Matt Cook, Jamie Langley, Rikki Sheriffe, Sam Burgess, Paul Sykes, Nick Scruton, Steve Menzies, Terry Newton, Elliott Whitehead, Kieran Hyde, Dave Halley, Tom Olbison, Andy Lynch, Craig Kopczak, Ben Jeffries, Semi Tadulala, Michael Worrincy, Michael Platt, David Solomona.


Good to see Hyde, Whitehead and Olbison in there. Two out of those three to drop out.

Should line up like :

Halley
Sheriffe
Sykes
Platt
Tadulala
Menzies
Jeffries
Lynch
Newton
Kopzcak
Langley
Cook
Burgess

Scruton
Worrincy
Solomona
Hyde/Olbison/Whitehead

What positions do Hyde/Olbison/Whitehead play?

One of them is going to get a run out for certain.

I think Platt in the Centre isn't a bad call, it may turn out he is better suited to centre

They may put Hyde in to cover Centres with Platt, otherwise the others will be there to cover SR or Prop.

as I posted on the other thread

Difficult choice for centres this week,
think id go for

Halley
Tadulala
Platt
Sykes
Sheriffe
Menzies
Jeffries
Lynch
Newton
Burgess
Solomona
Cook
Langley

Kopczak
Worrincy
Scruton
Whitehead/Olbison

OK - stopped being lazy and had a look

Hyde FB
Whitehead SR
Olbison SR

Think it maybe Whitehead or Olbison the gets the nod

Probably, but if Platt just fu/cks up then it would be useful to give Hyde a shot in the centres.

That could be a Warrington fan speaking.

On Good Friday we had Grix at left centre and Vinnie Anderson at right (Johnson on right wing, King on the left).

On Monday, King moved back into the centres when Anderson was out.

And we started the season with our first choice centres as Martin Gleeson and Matt King with Paul Johnson as back up. Crazy.

just a couple of minor changes. Think Menzies is more effective at than standoff and stuck hyde in so if platt does struggle at we at least have options, Although I suspect could be a good position for platt long term.
Hopefully we'll make more use of kopczak and scruton to take some of pressure of lynchy.

Does Platt/can Platt play centre? Has he ever?

I'm jut waiting now for the first of the anti-Platters to come on and make a one-word edit to that...

I know Menzies has been named at stand off for the past two games but he actually lines up at right centre. It seems to work ok, and he's seems better in defence than Sykes who I'd leave at stand off.

Going on Solomona's performance at Wakey he'd have to train very well this week to get in the 17.

We have violent agreement there.

IMO its as good a time as any to bring in Whitehead or Olbison for a debut.

Or indeed both. You can't have too many second rows in a side.

don't think he's ever been tried there for a full game. He's relatively decent attack wise with a bit of pace and any of his trademarks at will usually be further down field and we'll have a chance to recover. pair him with semi and menzies with sheriffe so we have at least one strong defensive player at each side. Problem with fullback is any mistakes usually lead to a try so its a position where any defensive errors have a bigger impact than normal. Given the players available our only other options,without using platt, are cook/langley at neither of whom have ever impressed me there or move semi to , halley to wing and hyde to FB which strikes me as too much disruption on a short turnaround.

surely he wont get a starting spot this week based on monday, clearly not match fit. Bench spot at best and bring him on in late stages when he might be able to take advantage of a tiring opposition.

Cook was originally a centre wasn't he?

Think he has to be in in order to get some match fitness, but from the bench as an impact player agreed.
He has the ability to turn the game. If he doesn't drop the ball that is...

yep but bulked up a bit since then. always looked more at home in 2nd row imo. has covered in past for us during games so is an option.

Why on earth do people have this obsession of wanting to see Michael Platt play centre? I just can't see the benefit. Same with Tame when he was here as well. Hasn't that Hyde lad played a bit of halfback? Didn't he get selected for England as a 6? Personally for this weeks game I would go with this line up.

Halley. Sheriffe. Sykes. Menzies. Tadulala. Solomona. Jeffries. Kopczak. Newton. Lynch. Cook. Burgess. Langley. Subs. Worrincy. Scruton. Whitehead. Platt.

at standoff, surely you jest

He's played a bit of 7 but not for over 18 months. He was the fullback for the England Academy.

Tom Olbison arrived at the club as a .

Solomona definitely shouldn't play Stand Off, he makes enough errors in the second row.

Why would I be? he's played there quite a few times for us. Also we could play Langley at centre who has also played there numerous times for us.