7 Kickers by my reckoning -
K Locke
J Griffin
R Chase
M Dobson
N Evalds
C Paterson
T Fages

A very strong 17 very excited about the new season

Josh Griffin made 8 appearances for us last year.

They were against:

Castleford - Challenge Cup Finalists, finished above us.
Huddersfield - Finished above us.
Hull FC
Hull KR - Finished above us.
Leeds - Challenge Cup Winners, finished above us.
Wigan - Grand Finalists, finished above us.
London
Widnes - Finished above us.

In that period he scored 8 trys (finishing 4th for the season overall) and 27 goals (finishing 1st overall).

But you're still not convinced by him?

Pointless stats because how many of those games did he play in the centres? I have no problem with him as a winger, infact I think he's a very good one. Plenty of pace and as strong as a prop forward - my issue is, I am unconvinced that he should be one of our two starting centres.

Ah, fair enough



I totally misinterpreted your post.

Apologies.

I think we need two "starting" 17s: if you consider the first week of games we have to contend on Saturday with the wrecking balls of Hill and Simms and the silky skills of Clark, followed in 4 days by the almost equally forceful Masoe and Amor with the equally smooth skills of Roby. We will need to rest someone.
The start concerns me (I can only draw breath that the next game is not against Wigan). At least we can then compare our pack against two of the three best packs in SL: I'll consider then who can sustain a push into the top 8.

These two games stop me from bigging up our chances: they are as serious a litmus test as any team has to face.