Actually bud, my first post on the subject was this on the dobbins board:



Now I know enough about the law to know that shooting someone in front of 25,000 witnesses might get me in a spot of bother so even you may agree that It wasn't a serious post.

Maybe you're getting me mixed up with that guy who arranges meetings in pubs and wants the board sacking again





You keep trying though as one day you're bound to get lucky and actually prove something you believe is right

you were thinking about emailing Rule and you wanted the little fluffy bird to just get a warning not a ban. Bless you. As long as you're over it all now we should all be

ready for the start of the new season.

You backtrack quicker than an italian tank

You are wrong, you know it now be a good lad an run along

Way too easy - you even provided my evidence for me



My 17 for Saints:

Tansey
Calderwood
Whiting
Yeaman
Briscoe
Horne
Long
Dowes
Berrigan
O Meley
Tickle
Manu
Fitzgibbon

Radford
Washbrook
Moa
Lauaki

seems about right to me,good pack and the backline doesnt look to shabby either.

Bless, carry on telling yourself that and one day you may actually start to believe it

Only point to debate for me there is whether Washy is the better option on the bench than Houghton. Berro wont play 80 will he?

Difficult call, I will go Houghton.

Usually i'd think Berro could play 80 so would go with Washy but in this instance i think Berro will play 40-50 so think we need to carry the specialist replacement.

cant see him starting to be honest

Well well well , wouldnt have guesses the team in a month of sundays

Washy could be used to spell Berro - didn't he have some game time at 9 in the trials ?

Dont think he will be in the 17 tbh

Washy not been in the 17 would not surprise me, Agar could well end up losing us two top young players in Hall and Washy with the way he has used them. Washbrook should be our starting 13 nevermind struggling to make the bench and Hall should be in the centres with Yeaman. Hall did far more last year than Turner did at Saford.

Agree with all of that.

Hal has so much potential its scary. People say about his defence but every time he has the ball he looks so dangerous. At the end of the day it comes down to do you want your to score tries and create for others or do you want yor to be a strong defender. Sadly RA imo always goes for the defence.

Indeed. A very odd selection considering the 2 warm-up matches. I knew Agar wouldn't have the balls to not play one of his senior props though.

Wonder what time the Agar out thread will get posted

Well if we don't win the forward battle because he doesn't have the strenght of character to drop one of Radford,Dowes or Cusack and would rather weaken our hitting power by dropping Moa because it's easier then I will probably start it straight after the saints game.

Tansey
Briscoe
Whiting
Yeamo
Calderwood

Horne
Long

Dowes
Houghton
Radford

Manu
Tickle
Fitz

Bench:
O'Meley, Yak, Hame and Berro/Turner/Washy.

Not so sure I would have played that team but that's what I think it'll be, I think Dowes and Radford are ahead of Moa after the friendlies however Yak was only ok against Rovers but probably gets the nod due to been our best prop in 2009.

I agree with that. Think its a tough call between Hall & Whiting TBH, think I'd prefer Whiting against Saints at present but once the weather warms up and pitches get harder Hall for me everytime (form permitting of course) as he has pace and great feet, just think a heavy pitch is more suited to Whiting.

If Berro can remain at Hooker this season and not have to fill in at other positions then I think he will be awesome. We have seen his class whilst forced to play in other positions so a chance to concentrate in his preferred role, working alongside our new additions, he will be huge.

As much as I like Danny Houghton, if fit get Berro in the mix from the off !

that tough call wont have to be made if what i heard was right

What, One of them injured ?