He doesn't want to play centre. He specifically came here to play hooker. And I'm not convinced that asking Houghton to play the full 80 minutes week in and week out is a good idea. If Houghton is going to be spelled then Berro is the man for that role.

Agar said last week he had pencilled in the catalans home game for horney to be back.

thats a pretty tough game to come back to isnt it?

1 Tansey

2 Whiting

3 Turner

4 Yeaman

5 Hall

6 Washbrook

7 Long



8 Dowes

9 Houghton

10 Radford

11 Tickle

12 Manu

13 Fitzgibbon



14 Berrigan

15 Lauaki

16 Cusack

17 Moa

Cant see why people are looking at having Hall in the team, i would give Tuffour a shot at it. Lets face it defensively he cannot be any worse than Hall is and if the rumours are true about Hall going to Rovers then we really don't need to be risking playing him the team.



Houghton had a cracker at hooker last week but if we go down the route of making him play the full 80 each and every week he will sone burn himself out. So for me Berro to start with houghton replacing him during the game as i think we get more out of him coming off the bench than vice versa.

definately agree about Hall. i think Tuffour is worth a shot. we'll never know how good he is until he's given a game in the 1st team. is he especially quick? even if he's not, he's a dedicated winger which Hall isn't.

I seem to recall the tactic of giving game time to an unproven youngster backfiring spectacularly on you guys the last time we played

The whole team were pants that day TBF.

We were awful, and it would be harsh to single Lyne out.

Fridays game is very important and we cannot afford to be complacent going into the game like we were at the willows earlier on in the season. A win could put us in joint 3rd and would give us great confidence going into the Huddersfield game, on the back of four successive wins. If we don't turn up, Salford will beat us and last fridays game will have counted for very little, therefore its imperative that we get the two points this week and push on towards the last quarter of the season.

It would be but it's true. The team were awful but Broughton had Lyne is his pocket and kept killing him everytime they were one on one. Lyne looked good with the ball in hand and almost broke through a few times but in defence he was left wanting.

attacking wise tuffour has done fantastic for york,but his defence has let him down slightly,which at that level,doesn't read well.but if we don't try him we will never know i suppose,but it looks like hall will be in to me.