I think injuries did instigate it on most of those occasions but there were certainly other options in most of those matches other than moving Horne out of the halves. The derby I mentioned being a prime example. Whiting has played at full back before but it was decided to move Horne out of the halves and put Whiting there instead.

I'm just saying that Radders isn't the first coach to make surprising choices in the halves.

I see your point but we have 3 fit halfbacks yet he insists on playing Heremaia out of position

I'm frustrated by it too. Heremeia is much better as an interchange hooker complimenting Houghton.

The much-lauded 'live cap' simply means that a club's cap liability is monitored at all times rather than retrospectively assessed at the end of the season. If you read the cap rules it makes it clear that the cap value of a player does not depend on when he receives the money - or even if he ever does. It's the total value of his contract divided by contract length.

Offering a player a longer contract and then terminating early still reduces your cap liability if you release him between seasons. Basically you offer him 3 years worth of salary spread over 4 years to reduce the per-year cap liability, then release him after 3 years with the rest of his contract paid up. The final year's worth of cap liability simply goes away.

Thomas leuluai isn't getting a game at the warriors !! That would be nice if we could pursued him back to england

www.stuff.co.nz/sport/league/986 ... n-the-game Maybe not then

www.stuff.co.nz/sport/league/986 ... n-the-game Maybe not then

Miller gets the nod.....

seriously hope he proves me wrong on slating him..

I look forward to the miller out thread


Fwiw i hope he proves people wrong too

Well it will either be he should ave started weeks ago if he goes well..or he should'nt have played as our forwards are to light to make any platforms..if hes poor..i hope its the first. & we get a win.

It could go both ways for Miller..

Either our forwards play well and let Miller showcase what where missing, or forwards do nothing and Miller is made the scapegoat.

Without the forwards i feel this could be a long match for us.

So basically Miller can't lose

I really hope he just gives Rankin and Miller a game together

The other scenarios are that are forwards play well but Miller has a mare or our forwards are crap but somehow Miller wins it single-handed. Let's not make excuses for the lad or lay blame either way in this game. He needs 5-10 games to get up to speed and match fitness but he must deliver in that time. I badly hope he hits the ground running early.

He's picked Miller in the squad and not played him before , just think after Radfords comments the other day the inclusion of Yeaman in the squad is a joke

Why have you seen yeamos reaction/ attitude since Sunday? He's a good defender despite some of his attacking actions..& we don't need to be leaking more tries then scoring all season do we?

Has anyone been to training this week to comment on this? I think most of us can only go on what we saw on Sunday and Yeamo had a shocker. Mind you so did most of the others.

I think that substituting Yeaman last week will have sent out a clear message to the player, more so than dropping him from the next match.

Well if he is in the 17 I hope you're right.

Miller starts at 7 vs Salford according to Radders via smales

good news imo, just hope he now gets a good run and not dropped after 1 match, COYH

He's expecting Shaul to return too. So Miller at 7, who will partner him?

horne, but id like to see rankin there myself

Looks like Horne v's Rankin for the stand off spot.

I'd prefer Rankin simply because I want to see those two playing together. But I suspect it will be Horne too with Azza back as interchange hooker.

Cracking news. Hope it's the start of a run of games.