Wolves Good Friday Squad : Wed Apr 16, 2014 1:01 pm  

#Wolves2014 Squad News in association with Lookers Vauxhall Head of coaching and rugby Tony Smith names his 19-man squad for Good Friday's First Utility Super League encounter with local rivals Widnes Vikings. Wolves Squad 10 Roy Asotasi 4 Ryan Atkins 3 Chris Bridge 17 Ben Currie 22 Brad Dwyer 19 Anthony England 25 Ben Evans 18 Rhys Evans 15 Ben Harrison 9 Micky Higham 8 Chris Hill 23 James Laithwaite 5 Joel Monaghan 14 Michael Monaghan 7 Richie Myler 20 Gareth O’Brien 6 Stefan Ratchford 1 Matthew Russell 11 Trent Waterhouse Tickets are still available in WolfWare and Online http://ow.ly/vND6P

#Wolves2014 Squad News in association with Lookers Vauxhall Head of coaching and rugby Tony Smith names his 19-man squad for Good Friday's First Utility Super League encounter with local rivals Widnes Vikings. Wolves Squad 10 Roy Asotasi 4 Ryan Atkins 3 Chris Bridge 17 Ben Currie 22 Brad Dwyer 19 Anthony England 25 Ben Evans 18 Rhys Evans 15 Ben Harrison 9 Micky Higham 8 Chris Hill 23 James Laithwaite 5 Joel Monaghan 14 Michael Monaghan 7 Richie Myler 20 Gareth O’Brien 6 Stefan Ratchford 1 Matthew Russell 11 Trent Waterhouse Tickets are still available in WolfWare and Online http://ow.ly/vND6P

Re: Wolves Good Friday Squad : Wed Apr 16, 2014 1:38 pm  

I would go with.....

Matthew Russell
Rhys Evans
Ryan Atkins
Chris Bridge
Joel Monaghan
Stefan Ratchford
Gareth O’Brien
Roy Asotasi
Micky Higham
Chris Hill
Trent Waterhouse
James Laithwaite
Ben Harrison

Ben Currie
Anthony England
Ben Evans
Brad Dwyer

I would rest Michael Monaghan for Monday.
With Richie Myler missing out

Re: Wolves Good Friday Squad : Wed Apr 16, 2014 1:53 pm  

Matthew Russell
Rhys Evans
Ryan Atkins
Chris Bridge
Joel Monaghan
Stefan Ratchford
Richie Myler
Roy Asotasi
Micky Higham
Chris Hill
Trent Waterhouse
James Laithwaite
Ben Harrison

Ben Currie
Anthony England
Ben Evans
Michael Monaghan

Re: Wolves Good Friday Squad : Wed Apr 16, 2014 2:35 pm  

Interesting to see O' Brien back in, wonder if Ratch/Myler/Bridge/Atkins might get a rest.

Re: Wolves Good Friday Squad : Wed Apr 16, 2014 5:35 pm  

Strongest team available, no resting anyone we need to go on a winning run.if we need to rest players do it against Doncaster.

Re: Wolves Good Friday Squad : Wed Apr 16, 2014 8:09 pm  

We can't afford to rest players even allowing for the short turnaround over the weekend. Besides certain players who are woefully out of form won't get any better sat in the stands.

Anyway, if we rested Myler and GOB had a blinder would Gareth become our first choice half-back or would he be canned off at the first opportunity?

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Re: Wolves Good Friday Squad : Wed Apr 16, 2014 8:38 pm  

TS will only be interested in getting back to winning ways and moving back up the table. The only players likely to be rested during the Easter period will be those that are either injured or too knackered to perform in the next game.

Re: Wolves Good Friday Squad : Wed Apr 16, 2014 9:11 pm  

....but not the ones who caught him wearing womens benders!

Re: Wolves Good Friday Squad : Wed Apr 16, 2014 10:25 pm  

morrisseyisawire wrote:

We can't afford to rest players even allowing for the short turnaround over the weekend. Besides certain players who are woefully out of form won't get any better sat in the stands.

Anyway, if we rested Myler and GOB had a blinder would Gareth become our first choice half-back or would he be canned off at the first opportunity?

I don't know where this idea has come from that TS has his favourites and has it in for G'OB no matter how well he plays.

Myler/Ratchford might not have been pulling up trees this season but these have been part of a team that has won trophies and been at the top of the league so they have got a little bit of leeway. G'OB has been OK but he has only been that, just OK. He goes through games looking decent, so he's an upgrade on other home grown halfbacks we've had before like Hulse and Duffy but for me he's not shown anything that has made me think he is going to be special.

G'OB is 22 now, when you think of Briers at that age (around the time Langer was here),he had a lot of downsides, his defence was flimsy, he got easily distracted chatting to refs, when things were going against us he would make mistakes under pressure especially kicking to touch on the full. But you could always see evidence that there was something special with Briers, he would win matches, at that age he went to the World Cup and had the Aussies backpedalling in the semi-final, he would have some storming games against top sides even back then.

G'OB doesn't have the downsides that a young Briers did but (for me anyway) he does not show anything special yet. I felt the same when he was at Saints, he looked like a player that would be a good understudy halfback in a good side, he can come in and do a job, but not a star.

If he was really pulling up trees and TS was leaving him out then that would look odd but he hasn't done that yet.

Re: Wolves Good Friday Squad : Thu Apr 17, 2014 4:56 am  

Goood points SC