It looks like we’ve finished recruitment unless we can bring in another half. What’s people’s opinions for the team?

1. Quinlan
2. Ryan
3. Crooks
4. Minikin
5. Kenny-Dowall
6. Abdull
7. Keyes
8. Mulhern
9. Litten
10. Murray
11. Livett
12. Linnett
13. Lawler

14. Garbutt
15. Masoe
16. Hauraki
17. Hadley

Trout, parcell, gee, Maher, Rawsthorne, Minchella and Lewis in reserve.

Elliot Minchella is probably better suited at LF than Lawler.

Linnett will play centre, and quite simply because he’s outstanding there.

Rawsthorne in front of Ryan for me. Far stronger ball carrier and defender.

Rawsthorne will be in the team.
He will also be your first choice goal kicker

A place in the squad has to be found for matty storton,quality,linnett in the centres,crooks on the wing.

That squad looks absolutely dreadful.

Similar to yours if Hastings is a no show

Lol. Surely you’re no way near spending the cap?

We’re not. Chairman has acknowledged it. Weren’t able to. Good players are reluctant to join the clubs that are most in need of them. For reasons that defy my understanding ‘we’ decided to try to build patiently from the bottom up a few years ago and it set us back massively. Now we have no choice but to keep trying the same thing, over again in the hope that one batch of gambles will pay off sufficiently well to break the cycle.

If it does, I’ll likely get to listen to the pundits saying how it was the right thing to do all along. It is difficult to convey how that will make me feel.