Dave K. wrote:Based on Fridays game you could add rankin and Talanoa to that list, but we won't have any players left.
I'd start with Cunningham and have Houghton the bench.
If Talanoa had cleaned up that kick for their try he wouldn't have been far off my motm. I thought he carried the ball really strongly, particularly when we were pinned on our line.
In fact I've just looked at the stats and he made 175 metres off 16 carries. He is also down as making 5 errors, but at least 2 of those must have been jumping for attacking kicks.
There is only so much juggling of the team we can do, but I would consider giving HTW a go at 7. Some might say it's chucking him in at the deep end and he's not ready, but Pryce and Rankin are too similar. At least Harry has a style that should go pretty well with Pryce. I'd also put Rankin back at FB, Shaul is a live wire but our attack is blunted even further by having him linking in.
So my (slightly experimental) team would be.
Rankin
Lineham
Michaels (hopefully Sa is fit)
Talanoa
Lancaster
Pryce
HTW
Paea
Cunningham
Bowden
Minichiello
Westerman
Thompson
Feka
BTW
Turgut
Houghton