Re: Squad for Celtic Crusaders : Thu Feb 19, 2009 2:25 pm  

Greavsie wrote:

Byrne, Hall, Briscoe, Calderwood, Yeaman, R. Horne, G. Horne, Thorman, Dowes, Cusack, Maloney, Thackray, Berrigan, Houghton, Tickle, Burnett, Manu, Radford, Washbrook.

same as last week exceprt King has been replaced by Maloney.

My team from that would be:
Byrne
Calderwood
G Horne
Yeaman
Briscoe
R Horne
Thorman
Cusack
Berrigan
Dowes
Radford
Tickle
Washbrook

Houghton
Thackery
Manu
Burnett/Maloney

Hall to miss out with one of Maloney/Burnett.

I'd be tempted to play Burnett and let Radford move up to prop if needed.

Re: Squad for Celtic Crusaders : Thu Feb 19, 2009 2:27 pm  

fcthefuture wrote:

Kingy is carrying a slight shoulder injury thats why he's been pulled from the 19 .

i thought it might be otherwise it would have been a great chance for him to get more minutes under his belt.
next week against Catalan (on paper) should be the harder game, so its only right he is rested for that, good chance now for maloney to show hes ready to challenge kingy for a place in the 17.

Re: Squad for Celtic Crusaders : Thu Feb 19, 2009 2:31 pm  

Big Dave T wrote:

My team from that would be:
Byrne
Calderwood
G Horne
Yeaman
Briscoe
R Horne
Thorman
Cusack
Berrigan
Dowes
Radford
Tickle
Washbrook

Houghton
Thackery
Manu
Burnett/Maloney

Hall to miss out with one of Maloney/Burnett.

I'd be tempted to play Burnett and let Radford move up to prop if needed.

agree with you on that one Dave

: Thu Feb 19, 2009 2:34 pm  

Byrne
Calderwood
G Horne
Yeaman
Briscoe
R Horne
Thorman
Cusack
Berrigan
Dowes
Burnett
Tickle
Radford

Houghton
Manu
Thackery
Maloney

Thought Burnett was better than Washbrook on Friday so he deserves to keep his spot.

: Thu Feb 19, 2009 2:34 pm  

geven that Celtis weak point is the opposition running from dummy half i would expect Houghton to be on the bench

: Thu Feb 19, 2009 3:12 pm  

The Hollywood Frasier wrote:

Byrne
Calderwood
G Horne
Yeaman
Briscoe
R Horne
Thorman
Cusack
Berrigan
Dowes
Burnett
Tickle
Radford

Houghton
Manu
Thackery
Maloney

Thought Burnett was better than Washbrook on Friday so he deserves to keep his spot.

Thats how I see it as well.

Re: Squad for Celtic Crusaders : Thu Feb 19, 2009 3:16 pm  

fcthefuture wrote:

Kingy is carrying a slight shoulder injury thats why he's been pulled from the 19 .

thats right, kingy hurt his ac joint before last weeks game

: Thu Feb 19, 2009 4:56 pm  

The Hollywood Frasier wrote:

Byrne
Calderwood
G Horne
Yeaman
Briscoe
R Horne
Thorman
Cusack
Berrigan
Dowes
Burnett
Tickle
Radford

Houghton
Manu
Thackery
Maloney

Thought Burnett was better than Washbrook on Friday so he deserves to keep his spot.

I'd be tempted to go with just three props, with Dowes and Cusack both capable of playing pretty much the full game if needed, Thackray probably needing a bit more game-time than he had last week and Radford able to move up if necessary. I think it would be useful to get Washbrook a bit more time on the pitch, more important than giving Maloney a run-out (especially as both King and Moa will probably be ahead of him when available).

And I'd love to see Hall at fullback as his broken field running could be devastating against a sometimes disorganised Celtic line, but there's no way Byrne will be dropped.

: Thu Feb 19, 2009 4:56 pm  

byrne, calders, ghorne, yeaman, briscoe, rhorne, thorman
dowes, berro, cusack, radders, tickle, washy
bench: manu, houghton, maloney, thackray

would deffo go with houghton off the bench

king, motu, whiting, raynor, moa, burnett, hall and hopefully crocker so still one or two to come back to strengthen the squad in the future if need be.

: Thu Feb 19, 2009 4:58 pm  

trys'r'us wrote:

I'd be tempted to go with just three props, with Dowes and Cusack both capable of playing pretty much the full game if needed, Thackray probably needing a bit more game-time than he had last week and Radford able to move up if necessary. I think it would be useful to get Washbrook a bit more time on the pitch, more important than giving Maloney a run-out (especially as both King and Moa will probably be ahead of him when available).

And I'd love to see Hall at fullback as his broken field running could be devastating against a sometimes disorganised Celtic line, but there's no way Byrne will be dropped.

good points