Forward Line

[B.M]

This is how I would set them up


Higgins Hill

Membrey

King

Butler

Hayes/Marshall


Phillipou/Owens to play as a seventh
The other in the midfield

Sharman as back up


My Wingers are Wood and Henry/Hill/Wilson
Back up Byrnes

Inside Mids
Steele, Crouch, Owens, Dow, Clark, Ross, Jones - Sinclair


Rucks
Marshall and Hayes (Keeler to play at some stage)

Sub options - stupid fkn concept- but anyway
Jones, Dow, Wilson, Sharman, Ross, Stocker

Backs are settled

Wilkie- Howard - Webster
NWM - Battle - Sinclair

7th defender - Windhager

Back Ups
Stocker, Cordy, Paton

Sandy

Schoenmaker - Cordy - McLennan
Bonner - Van Es - Stocker
Byrnes - Ross - Allison
Garcia - Sharman - Hotton
Collard - Caminiti - Keeler

Heath - Paton - Jones

Int:
Campbell

[skeptic]

Ross outside the top 22 is a hot take

[Banger9798]

Ross outside the top 22 is a hot take

Wow! Major BM demotion

Can only agree though.

Membrey will need to show he still has it with Sharman and Caminiti ready to take his spot

[B.M]

Only just out

Inside mids
Steele
Crouch
Owens/Phillipou
Bench
Clark
Dow
Sub
Jones

Back up
Ross, Byrnes

[skeptic]

And Hill up forward!? Interested to hear more about that.

[B.M]

Hill played HHF most of last season - a bit on the wing

Wood and Byrnes played wing mostly

I would rotate the wings through HF and off the bench
My outside IC player would be Wilson

[D.B.Cooper]

And Hill up forward!? Interested to hear more about that.

That is where he played 80% in 2023, he just plays high and with his running capacity is basically a 3rd winger.

[Zed]

I imagine how and where the ball comes into the forward half will be a particular focus for RL over the next 6 weeks. He did a great job in fine tuning the defence over the last preseason, and I imagine his major focus this preseason will be to improve our scoring output.

[spert]

The forward half seemed too congested in season 2023, with too many all running to the same position, or the smalls not running hard enough to make space or to gather the loose ball. I think tactically, we didn't do a great job in the forward half and I would want to see some improvement in that area this season. King needs to be a bit more mobile and run his direct opponent around more, but I'm sure if he is fit, he will hit the scoreboard enough. It will be interesting to see how Lyon uses the available players in the forward line

[B.M]

Agreed

That’s why I have put Max about 30 out and not in the square

[Saints58]

Am I right in saying that Sandy has to have 12 players and we make up the rest as its a aliment team.
If that is the case and we don't have many injury's wouldn't that really affect our younger guys development as some would have to miss each week.

[B.M]

There is no restrictions- hasn’t been for a decade