Pritchard has to start again for me. He is similar to Willie Manu in that I always felt he struggled to get in to a game when coming off the bench and is very capable of playing the 80 if needed.



I'd leave Carlos where he is. It's his position to lose at the minute and I don't feel he deserves to lose it based on the last month. Pryce has been suspect defensively all year and whilst I'm not laying the blame at his door, it's probably no coincidence that in the 20 minutes he was on the pitch against Cas, they breached our right edge twice to go over in the corner. With him on the bench you're essentially covering stand off and centre rotations which is unnecessary, especially against a huge French pack so he misses out of my 17. Washbrook has the utility value already.



Green has played very well recently and gets the nod over Thompson. His contact in defence can be very iffy which would worry me against Taylor, Bousquet, Casty etc.



Shaul

Talanoa

Yeaman

Fonua

Michaels

Carlos

Sneyd

Taylor

Houghton

Watts

Minichiello

Pritchard

Ellis



Green

Bowden

Manu

Washbrook

Chill, there's a drama going on around here

Hello Hullites,Since one of you has been on our website I thought I would reply as follows; 1 The score was wider than he game ,but you fully deserved to win;2 You ,like us , have embarked on a plan of "winning" rugby,which involves fewer tries-especially for your opponents- fewer unforced errors, less playing with your hearts and more with your brains,and to some less "entertainment". I was sick to death of watching my team losing an exciting tryfest and I do not care that we play a much more cautious -sensible would be a better word-style of rugby.Best wishes for the rest of the season,except when you are playing us.

Watched it back today and changed my mind when being able to relax.thought we controlled game well and it was our backs that won it as much as forwards.the likes of fonua and talanoa just seemed to take some much energy out of them.with yeamo and michaels both having excellent games there was just no breathers for their defence .as the commentary said fonua looks like he's put on wrong shirt

Fonua is really turning into a top signing. Am still eating humble pie about yeaman and enjoying every piece

Having watched it back the most impressive thing for me was that we won so convincingly despite a lot of our main stars not really standing out. Shaul, Houghton, Ellis, Taylor, Watts, Tuimavave. None of them were poor as such, but they were outshone imo by the likes of Green, Bowden and Michaels. It just shows how formidable this squad is right across the board.