Re: Starting 17 : Mon Nov 26, 2018 1:52 pm  

des lawson wrote:

Shaw has to play,his goalkicking could win matches vaivai,would be the one i'd leave out,started great,but was invisible but for short bursts,and then showed us what he can do,and looked to have added a bit of timber towards the season end.Its a tough call which only can be a good sign for us,hopeful for a much improved season.

So you'd advocate for kieran moss all season, but leave vaivai out? I mean everyone is entitled to an opinion but imo this is crackers.

Re: Starting 17 : Mon Nov 26, 2018 4:31 pm  

mean_machine wrote:

So you'd advocate for kieran moss all season, but leave vaivai out? I mean everyone is entitled to an opinion but imo this is crackers.

Moss was better than what we had available last season,was what i was saying.
You would leave one of our 2 new signings out keinhorst or linnett,imo that would be crackers.Who would you leave out for vaivai.??

Re: Starting 17 : Mon Nov 26, 2018 4:46 pm  

craig hkr wrote:

Sneeeyd can kick? Rumours he's on the naughty step and on his way out

Has somebody mentioned sneeeyd ??

Re: Starting 17 : Mon Nov 26, 2018 8:30 pm  

Not on here but seems may be some truth in it? Can't see us being in for him either way tbh. Wigan mentioned as possible.

Re: Starting 17 : Mon Nov 26, 2018 8:34 pm  

Interesting.I would be quite confident we will do ok if we can clinch drinkwaters signing.

Re: Starting 17 : Mon Nov 26, 2018 9:40 pm  

des lawson wrote:

Interesting.I would be quite confident we will do ok if we can clinch drinkwaters signing.

Goes without saying mate. Depth in the halves to play behind a pack that will dominate.

Re: Starting 17 : Tue Nov 27, 2018 12:07 pm  

des lawson wrote:

Moss was better than what we had available last season,was what i was saying.
You would leave one of our 2 new signings out keinhorst or linnett,imo that would be crackers.Who would you leave out for vaivai.??

I did say in my initial team that linnet may be in second row, so both were in. If linnet plays centre then I would not start keinhorst as he hasn't the same level of experience linnet has. Vaivai put tries on a plate and scored a fair few last season, he deserves to keep his place instead of players who are not proven in a KR shirt. Hopefully a full pre season injury free gets him in the shape of his life

Re: Starting 17 : Tue Nov 27, 2018 1:51 pm  

1. Dagger
2. Shaw
3. Vaivai
4. Crooks
5. Hall
6. Maguire
7. Atkin
8. Mulhern
9. Lawler
10.Masoe
11.Linnett
12.Tomkins
13.Addy

14.Garbutt
15.Lawler
16 and 17.2 of Greenwood/Scruton/Jewitt/Lannon/Keinhorst/Johnson/Hauraki

I would hope that Oakes can come of age this year and wrestle a wing spot from Hall or Shaw, as his exit sets and power are amazing for someone so young. That said Hall and Shaw know how to finish tries and will likely start as incumbents.

There are plenty of options across the park, with the exception of Fullback, Half and Hooker (hopefully Lunt regains fitness and quickly). I can see why we are looking at a back up half.

Quietly hopeful for this coming season. Lets hope for some better luck on the injury front this year. With AQ and Lunt not starting the season we have already had our share.

Re: Starting 17 : Wed Nov 28, 2018 4:56 pm  

Zook Ema's Hose wrote:

Goes without saying mate. Depth in the halves to play behind a pack that will dominate.

Who exactly will that pack dominate, looks quite poor to me and your backs look painfully slow tbh. Not saying you're awful but can't see where you've improved much either tbh.

Tomkins and Addy in particular are really poor.

Re: Starting 17 : Wed Nov 28, 2018 5:21 pm  

Our "friends" from the darkside are active again I see. The test of whether any of our signings are good or not is if the darkside start slagging them off then we know that we have a "good un". I think that as this discussion shows with people putting forward their various selection permutations we have strength in depth that we haven't had for a long time. I'm quietly optimistic.