: Thu Mar 05, 2009 4:17 pm  

The reserve team should be quite interesting on Saturday at Orrell.

: Thu Mar 05, 2009 4:19 pm  

it's a no brainer same team

: Thu Mar 05, 2009 4:20 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

The reserve team should be quite interesting on Saturday at Orrell.

McIllorum, Mathers, Prescott, Pryce & Goulding. You would expect all 5 to tear in, in an attempt to reclaim their first team places.

TBH Pryce & Prescott should be the first to reappear. Baring an injury crisis, we might not see much of the other 3 all year.

: Thu Mar 05, 2009 4:38 pm  

AJ wrote:

McIllorum, Mathers, Prescott, Pryce & Goulding. You would expect all 5 to tear in, in an attempt to reclaim their first team places.

TBH Pryce & Prescott should be the first to reappear. Baring an injury crisis, we might not see much of the other 3 all year.

Doubt Pyrce and McIllorum will play for the reserves on Saturday for the reserves. Somebody could get injured in the warm up for the first team game so Pyrce or McIllorum would be needed.

: Thu Mar 05, 2009 4:47 pm  

Same again then, but monitoring Pryce closely in the reserves with a view to him coming into the centre spot in the not too distant if performances in the reserves are deserving. Tempted to chuck him in against his old team as he has a bit to prove but think it maybe a week too early.

: Thu Mar 05, 2009 4:49 pm  

jonh wrote:

Same again then, but monitoring Pryce closely in the reserves with a view to him coming into the centre spot in the not too distant if performances in the reserves are deserving. Tempted to chuck him in against his old team as he has a bit to prove but think it maybe a week too early.

I agree but I think we need to get through the next two games before we look to bring him into the centres.

: Thu Mar 05, 2009 4:49 pm  

jonh wrote:

Same again then, but monitoring Pryce closely in the reserves with a view to him coming into the centre spot in the not too distant if performances in the reserves are deserving. Tempted to chuck him in against his old team as he has a bit to prove but think it maybe a week too early.

Same for McIllorum too IMO. Riddell had better step it up to something approaching the form that made IL buy him because ATM he is the worst of 3.

: Thu Mar 05, 2009 5:26 pm  

fazwigan4eva wrote:

Doubt Pyrce and McIllorum will play for the reserves on Saturday for the reserves. Somebody could get injured in the warm up for the first team game so Pyrce or McIllorum would be needed.

Pryce needs games doubt they would wait around for the extremely small chance someone might get injured in the warm up

: Thu Mar 05, 2009 5:38 pm  

Think Pryce will be left out but think he needs game time in the reserves to build match fitness. Against Cass looked promising but looked only 60% fit. needs game time. would like to see him come in after couple of weeks on bench with baily playing centre and allow Pryce to come on for bailey and move bailey upto second row.

: Thu Mar 05, 2009 5:39 pm  

My team would be: Pat Richards Amos Roberts Karl Pryce (If fit - I've always seen him as a centre Phil Bailey otherwise.) George Carmont Sean Ainscough Sam Tomkins Thomas Leuluai Stuart Fielden Michael McIlorum Andy Coley (Only because Prescott isn't fit apparently and we need 4 props) Harrison Hansen Sean O'loughlin (Always seen him as a second row) Joel Tomkins (Always seen him as a loose forward) ------------------------------------------- Gareth Hock Eamon O'carroll Mark Riddell Feka Paleaasina Dropping Tim Smith would be a start for me and start Sam Tomkins. For my reasons why see: http://forums.rlfans.com/viewtopic.php?t=397294&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=45 Gareth Hock should not start matches. A bit like Feka. He has far greater impact off the bench when defenses are tired. It was a ploy we used during the play offs and proved very successful with a MOTM performance against Bradford and earning himself a test spot subsequently. He has also missed 11 tackles (that's one less than Smith) he has been found suspect in defense a few times this season and I've noticed when he has started games we have had a poor start and when Harrison Hansen comes on we look (defensively) stronger & so to get off to a good start I think we should start Hansen and then for when defenses seem to tire and we pick up our game bring on Gareth Hock for greater impact. Michael McIlorum should get a game. Apart from his discipline he has had a very strong start to the season and has looked our best hooker so far IMO. I really rate this lad as I've mentioned a few times before and I do not see why people would like to see him dropped. The reason why I would have Eamon O'carroll on the bench is a complicated one but one with good reason. Stuart Fielden and Eamon O'carroll statistically are our best defenders (in terms of prop forwards) and so subsequently I would like to try and balance out the two. Rather than having Feka and Andy Coley on at the same time if we started Eamon O'carroll I would like to always have at least O'carroll or Fielden on at any given point in the match because otherwise with Feka and Coley we leave ourselves very vulnerable in defense.

My team would be: Pat Richards Amos Roberts Karl Pryce (If fit - I've always seen him as a centre Phil Bailey otherwise.) George Carmont Sean Ainscough Sam Tomkins Thomas Leuluai Stuart Fielden Michael McIlorum Andy Coley (Only because Prescott isn't fit apparently and we need 4 props) Harrison Hansen Sean O'loughlin (Always seen him as a second row) Joel Tomkins (Always seen him as a loose forward) ------------------------------------------- Gareth Hock Eamon O'carroll Mark Riddell Feka Paleaasina Dropping Tim Smith would be a start for me and start Sam Tomkins. For my reasons why see: http://forums.rlfans.com/viewtopic.php?t=397294&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=45 Gareth Hock should not start matches. A bit like Feka. He has far greater impact off the bench when defenses are tired. It was a ploy we used during the play offs and proved very successful with a MOTM performance against Bradford and earning himself a test spot subsequently. He has also missed 11 tackles (that's one less than Smith) he has been found suspect in defense a few times this season and I've noticed when he has started games we have had a poor start and when Harrison Hansen comes on we look (defensively) stronger & so to get off to a good start I think we should start Hansen and then for when defenses seem to tire and we pick up our game bring on Gareth Hock for greater impact. Michael McIlorum should get a game. Apart from his discipline he has had a very strong start to the season and has looked our best hooker so far IMO. I really rate this lad as I've mentioned a few times before and I do not see why people would like to see him dropped. The reason why I would have Eamon O'carroll on the bench is a complicated one but one with good reason. Stuart Fielden and Eamon O'carroll statistically are our best defenders (in terms of prop forwards) and so subsequently I would like to try and balance out the two. Rather than having Feka and Andy Coley on at the same time if we started Eamon O'carroll I would like to always have at least O'carroll or Fielden on at any given point in the match because otherwise with Feka and Coley we leave ourselves very vulnerable in defense.