Re: Friendlies : Sat Jan 13, 2018 10:26 pm  

1. Anyone any idea on what kind of team you will be playing against Leigh for the friendly? 2. How many do you think will attend? 3. This is our current squad,but i don't know who will get a run out. viewtopic.php?f=22&t=608958

1. Anyone any idea on what kind of team you will be playing against Leigh for the friendly? 2. How many do you think will attend? 3. This is our current squad,but i don't know who will get a run out. viewtopic.php?f=22&t=608958

Re: Friendlies : Sat Jan 13, 2018 10:46 pm  

Cokey wrote: 1. Anyone any idea on what kind of team you will be playing against Leigh for the friendly? 2. How many do you think will attend? 3. This is our current squad,but i don't know who will get a run out. http://retro.rlfans.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=608958 We have the same pre season fixtures as last season so I'd imagine roughly the same as last Jan (I.e strong in the first half then reserves in the second half). Our only injury is Manfredi I think

Cokey wrote: 1. Anyone any idea on what kind of team you will be playing against Leigh for the friendly? 2. How many do you think will attend? 3. This is our current squad,but i don't know who will get a run out. http://retro.rlfans.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=608958 We have the same pre season fixtures as last season so I'd imagine roughly the same as last Jan (I.e strong in the first half then reserves in the second half). Our only injury is Manfredi I think

Re: Friendlies : Sat Jan 13, 2018 10:55 pm  

Grimmy wrote:

We have the same pre season fixtures as last season so I'd imagine roughly the same as last Jan (I.e strong in the first half then reserves in the second half). Our only injury is Manfredi I think

Cheers pal.

Re: Friendlies : Sun Jan 14, 2018 11:15 pm  

£20 to watch the kids play in London is steep!

Re: Friendlies : Mon Jan 15, 2018 12:44 am  

I don’t miss any regular season games but gave up on preseason games a few years ago.

I’ll take Pre-season games seriously when Wigan do

Re: Friendlies : Mon Jan 15, 2018 1:46 pm  

NSW wrote:

I don’t miss any regular season games but gave up on preseason games a few years ago.

I’ll take Pre-season games seriously when Wigan do

I reckon a tenner for the Swinton game will be a decent way to spend a Sunday afternoon whatever team we put out. The Leigh game we usually lose - so I guess armed with that information you takes your choice. I suppose it depends how much you've missed the rugby since September. For mine, I'll be going especially as I miss two weeks whilst the club are over in Australia (but that's another thread!).

Re: Friendlies : Mon Jan 15, 2018 6:38 pm  

I don't bother with friendlies these days. The Old Locker cup matches used to offer up some spirit in the past, and often a bit of biff.

Re: Friendlies : Tue Jan 16, 2018 7:39 am  

I’d imagine it’ll be the strongest side we’ve put out in the Leigh fixture for a long time. Even if we rest the international players, we’ll still be pretty strong. Something along the lines of-

Escare
Davies Sarginson Gildart Burgess
Tomkins Shorrocks
Sutton Powell Flower
Tomkins Farrell Isa

Subs
Nuuausala Clubb Tautai Hamlin Wells Marshall Ganson Field

Re: Friendlies : Tue Jan 16, 2018 9:39 am  

NickyKiss wrote:

I’d imagine it’ll be the strongest side we’ve put out in the Leigh fixture for a long time. Even if we rest the international players, we’ll still be pretty strong. Something along the lines of-

Escare
Davies Sarginson Gildart Burgess
Tomkins Shorrocks
Sutton Powell Flower
Tomkins Farrell Isa

Subs
Nuuausala Clubb Tautai Hamlin Wells Marshall Ganson Field

I hope so. Pretty strong side that. Our new squad needs to be tested and I'm really looking forward to this one.

Re: Friendlies : Tue Jan 16, 2018 10:29 am  

I'd go:

FB Escare
RW Davies
RC Sarginson
LC Gildart
LW Burgess
SO Williams
SH S.Tomkins
P Nu'uausala
H Powell
P Flower
SR J.Tomkins
SR Farrell
LF Sutton

S Clubb
S Ganson
S Tautai
S Isa
S Shorrocks
S Hamlin
S Marshall
S Forsyth


Missing:
Manfredi - Injured
Leuluai, Bateman, O'Loughlin and Navarette - Played in the world cup
Bretherton, Higginson, Davies, Field and Barnes - More than 1 injury away from the 17. Better off getting a full game v Skolars than 10 mins v Leigh

I've included Williams despite him playing in the world cup because I think it's important for him to get experience playing together with his new HB partner.