Ideally, injury-free, what would your Saints 17 be ?

1. Wellens
2. Gardner
3. Gidley
4. Soliola
5. Meli
6. Pryce
7. Eastmond
10. Graham
9. Cunningham
11. Puletua
12. Wilkin
13. Flannary
14. Roby

8. Fozzard
16. Moore
17. Clough
23. Fa'asavalu

Wellens
2. Gardner
3. Gidley
4. Soliola
5. Meli
6. Pryce
7. Eastmond
10. Graham
9. Cunningham
11. fozzard
12. Wilkin
13. puletua
14. flannery

8. roby
16. Moore
17. Clough
23. Fa'asavalu

1 Wellens/ With Lomax to deputise quite regulary.
2 Gardner
3 Gidley
4 Wheeler
5 Meli
6 Pryce
7 Eastmond
8 Fozzard
9 Moore
10 Graham
11 Soliola
12 Wilkin
13 Roby

14 Puletua
15 Cunningham
16 Clough
17 Maurie

Id play around with the starting pack depending on the size of the oppo pack.
I expect Potter will play Soliola in the centre and have Flannery in the pack.

Wellens
Gardner
Gidley
Soliola
Meli
Pryce
Eastmond
Graham
Cunningham
Fozzard
Flannery
Puletua/Clough
Wilkin

Roby
Moore/Hargreaves
Puletua/Clough
Fa'asavalu

On the VT, i chose Hargreaves over Moore on the bench, however, thinking about it, i think we could afford to have both Roby and Moore on the bench, although it depends who we play. Potter hints on the Saints website that Roby can cover anywhere in the back row as well as obviously hooker and then stand off, so he would be a decent bet on the bench, with Moore coming on at hooker, it would give us plenty of options. When playing teams that are bigger however, then i'd leave Moore out and play Hargreaves to give us an extra out and out prop forward. I'd rather see Puletua in the second row too, with Clough possibly moving into a more prop forward position.

1 - Lomax
2 - Gardner


3 - Gidley
4 - Wheeler
5 - Meli


6 - Pryce
7 - Eastmond
8 - Graham
9 - Cunningham
10 - Fozzard
11 - Wilkin
12 - Soliola
13 - Roby

14 - Moore
15 - Fa'asavalu
16 - Puletua
17 - Clough

24 lomax
2 gardner
3 gidley
1 wellens
5 meli
6 pryce
7 eastmond
8 fozzard
9 cunningham
10 graham
4 soliola
12 wilkin
14 roby

subs
11 puletaua
13 flannery
16 moore
17 clough

Come on, we have Sheriffe on the wing, you've got nothing to complain about!

The Sheriffe wouldn't cost us two Grand Finals with his antics though would he. I'd accept two Matt Callands, things are that bad.

its not that they're bad that winds me up, in the age of salary cap you cant have stars everywhere. Its the fact they're both on internationals' wages!

Wellens
lomax
gidley
pryce
meli
wheeler
eastmond
graham
Cunningham
fozzard
soliola
wilkin
roby

fa'asavalu
puletua
Moore
clough

I think having two inexperienced half backs would be a tad on the daft side when you've got a player of Leon Pryce's quality in the side. I'm sure Harry will have Wheeler alternating at 6 whenever we get the luxury of trying a few things out.

wellens 1 tansey
gardner 2 briscoe
gidley 3 whiting
soliola 4 yeaman
meli 5 hall
pryce 6 horne
eastmond 7 long
fozzard 8 cussack
cunningham 9 berrigan
graham 10 radford
puletua 11 tickle
wilkin 12 lauaki
flannery 13 fitzgibbon

fa'savalu 14 o'meley
roby 15 washbrook
hargreaves 16 dowes
clough 17 manu


moore 18 houghton

I want to see Roby, Cunningham and Moore, but that would take some much-needed beef away from our pack. It's a tough decision for Potter.

This is the team I'd like to see not the one I think we'll see

1.Wellens/Lomax
2.Lomax/Gardner
3.Gidley
4.Soliola
5.Meli (Not too much in the way of options)
6.Wheeler
7.Eastmond
8.Graham
9.Cunningham
10.Fozzard
11.Flannery
12.Wilkin
13.Pryce

Fa'asavalu
Puletua
Moore
Roby

Personally I'd like to see Lomax get gametime at 1 this year , Wello might be pretty safe but he doesnt offer a great deal in attack, plus his contract is up at the end of the year and Lomax could be the ideal replacement.

I'm not sure, he spills alot of ball and can't defend for love nor money.

Sounds rather like Mr Meli.