015 : Sun Jan 18, 2015 3:17 pm  

http://www.saintsrlfc.com/match-centre/match/4518

http://www.saintsrlfc.com/match-centre/match/4518

Re: Your strongest 17 to start 2015 : Sun Jan 18, 2015 4:54 pm  

1. Jonny Lomax
2. Tommy Makinson
3. Mark Percival
4. Jordan Turner
5. Adam Swift

6. Travis Burns
7. Luke Walsh

8. Mose Masoe
9. James Roby
10. Kyle Amor
11. Atelea Vea
12. Jon Wilkin
13. Luke Thompson

14. Lance Hohaia
15. Alex Walmsley
16. LMS
17. Greg Richards

Re: Your strongest 17 to start 2015 : Sun Jan 18, 2015 5:59 pm  

1. Lomax
2. Makinson
3. Percival
4. Turner
5. Swift
6. Burns
7. Walsh
8. Amor
9. Roby
10. Walmsley
11. LMS
12. Wilkin
13. Thompson

14. Hohaia
15. Vea
16. Masoe
17. Richards

I'm a believer in LMS as a wide-running back rower, so I'd have Vea on the bench as an impact forward. I've put Richards in the 17 shirt as I think he's a really good grafting front rower, but I wouldn't be surprised to see Savelio challenge him for that spot.

Re: Your strongest 17 to start 2015 : Sun Jan 18, 2015 6:04 pm  

Interesting that Dawson started today. I hope to god we don't go with him over swift.

Re: Your strongest 17 to start 2015 : Mon Jan 19, 2015 8:52 am  

St pete wrote:

Interesting that Dawson started today. I hope to god we don't go with him over swift.

I doubt it not after yesterdays performance!

Re: Your strongest 17 to start 2015 : Mon Jan 19, 2015 9:03 am  

Going off yesterdays performance Greenwood & Savelio are infront of Vea.

Mose looked overweight again but will get fitter over the season.

Lomax did ok but did not link up well but we did have Wilkin at 7.

Deffo start Thompson he looks like he's playing where he left off from the G/F.

Dawson was a surprise start for me but i guess he won't start the season infront of Swift.

Burns looked a real threat at 6 and can't wait for him to link up with Walsh.

Vea Looked lazy and i'm hoping he'll get better.

Re: Your strongest 17 to start 2015 : Mon Jan 19, 2015 9:16 am  

Thompson looks and plays like a seasoned pro already. It's so hard to forget he is just 19. I think he is nailed on for a place in the 17 each week, I don't he needs to be rotated or gradually introduced in to the team; he's already there.

We saw glimpses yesterday of what Burns can offer. He made a couple of half-breaks, very nearly scored and put the crab away with 2 nice passes that could and probably should have lead to tries.

Bit early to judge Vea but admittedly he didn't do much. Greenwood looked hungry to make a point which was good to see.

Re: Your strongest 17 to start 2015 : Mon Jan 19, 2015 9:19 am  

Magic Superbeetle wrote:

I prefer percy on the right, as I think it's his stronger side, and I still have question marks over the defensive frailty of a Percy - swift combo... To get Percy in (and if it's not this year it's next year) it means Turner simple has to move - and I still believe that he showed his utility value in the side at the end of last year.

Lomax
Makinson Percival Jones Swift
Burns Walsh
Amor Roby Masoe
LMS Thompson
Turner

Hohaia Vea Walmsley Richards

Would be my absolute prefered line up. Wilkin and Flanagan just don't have the size to play in the pack for me, and we saw how destructive that pack can be, as it single handed got us through the playoffs. Burns and Walsh working off that pack, feeding those outside backs would be devastating imo! Turner doesn't have to be involved as a playmaker, but I think he'd be great at working off the spine poking at gaps through the middle, and running support off the shoulders of the big guys (aka the role Wellens played for us for so many years) while Lomax works with Walsh and Burns to dictate play.

Not sure who'd be captain in that team though LMS or Walsh at a guess

Don't know if you were there yesterday mate but you'll be pleased to know Percy played right centre.

Re: Your strongest 17 to start 2015 : Mon Jan 19, 2015 9:40 am  

I'd been thinking about Greenwodd lately.
With many of us wanting LMS in the back row, I was worried that Greenwood was going to be starved of chances behind LMS, Vea, Wilkin, Flash, Thompson and Jones.
I was thinking a season long loan might be the answer, but I'm excited by the news he looks to be kicking on and won't need any such remedial treatment to help his development.
He got a big frae on him, so if he's starting to pck on the meat, he could be a very impressive forward.