23 man squad for Swinton : Fri Jan 06, 2012 11:19 am  

Denis Betts has named the following 23-man squad for the pre-season trial game versus Swinton Lions at Leigh Sports Village on Sunday 8 January. Recently appointed captain Jon Clarke, vice-captain Shaun Briscoe and Rhys Hanbury are all set to make their debuts for the Vikings.

Missing Players

Ben Cross
Anthony Watts
Simon Finnigan
Thomas Coyle
Grant Gore

23 man squad

Dave Allen
Patrick Ah Van
Shaun Briscoe
Alex Brown
Hep Cahill
Jon Clarke
Danny Craven
Ben Davies
Chris Dean
Paddy Flynn
Alex Gerrard
Kurt Haggerty
Rhys Hanbury
Willie Isa
Ben Kavanagh
Macgraff Leuluai
Stefan Marsh
Scott Moore
Anthony Mullally
Jack Owens
Steve Pickersgill
Lloyd White
Frank Winterstein



I would go with

Briscoe
Flynn
Isa
Dean
Ah Van
White
Hanbury
Pickersgill
Moore
Mullally
Winterstein
Cahill
Clarke

Davies
Marsh
Gerrard
Craven
Kavanagh
Haggerty
Lulu
Allen
Brown
Owens

Re: 23 man squad for Swinton : Fri Jan 06, 2012 1:14 pm  

1 Briscoe
2 Flynn
3 Marsh
4 Craven
5 Brown
6 White
7 Hanbury
8 Pickersgill
9 Moore
10 Gerrard
11 Cahill
12 Allen
13 Clarke

Re: 23 man squad for Swinton : Fri Jan 06, 2012 1:31 pm  

I want to see Brown play as deserves a chance.Coyle dropped because Betts has just realised he is Spanglese.

Re: 23 man squad for Swinton : Fri Jan 06, 2012 1:52 pm  

OFFTHECUFF wrote:

I want to see Brown play as deserves a chance.Coyle dropped because Betts has just realised he is Spanglese.

I hope you are kidding?

I watched the Boxing Day game in depth the other day and he was one of our best players. In fact, though I think Scott Moore looked like he is going to be amongst our most influential, his distribution from hooker was much better than Moore's from acting half.

I also noticed that Ian Cheveau awarded Coyle with the Widnes motm in the League Express.

Re: 23 man squad for Swinton : Fri Jan 06, 2012 5:34 pm  

Cuffy likes them young

Re: 23 man squad for Swinton : Fri Jan 06, 2012 6:05 pm  

J20 wrote:

Cuffy likes them young

Your not going the Goose as your boyfriend is banned. Coyle I will never rate as in my opinion a Championship standard player.Well if proves me wrong I will eat my poop.

Re: 23 man squad for Swinton : Fri Jan 06, 2012 7:18 pm  

Swinton by 14.

Re: 23 man squad for Swinton : Fri Jan 06, 2012 9:06 pm  

^
Look who's here. He's like the puppy who went missing months ago and suddenly appears and promptly shats in your front room....but you can't help still loving him!

Re: 23 man squad for Swinton : Fri Jan 06, 2012 9:28 pm  

I only do little sheets though.

Looking forward to the Stobart Vikings, playing in the Stobart Stadium in the Stobart Super League. It's time to "haul" ass. . . .

Re: 23 man squad for Swinton : Sun Jan 08, 2012 11:52 am  

My guess is that we will start something like this:

01. Shaun Briscoe
02. Paddy Flynn
03. Chris Dean
04. Willie Isa/ 20. Stefan Marsh
05. Patrick Ah Van
06. Lloyd White
07. Rhys Hanbury
10. Ben Davies
09. Scott Moore
26. Anthony Mullally
11. Frank Winterstein
12. Hep Cahill
13. Jon Clarke

Subs:
16. Ben Kavanagh
25. Danny Craven
17. Steve Pickersgill
22. Macgraff Leuluai
21. Dave Allen
31. Alex Brown
28. Alex Gerrard
24. Kurt Haggerty
29. Jack Owens

Should be a tough game, with quite a few ex-Widnes players with a point to prove. Swinton look quite strong anyway, so I'm not expecting us to hammer them. I do feel, as a Super League side, we should be expecting a win.

Then again, I would imagine that Salford fans felt the same before kick off yesterday.