AViewFromLe2 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:56 pm
With the signings and departures, the squad is starting to come together a bit more. Appreciate the below isn't the full squad, and no doubt i will have left names off from the Development Group. But the below is a fairly realistic guide to who's going to be in the first team mix next season.
Appreciate others will have different ideas on first or second pick etc, but it is a useful guide all the same. Again, appreciate others play other positions, with plenty being versatile players so we have more flexibility than just a straight pick. And players may leave from the below etc.
However with those caveats in mind, the below looks a pretty decent squad for next season and it does have a lot of bases covered. For me, we are just a heavy lock and another winger away from completing our recruitment. Throw in a Joe Batley or Elliott Stooke or another contender, and for example a Joe Cokanasiga and then i think our recruitment would be done.
For me, the biggest thing would be the attack coach. Throw a decent attack coach into what we have, and with that group below and I think we're right up there.
LH - Smith, Whitcombe, Cronin, Van Der Flier
Hooker - Montoya, Clare, Dolly, FTT, Vanes
TH - Cole, Heyes, Hurd, Hoyt
Lock (lineout)- Chessum, Henderson, Chessum Jnr
Lock (enforcer) - Martin, Wells
Blindside - Liebenberg, Rogerson, Carnduff
Openside - Reffell, Cracknell, Illione, Josh Manz
8 - Hatherall, Beets, Koriyadi
9 - JvP, Lenny, Whiteley, Edwards
10 - Pollard, Shillcock, Wilkinson
11 - OHC, Simmons
12 - Kelly, Kata, Phil C, Woodward
13 - Perese, Porter, Cuisick
14 - Watson, Bassett
15 - Steward, Brown, Gourlay