Re: Widnes : Mon Jan 28, 2013 10:52 am  

Broncos by 30, attendance 1726.

[brian2]

Re: Widnes : Mon Jan 28, 2013 11:15 am  

Fullback: Dorn/Dixon/Robertson
Wings: Colbon/Dixon/JOC/Robertson/Melling
Centres: anyone of 6 for right centre: (JOC, Channing, Sargy, Hurst; Cook, Grady, Lovell);
Howell at 4
Half back: Dorn/Witt/Sargy
Only certainty is Gower

Robertson limped off very badly at the end of the Catalan game, so i suspect he may well be out.

i thought dixon was very good at full-back v Catalan and used the new rule of sprinting back to the 20 and tapping straight off very cleverly. But Dorn also played well and they interchange. So here is my starter:

Dixon
O'C
Hurst
Howell
Colborn
Dorn
Gower

witt and melling on bench

[brian2]

Re: Widnes : Mon Jan 28, 2013 11:16 am  

Ooh and will take a win, we beat them last year with the last pass of the game - i hope not the same, ideally +10, i hope for 2,500

Re: Widnes : Mon Jan 28, 2013 1:23 pm  

Start of the season so it will be an above average crowd. A victory.

Re: Widnes : Mon Jan 28, 2013 3:01 pm  

I'd also like to add I'm insanely excited. The season's starting! The Broncos havent lost a game or conceded a point yet. Invincible! Here's hoping for a playoff berth and a sniff of the cup (and Skolars promoted and Hemel in the playoffs while I'm at it)

Re: Widnes : Mon Jan 28, 2013 4:45 pm  

Apparently. they will be without Kevin Brown so that is one less player to worry about. Still strangely optimistic and why not at the start of the season.

Re: Widnes : Mon Jan 28, 2013 5:26 pm  

brian2 wrote:

Robertson limped off very badly at the end of the Catalan game, so i suspect he may well be out.

i thought dixon was very good at full-back v Catalan and used the new rule of sprinting back to the 20 and tapping straight off very cleverly. But Dorn also played well and they interchange. So here is my starter:

Dixon
O'C
Hurst
Howell
Colborn
Dorn
Gower

witt and melling on bench

You have the benefit of having seen Hurst play. What do you make of him?
I wondered if TR started him and Channing at centre so that he could make a direct comparison.

Re: Widnes : Mon Jan 28, 2013 5:48 pm  

BroncOnIon wrote:

You have the benefit of having seen Hurst play. What do you make of him?
I wondered if TR started him and Channing at centre so that he could make a direct comparison.

Channing isn't good enough to play Centre. 2012 proved that if nothing else.

Re: Widnes : Mon Jan 28, 2013 5:53 pm  

Snoopy wrote:

Channing isn't good enough to play Centre. 2012 proved that if nothing else.

He got walked all over by the French when he played for Wales, Hurst is a bit of a live wire.

Re: Widnes : Mon Jan 28, 2013 5:59 pm  

Rascal Bongo Stork wrote:

I'd also like to add I'm insanely excited. The season's starting! The Broncos havent lost a game or conceded a point yet. Invincible! Here's hoping for a playoff berth and a sniff of the cup (and Skolars promoted and Hemel in the playoffs while I'm at it)

I assume you mean in the SL season and you hadn't forgotten the 6 we let in v Skolars or the 22 v Dragons!