If you could add any five players to your squad, what would your 17 look like?

[Earl]

Melbourne;

1. Greg Inglis
2. Matt Sing
3. Matt King
4. Jake Webster
5. Billy Slater
6. Jonathon Thurston
7. Cooper Cronk
8. Steve Price
9. Cameron Smith
10. Petro Civoniceva
11. Dallas Johnson
12. Michael Crocker
13. Sonny Bill Williams (Injuries aside)

14. Matt Geyer
15. Brett White
16. Garrett Crossman
17. David Kidwell

 

[Johns Magic]

That's true

Which means you would win five games per year overall

Johns will play more FG than Soward this year.

Partly because Johns will play around 20 matches, and partly because Soward will be stuck in PL behind the almighty Brett Finch.

 

[BWNB]

i cant belive no one wants thompson he is in the best form of his career and is one of the form players in the league.
Dragons would take him back in a blink of an eye IMO

 

[eloquentEEL]

1. Anthony Minichiello
2. Pat Richards
3. Ben Smith
4. Timana Tahu
5. Eric Grothe
6. Jonathon Thurston
7. Tim Smith
8. Nathan Cayless
9. Mark Riddell
10.Stuart Fielden
11.Nathan Hindmarsh
12.Glenn Morrison
13.Ben Kennedy

14.PJ Marsh
15.Fui Fui Moi Moi
16.Justin Tsoulos
17.Brett Delaney

 

[Roy]

1.thiaday
2.carney
3.gasnier
4.lyon
5.quinn
6.thurston
7.johns
8.perry
9.bedsy
10.smith
11.hindmarsh
12.simpson
13.newton

14.woolnough
15.lowrie
16.davico
17.SBW

No one could beat that team

 

[lockyno1]

1. Hunt
2. Boyd
3. Hodges
4. tate
5. INGLISS
6. Lockyer
7. TIM SMITH
8. Webcke
9. AARON PAYNE
10. Petro
11. Stagg
12. Parker
13. HARRISON
14. Hanant
15. Macguire
16. Thaiday
17. BOWEN

 

[Special K]

1. Matt Rogers
2. Darren Albert
3. Nigel Vagana
4. Greg Inglis
5. Matt King
6. Adam Dykes
7. Andrew Johns
8. Ben Ross
9. Kevin Kingston
10. Lance Thompson
11. Paul Gallen
12. Phil Bailey
13. Sonny Bill Williams


14. Luke Douglas
15. Reece Williams
16. Hutch Maiava
17. Tevita Latu

 

[lockyno1]

You kept Bailey? WTF he should be the first one to go!

 

[aqua_duck]

1.Thaiday
2.Carney
3.Gidley
4.TAHU
5.GROTHE
6.BARRETT
7.Johns
8.Smith
9.Buderus
10.WEBCKE
11.Simpson
12.Newton
13.Abraham

14.TUPOU
15.Reynoldson
16.Perry
17.Kurt Gidley

 

[Stranger]

i cant belive no one wants thompson he is in the best form of his career and is one of the form players in the league.
Dragons would take him back in a blink of an eye IMO

Your mob always called Thommo a lazy bastard, skilless nuffy and what not, now hes a shark hes god?

 

[BWNB]

Your mob always called Thommo a lazy bastard, skilless nuffy and what not, now hes a shark hes god?

:lol: true but have you seen him play this year , you could say he is in the best form of his life... cant see him leaving the sharks and playing for anyone else...

 

[ParraDude_Jay]

1. Greg Inglis
2. Kris Inu
3. Jamie Lyon
4. Timana Tahu
5. Eric Grothe
6. Benji Marshall
7. Tim Smith
8. Nathan Cayless (c)
9. Mark Riddell
10. Stuart Fielden
11. Nathan Hindmarsh
12. Zeb Taia
13. Glenn Morrison

14. PJ Marsh
15. Feleti Mateo
16. Roy Asotasi
17. Fuifui Moimoi

Soward over Johns? LOL

Is that you Chief? I didn't know you posted here.

 

[Bumble]

1. Greg Inglis
2. Luke MacDougall
3. Mark Gasnier
4. Jamie Lyon
5. Adam MacDougall
6. Johnathan Thurston
7. Jamie Soward
8. Scott Geddes
9. Stuart Webb
10. Peter Cusack
11. Joe Galuvao
12. Luke Stuart
13. John Sutton

14. David Fa'alogo
15. Shane Rigon
16. Beau Champion
17. Jaiman Lowe
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Not a bad side.

 

[Johns Magic]

Is that you Chief? I didn't know you posted here.

Sorry mate, next time I'll be sure to pick a PL half whose stuck behind Brett Finch in front of the best player in the competition.

If you were picking youth, Soward wouldn't be your first picked either.

 

[Bumble]

Sorry mate, next time I'll be sure to pick a PL half whose stuck behind Brett Finch in front of the best player in the competition.

If you were picking youth, Soward wouldn't be your first picked either.

I picked him too.

Purely because Johns is about 40 years old.

 

[Johns Magic]

I picked him too.

Purely because Johns is about 40 years old.

Souths would kill for just one year of success.

Johns would bring a few.

 

[lockyno1]

Sorry mate, next time I'll be sure to pick a PL half whose stuck behind Brett Finch in front of the best player in the competition.

If you were picking youth, Soward wouldn't be your first picked either.

I went for Tim Smith as the "youth player"!

 

[Bumble]

Souths would kill for just one year of success.

Johns would bring a few.

Johns may retire at the end of next year, so that's blowing the chance to get the best young halfback in the game to take a gamble on the worlds best, but also the worlds most injury prone player for one year?

Speaking of dumb ideas...

 

[Risky_6]

1.Ben Hornby
2.Matt King
3.Mark Gasnier
4.Matt Cooper
5.Wes Naqaima
6.Benji Marshall
7.Matthew Head
8.Luke Bailey
9.Robbie Farah
10.Jason Ryles
11.Nathan Hindmarsh
12.Ben Creagh
13.Trent Barrett

14.Sims
15.Poore
16.Young
17.SBW

 

[ParraDude_Jay]

Sorry mate, next time I'll be sure to pick a PL half whose stuck behind Brett Finch in front of the best player in the competition.

If you were picking youth, Soward wouldn't be your first picked either.

Pity you didn't think before you posted.

Johns is 32, injury prone and while he's probably the best there ever was, he's got one year left in him and he's done. Soward is still only 21/22 and has shown form in first grade, a change of scenery may bring the best out in him. Then there's the fact that Johns may not compliment the team. Bumble picked Soward alongside Thurston who likes to control things by himself, and Soward is a very good runner/support player with a great kicking game, they'd compliment eachother well. Johns and Thurston would get in eachothers way most likely, just like Johns and Lockyer did in the test last year.

But there's too much thinking there for you to come up with that. A Knights fan notices someone snubs Johns in any minor way and it's automatically "Where the f**k is Joey? He's the best in the world and the best of all time and much better than Lockyer or Wally Lewis for that matter!" Pretty sad really.