Will be interesting to see who he picks for the back 5 this year. Our contingent of Hall, Briscoe, Hardaker and Watkins have been poor and or injured. Joe Burgess isn't getting games in Aus. Charnley is scoring and making good metres but shouldn't be considered because he's going to RU next year. Jack Reed seems to always be injured come end of the year. Shenton missed all year and Saints' lot of Makinson and Percival suffering with injuries too. Wouldn't pick Bateman at centre regardless of his off field issues.
Only McGillivery has scored tries and made metres in struggling team. If Bennett was going to go down the bringing in 'foreign' players route then the likes of Solomona and Justin Carney will have spent enough time in England wouldn't they?
Edit - forget about Man-Friday, so at the moment I'd go like this with the centres still undecided
1 - Tomkins
2 - McGillivery
3 -
4 -
5 - Manfredi