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Quote The Eagle="The Eagle"Isn't JP OOC at the end of the season too?'" www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyl ... hinos.html 2014.

The addition of Moon and Achurch meaning Ablett can move back into the forwards makes our back row look pretty strong now. Also the fact moon can play 6 means we have halfback cover aswell as Mcshane who can play 7, and obviously Ward. This must be the first season for a while where we've had proper cover at 6 and 7?

Wait, I could have sworn Chisholm was released was he not?

Not released. Dual Registered with Leeds Carnegie.

Frosties, have you left out Kylie from the First Team list?

As it stands i reckon we should line up as..

Hardaker

BjB

Watkins

Moon

Hall

Sinfield

Mcguire

JP

Burrow

Bailey

Delaney

Ablett

Ward



Achurch

Jjb

Mcshane

Kylie/Griffin

We have the depth for rotation and should have enough quality to give Singleton ,Hood and Chisolm et al some gametime.

Seems to bee some good depth this year, certainly on paper quite exciting team for 2013

Looking forward to the upcoming season moon is a good signing can see hall for top try scorer this year

gonna be an interesting season, we're one of the few sides to get markedly stronger this year over last. Warrington have stayed still, Wigan are noticeably weaker while us, Saints, Huddersfield, Wakefield & Hull FC are stronger. Reckon our best choice X7 atm is:



1. Hardaker

2. Jones-Bishop

3. Watkins

4. Moon

5. Hall

13. Sinfield

6. McGuire

8. Leuluai

7. Burrow

10. Peacock

11. Jones-Buchanan

15. Delaney

12. Ablett



14. Achurch

16. Bailey

20. Griffin

25. Ward

A big issue will be how often Leuluai and Peacock can play, for how many minutes and to what level. If they fail to fire our pack could get steamrollered as at times it did last year. If they are in fact rotated, we also need some of our 'lesser light' forwards - Bailey, Griffin, Kirke in particular - to really pick up the slack.



I'm confident Achurch will go well BTW.

to be fair, with the signing of Moon & Achurch the strength of the back row increases considerably. We now have JJB, Ablett, Achurch, Delaney, Clarkson & Ward fighting out for 3 starting spots, which is incredibly good. Up front we still have Peacock, Leuluai, Griffin, Bailey, Kirke & Moore.

The forwards is the key area to are league position, we know what the backs will do given the chance. Again we know what the expected starters in the pack can do but they can't do it every week so it's a question of whether or not the likes of Griffin, Clarkson, Kirke, Moore, Achurch and Singleton can do the job when called upon.



Griffin had some good showings but also some very poor ones last year.

Clarkson played well against Catalans and Wigan in the Playoffs but 2012 was mostly disappointing.

Kirke was rightly getting more game time and the start in France (in place of the suspended Leuluia) ahead of Griffin, hopefully we see more of this but it's far from a guarantee.