PopTart:

They have certainly picked up some decent names which puts pressure on us with ours missing but our advantage is hopefully having a settled spine and team.
If Trueman plays, like Trojan says we have our starting spine.


They have players who have not played together before. 
If it ends up being an individual off the cuff game it will benefit them.
A more disciplined game plan will benefit us.

Trojan Horse:

Amone is a top recruit but the others like Salabio, Singleton, Dezaria wouldn’t be ahead of our props. They’re solid but that’s it. 

Lino is fit and if Truman is too then that’s a huge boost as we can go back to the 1st choice spine. 


I disagree about what you say about lack of pace alegend. We do not have a lack of pace or speed. Just with the changes in the spine we can’t effectively get the ball to the edges in space. 


The only player who lacks much pace is Scott but if he moves to centre that’s less of an issue. 


Honestly let’s not start saying Atkin, Salabio, Dezaria are good. Would we have any over our starting team. I wouldn’t. 


I think our issue is now looking like our injuries in the props. I think we need to be playing more expansive though at magic. If Mike can pull an 80 minute though this week that would help somewhat. Hopefully he doesn’t have to. 


If we have Lino and Trueman I will still be fairly confident we should be beating Cas even with a few forwards out. I’d be targeting the edges. 


Cas won’t be easy opposition and they will want to try run through us. If we can find that tough defence from early season and play with a bit more freedom and smarts I see no reason we shouldn’t win by a healthy score. Even with 8 or so out. 



You make some good points ,but think some off our Forwards who are out through injury will be a big loss .If Truman is back ,can not see him been match fit ,how long as he been out 4 ,5 weeks and Think we have got 4 games out of him in the last 11 games against S L teams if you include the two cup matches .. One good thing is he can kick well , and through out a good pass, that could.take pressure of Lino One more good thing is Max should be getting up to speed,  this is his third game back .as  not been the Max we know he is, in the last two games .With Max at full back that will mean we will be leaving out a guy who to me should be in the centre ,as some one said ,he is up there with T J for jumping for ballsl from attacking kicks .Could be a interesting Sunday night