That's how I see it.

its alright moving tansey but everyone on the board is making wholesale changes to the team which could unbalance the team in the way of consistency, tansey for me you leave at full back as he is going good in attack and defence in that position but as I've mentioned i would drop horne for turner or even whiting, may well be the kick up the ar$e he needs. Bring long back in, calders in with hall his centre and that's it.

Instead of Horne at stand-off, how about Horne to pi55-off and we'll sort the team from there?

The balance of the side is pretty ineffective if you dont have any halves who can make the key plays and take responsibility. Tansey is one of our best players and we need him with the ball in his hands.

As i've mentioned elsewhere i don't know why Agar doesn't give Tansey a open role when where in attack so he comes into the receivers as HB and let horne drop back to be utilised as a support player.

unless theres injuries from 2day then i would line up like this nxt week
1.tansey
2.calderwood
3.turner
4.yeamo
5.briscoe
6.horne
7.long
8.omeeley
9.berrigan
10.radders
11.manu
12.tickle
13.fitzy
subs
14.lauaki
15.moa
16.dowes
17.whiting,houghton

They're not fit, and probably won't be playing next week.

Long is missing on Friday. Lets hope we have learnt a lesson from today.
Crusaders are a better side than people give them credit for.
I would hope that this season we will get a positive reaction from a defeat like this.

Tansey is our go-to player regardless of shirt number when Long's not there. He's our best organiser and has a great dogged attitude. May as well get him as involved as possible. Before today I was against shifting players round but we've got nothing in the halves without Long at all and Tansey is the best alternative IMO.

Indeed.

What happened to Fittzy thought he was a leader?

But not a half back oddly enough

Another very good game from Fitz. He can shoulder the burden of sorting the forwards out pretty well, but it's harsh to expect him to play scrum half as well as putting in 40 odd tackles a game.

I agree he aint a half back but he was the captain today and should have maybe took charge and called a few plays.

Sorry MRS B i didnt mean it to sound harsh, just a bit dissapointed.

How about he did but the other 16 muppets didnt take the lead as well????

Sorry MRS B i didnt mean it to sound harsh, just a bit dissapointed.

Amen to that. Anyone suggesting Fitz failed to play a leadership role today are bonkers. There were at least 3 rounds of the Super Fitz chant in the first half alone after great individual efforts by him. Let's see the stats to see whether or not he led by example.

Whiting to FB, Turner to centre, Washy and Tansey in the halves and Horne dropped.

Spot on Mrs B.

Wasn't there today but both halfs sounded totally anonymous. Hardly heard their names mentioned. Tansey has that spark we need.

In the post match interview, Agar said Long was "probably doubtful" for Friday - whatever the hell that means.

The clown on Blunderside said Fitz had a pretty poor game in his after match commentary.

Washy didn't exactly pull up any trees either.

Agar has known about Longs injury all week. Shocking that we didnt have any creativity at all. 5 drives and a kick tripe!!