: Tue Feb 24, 2009 5:14 pm  

Is Jon Clarke ready for a return? Don't underestimate his influence on our defensive structure.

: Tue Feb 24, 2009 5:47 pm  

mark_m wrote:

Is Jon Clarke ready for a return? Don't underestimate his influence on our defensive structure.

And Wainwright, I think our left side defence would be massively improved if Wedge was there

: Tue Feb 24, 2009 5:48 pm  

Wires71 wrote:

Agreed, Riley was poor on Saturday and seems to escape a lot of criticism in that performance. I just don't get the Riley love-in.

Totally agree, it had become trendy to bum Riley and slate Penny when Penny has much more of an upside.

: Tue Feb 24, 2009 5:58 pm  

Briers Is God wrote:

And Wainwright, I think our left side defence would be massively improved if Wedge was there

Oh to be an important yet completely unappreciated cog in the Wire machine!

: Tue Feb 24, 2009 6:04 pm  

Personally I'd leave Riley at full back. He didn't have a great game but then who did. Imo we should leave him there and let him develop his game from there. We may aswell keep our right sided attack of Gleeson and Hicks playing together if the left isn't getting any consistency of who is playing and to what standard they are performing. King didn't do too bad on the wing last week and i'd probably leave Bridge at centre for now although I'd rather see him at 6.
When is Reardon fit? How do you think King centre and Reardon as his wing would work? We all know he doesn't play well with Penny and god knows how long he'll be out of favour with Jimmy.
I still think we should be rotating our hookers. As mentioned on another thread Higham tires after 60 and is someone the opposition are targeting so maybe a return for Clarke from the bench this week. Wouldn't mind seeing Mitchell get a run in the squad if as expected we lose Benny for a few games.

Riley
Hicks
Gleeson
Bridge
King
Briers
Monaghan
Morley
Higham
Carvell
L. Anderson
Mitchell
V. Anderson

Rauhihi
Wood
Clarke
Blythe

: Tue Feb 24, 2009 8:07 pm  

Fletcher-end-red wrote:

Personally I'd leave Riley at full back. He didn't have a great game but then who did. Imo we should leave him there and let him develop his game from there. We may aswell keep our right sided attack of Gleeson and Hicks playing together if the left isn't getting any consistency of who is playing and to what standard they are performing. King didn't do too bad on the wing last week and i'd probably leave Bridge at centre for now although I'd rather see him at 6.
When is Reardon fit? How do you think King centre and Reardon as his wing would work? We all know he doesn't play well with Penny and god knows how long he'll be out of favour with Jimmy.
I still think we should be rotating our hookers. As mentioned on another thread Higham tires after 60 and is someone the opposition are targeting so maybe a return for Clarke from the bench this week. Wouldn't mind seeing Mitchell get a run in the squad if as expected we lose Benny for a few games.

Riley
Hicks
Gleeson
Bridge
King
Briers
Monaghan
Morley
Higham
Carvell
L. Anderson
Mitchell
V. Anderson

Rauhihi
Wood
Clarke
Blythe

From RFL web site:

They are also facing up to the likelihood of being without new signing Garreth Carvell, the former Hull FC prop, for a lengthy period after he damaged knee ligaments on his home debut.

“We’re still waiting on the final scan results but it looks like he won’t be featuring for us for the next few weeks,” said coach James Lowes.

“He had the scan yesterday and we’re waiting for the specialist to get back to us.”

Looks like you've lost Carvell for a few weeks but it says that Clarke is back in the 19.