Excellent progress and to have the same number picked as the S.L. winners is a tremendous achievement. If there was a 'reserve list' i reckon Briscoe and Cooke may have been thereabouts aswell.

Newts has been outshining Galea for the last 2 months. I am a little surprised we got 4 though.

To be honest Fox would have shone more if his centre learned to pass to him a bit more. However, since his centre has bagged some class tries of his own I'll forgive him.

The Gateshull trolls are non existent on our board today, the fickle fickle individuals

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I'm a big fan of Galea; he had a superb start to the season but has faded badly over the last couple of months in my opinion. I would personally have chosen Steve Menzies in his place.

Fox, Dobson and Newton all deserve their places though. Briscoe would also have been in there at fullback had it not been for a Man of Steel season from Brett Hodgson.

Briscoe is very solid defensively - but Hodgson being dodgy under the high ball?! I think I've seen him miss about 3 all season, and even then recovered afterwards. I'd be surprised if he wasn't the best full back under a bomb in SL. His positional play is second to none.

Dobson of course picked up the Goldthorpe Medal this season - as featured in Rugby League Express , along with a cheque for £2000.

The 3 must have all been on the tv then, can'think it may have been the fc game early on this season where he had a stinker but not seeing him week in week out it was a uninformed observation. I still stand by the fact that I'd trust Briscoe defensively a bit more than hodgeson but hodgeson still fully deserved his spot in the dream team.

Can i refer you to the previous page of this thread?