Team for Sunday. The mind boggles. : Fri Jun 02, 2017 11:44 am  

Ryan Atkins, Kevin Brown, Mike Cooper, Dominic Crosby, Brad Dwyer, Chris Hill, Jack Hughes, Benjamin Jullien, George King, Tom Lineham, Declan Patton, Kevin Penny, Joe Philbin, Stefan Ratchford, Matty Russell, Andre Savelio, Ashton Sims, Morgan Smith, Joe Westerman.

Threw away a win against Wigan and leaked 78 points in two games... Does Tony change the team or drop out of form players? Does he heck. He keeps the same team aside from 2 forced changes due to injury and suspension.

Lost the plot.

Re: Team for Sunday. The mind boggles. : Fri Jun 02, 2017 11:58 am  

I'd hope for (but not likely to get)

Ratch
Penny
Julien
Atkins
Lineham
Patton
Brown
Hill
Dwyer
Cooper
Philbin
Savelio
Westerman

King
Sims
Smith
Crosby

Re: Team for Sunday. The mind boggles. : Fri Jun 02, 2017 12:01 pm  

Why should he change the team. They have trained well all week.

Re: Team for Sunday. The mind boggles. : Fri Jun 02, 2017 12:29 pm  

Philth wrote:

I'd hope for (but not likely to get)

Ratch
Penny
Julien
Atkins
Lineham
Patton
Brown
Hill
Dwyer
Cooper
Philbin
Savelio
Westerman

King
Sims
Smith
Crosby

I would go with that, maybe at most swap Savelio and Julien around. Doubt either will happen though.

Re: Team for Sunday. The mind boggles. : Fri Jun 02, 2017 12:33 pm  

moving on... wrote:

Ryan Atkins, Kevin Brown, Mike Cooper, Dominic Crosby, Brad Dwyer, Chris Hill, Jack Hughes, Benjamin Jullien, George King, Tom Lineham, Declan Patton, Kevin Penny, Joe Philbin, Stefan Ratchford, Matty Russell, Andre Savelio, Ashton Sims, Morgan Smith, Joe Westerman.

Threw away a win against Wigan and leaked 78 points in two games... Does Tony change the team or drop out of form players? Does he heck. He keeps the same team aside from 2 forced changes due to injury and suspension.

Lost the plot.

Who do you think should be brought in?

Re: Team for Sunday. The mind boggles. : Fri Jun 02, 2017 12:47 pm  

I'd be tempted to swap Lineham with Atkins!

Re: Team for Sunday. The mind boggles. : Fri Jun 02, 2017 1:05 pm  

Smiffy27 wrote:

Who do you think should be brought in?

Well Seeing as certain players are well any truly underperforming. I'd Be looking at the reserves and fringe players to give the so-called 1st team a kick up the booty.

I'd much rather see the team lose with Smith actually showing the fans he acknowledges how bad the team is than see the same team that's been cack all season still getting a game. Brown, Russell and Dwyer for some reason are bullet proof. Christ knows why.

FWIW, for this game I'd go with:


Penny

Lineham
Atkins
Jullien
Jones

Patton
Ratch

Hill
Smith
Sims
Savelio
Hughes
Westerman

Dwyer (You can still see the potential he has, he just needs to screw his head on. Dropping him to the bench over Smith might wake him up)
Cooper
Crosby
Philbn

[Uncle Rico]

Re: Team for Sunday. The mind boggles. : Fri Jun 02, 2017 1:07 pm  

Smiffy27 wrote:

Who do you think should be brought in?

Good point as we have a couple of enforced changes and we haven't seen the 17 yet

Re: Team for Sunday. The mind boggles. : Fri Jun 02, 2017 1:30 pm  

moving on... wrote:

Well Seeing as certain players are well any truly underperforming. I'd Be looking at the reserves and fringe players to give the so-called 1st team a kick up the booty.

I'd much rather see the team lose with Smith actually showing the fans he acknowledges how bad the team is than see the same team that's been cack all season still getting a game. Brown, Russell and Dwyer for some reason are bullet proof. Christ knows why.

FWIW, for this game I'd go with:


Penny

Lineham
Atkins
Jullien
Jones

Patton
Ratch

Hill
Smith
Sims
Savelio
Hughes
Westerman

Dwyer (You can still see the potential he has, he just needs to screw his head on. Dropping him to the bench over Smith might wake him up)
Cooper
Crosby
Philbn

So basically it looks like you'd make one change from the selected squad. I think it's pretty obvious that we can't really make many changes no matter how fed up we are with how we are playing. There just aren't many options. So we are being unrealistic and unfair to expect big changes. So in this matter saying Tony Smith has "lost the plot" is unreasonable.

Re: Team for Sunday. The mind boggles. : Fri Jun 02, 2017 1:39 pm  

It's OK they have had a talk and they are not going to knock on or miss tackles any more.