Re: squad for friday : Wed Sep 22, 2010 7:23 pm  

St pete wrote:

I wouldn't risk lomax this year now, he never finishes a game and with having kyle back means we could be down to 15 men.

Huh? Lomax finishes games. He went off towards the end of the last one, but he'd played the full 80 for the previous three (since coming back from his quad strain injury). It's Eastmond who can't seem to finish games these days.

Smith and Eastmond would work well because Smith could take care of the tactical kicking and organisation, allowing Eastmond to do his flashy wow stuff.

I just don't believe Eastmond is actually fit. If he does play, I'll be twitching on two fronts: about the actual match and over which tackle is going to send Kyle off.

Re: squad for friday : Wed Sep 22, 2010 8:07 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

Huh? Lomax finishes games. He went off towards the end of the last one, but he'd played the full 80 for the previous three (since coming back from his quad strain injury). It's Eastmond who can't seem to finish games these days.

Smith and Eastmond would work well because Smith could take care of the tactical kicking and organisation, allowing Eastmond to do his flashy wow stuff.

I just don't believe Eastmond is actually fit. If he does play, I'll be twitching on two fronts: about the actual match and over which tackle is going to send Kyle off.

Eastmond has picked up a few quite bad injuries, keeping him out and after the last few times i don't think he would play unless Potter thought he was 100% fit, especially with a possible final the week after. Lomax however, i don't remember seeing him go through a game without going down injured, he is guaranteed to pick up at least 1 injury during a game. He normally carries on and finishes the game, but one day its going to cost us leaving him on the field, but we are able to just push Lomax out on the wing out the way, because he is capable of playing there.

Re: squad for friday : Wed Sep 22, 2010 8:24 pm  

saint billy wrote:

Eastmond has picked up a few quite bad injuries, keeping him out and after the last few times i don't think he would play unless Potter thought he was 100% fit, especially with a possible final the week after.

But Potter and/or Kyle (can't decide which) has considered Kyle fit enough to play on two other occasions and on both occasions he has limped off the pitch with half a match still to go, leaving the team to battle on one halfback down. While injuries can happen to anyone at any time, we don't need the added pressure of starting a match with a known half-fit player. I've lost confidence in whoever it is who keeps declaring Kyle fit enought to play and after his refusal to leave the pitch last time out, I haven't much confidence in Kyle that he knows himself well enough or is willing to accept that he just isn't fit enough to play.

Lomax however, i don't remember seeing him go through a game without going down injured, he is guaranteed to pick up at least 1 injury during a game.

I disagree. He has been playing with one thigh heavily strapped since he came back from injury and so at some point he limps but until the match against Cas he had played the full 80 each time, as enthusiastically as if he didn't have an injury. When he first had that injury I don't know but clearly it isn't fully right. I don't remember him being out with anything other than a quad strain (on more than one occasion). The player who has picked up multiple injuries this season would be Wheeler.

Re: squad for friday : Wed Sep 22, 2010 8:45 pm  

1. Wellens
2. Foster
3. Gidley
4. Meli
5. Lomax
6. Eastmond
7. Smith
8. Puletua
9. Cunningham (c)
10. Graham
11. Soliola
12. Flannery
13. Wilkin

14. Roby
15. Emmitt
16. Dixon
17. Clough

Ade and Bryn to miss out for me. Ade doesn't, IMO, offer much to the team anymore, i cant see anything he can do that lomax can't. I also think lomax has shown great finishing skills whilst on the wing, he's hungry for the ball and has a yard of pace on Ade. I can never knock Bryn's enthusiasm but has seem to be getting knocked back to me over the past couple of weeks. Against a big huddersfield pack I struggle to see how he would make decent inroads.

Re: squad for friday : Thu Sep 23, 2010 1:59 pm  

Wellens
Foster
Gidley
Flannery
Meli
Eastmond
Smith
Hargreaves
Cunningham
Graham
Wilkin
Soliola
Puletua

Emmitt
Dixon
Roby
Clough

Gardner and Lomax miss out.

Re: squad for friday : Thu Sep 23, 2010 2:25 pm  

Mr. Messy wrote:

4.Flannery
5.Meli

I don't know if people name what they would go for, or what they expect Potter to choose (which is what I do), but you're the first to revert Meli back to the wing, which is, given this is the strongest squad we've had to choose from in a long while, a distinct possibility.

Re: squad for friday : Thu Sep 23, 2010 2:31 pm  

Mr. Messy wrote:

Wellens
Foster
Gidley
Flannery
Meli
Eastmond
Smith
Hargreaves
Cunningham
Graham
Wilkin
Soliola
Puletua

Emmitt
Dixon
Roby
Clough

Gardner and Lomax miss out.

thats SHOULD be well enough to take on Hudds, or anyone else for that matter

Re: squad for friday : Thu Sep 23, 2010 4:34 pm  

Mr. Messy wrote:

Wellens
Foster
Gidley
Flannery
Meli
Eastmond
Smith
Hargreaves
Cunningham
Graham
Wilkin
Soliola
Puletua

Emmitt
Dixon
Roby
Clough

Gardner and Lomax miss out.

Looks good to me. Harsh on Gardner who's done well recently, but defensively we got exposed down that side against Warrington. Flannery is better in that respect.

Re: squad for friday : Thu Sep 23, 2010 4:41 pm  

Offside Monkey wrote:

I don't know if people name what they would go for, or what they expect Potter to choose (which is what I do), but you're the first to revert Meli back to the wing, which is, given this is the strongest squad we've had to choose from in a long while, a distinct possibility.

I think Lomax, if fit, should play on that wing if Gardner is going to be dropped. Meli is a liability around a loose ball and we don't need that with a couple of good kickers in the opposition. If Gardner is going to be dropped, we should go full tilt and drop Meli as well to tighten up the defence on that side, using Lomax and Flannery instead. Unless Lomax isn't fit of course, in which case from a defence POV I think Gardner would be safer on the wing than Meli, with Flannery as centre.

Re: squad for friday : Thu Sep 23, 2010 4:54 pm  

Wellens
Foster
Gidley
Meli
Lomax
Eastmond
Smith
Graham
Roby
Hargreaves
Wilkin
Clough
Flannery

Soliola
Puletua
Cunningham
Dixon

Gives us an option if eastmond struggles to put soliola to centre, meli to wing and lomax to half back.