Full Strength Team : Fri May 29, 2009 9:42 am  

Just a hyperthetical one but, what would your first 17 for wire be if all the players on the squad list were available??

Mathers
Hicks
Bridge
Grix
King
Briers
Monaghan
Morley
Clarke - (despite my sheer hatred for him!!)
Carvell
L Anderson
Westwood
V Anderson - (on recent performance)

Harrison
Wood
Higham
Cooper

I just think that Rauhihi is good but until he controls the passion he has for offloading the ball in silly situations then he should be "rested" - some may say it is good to have a prop that can offload and I have no qualms about that but there is a time and a place and for example against Wigan he couldn't help himself.

Re: Full Strength Team : Fri May 29, 2009 10:01 am  

PWils wrote:

Just a hyperthetical one but, what would your first 17 for wire be if all the players on the squad list were available??

Mathers
Hicks
Bridge
Grix
King
Briers
Monaghan
Morley
Clarke - (despite my sheer hatred for him!!)
Carvell
L Anderson
Westwood
V Anderson - (on recent performance)

Harrison
Wood
Higham
Cooper

I just think that Rauhihi is good but until he controls the passion he has for offloading the ball in silly situations then he should be "rested" - some may say it is good to have a prop that can offload and I have no qualms about that but there is a time and a place and for example against Wigan he couldn't help himself.

Totallt agree about Rauhihi. Unless he curbs his obssession with off-loading I'm afraid he will struggle to have a career at the top level of rugby. Like you say he should be rested until ne has learnt his lesson. Perhaps a spell in the reserves will do him good in the long run.

Re: Full Strength Team : Fri May 29, 2009 10:07 am  

Paul Youane wrote:

Totallt agree about Rauhihi. Unless he curbs his obssession with off-loading I'm afraid he will struggle to have a career at the top level of rugby. Like you say he should be rested until ne has learnt his lesson. Perhaps a spell in the reserves will do him good in the long run.

So you wouldn't give him an extra year?

: Fri May 29, 2009 10:21 am  

no riley

: Fri May 29, 2009 10:21 am  

I think he might be being sarcastic.

Re: Full Strength Team : Fri May 29, 2009 10:32 am  

Paul Youane wrote:

Totallt agree about Rauhihi. Unless he curbs his obssession with off-loading I'm afraid he will struggle to have a career at the top level of rugby. Like you say he should be rested until ne has learnt his lesson. Perhaps a spell in the reserves will do him good in the long run.

I like rah, he has good potential.

Re: Full Strength Team : Fri May 29, 2009 11:05 am  

Dawson wrote:

So you wouldn't give him an extra year?

Seriously would you give him an extra year?

I've spent years being persecuted on here for being all "primrose-and-blue" tinted spectacles yet we win a couple and apparently our squad is full of world beaters.

Consistency is all that I ask for, from players and fans alike.

Either way people will start having an eppy fit saying its a step-down when Smith signs a new prop to replace him. For me Smith will sign players to fit into roles in his team whilst previously we have seemed to find roles for signings whether they were what we truly needed or not.

Re: Full Strength Team : Fri May 29, 2009 11:36 am  

Paul Youane wrote:

I've spent years being persecuted on here

Hee hee,

Re: Full Strength Team : Fri May 29, 2009 12:16 pm  

Dawson wrote:

So you wouldn't give him an extra year?

Would you?

Re: Full Strength Team : Fri May 29, 2009 12:43 pm  

PWils wrote:

Just a hyperthetical one but, what would your first 17 for wire be if all the players on the squad list were available??

Mathers
Hicks
Bridge
Grix
King
Briers
Monaghan
Morley
Clarke - (despite my sheer hatred for him!!)
Carvell
L Anderson
Westwood
V Anderson - (on recent performance)

Harrison
Wood
Higham
Cooper

I just think that Rauhihi is good but until he controls the passion he has for offloading the ball in silly situations then he should be "rested" - some may say it is good to have a prop that can offload and I have no qualms about that but there is a time and a place and for example against Wigan he couldn't help himself.

Bit like the team selcetion Smith has to do for this Saturday really. Only Johno out