if you want to shut down inglis, and this is way out of left field i guess... but you should just beg maddog to come back for 1 last hurrah. shuts him down practically every time. i can't remember the last time inglis had a happy day (individually) against macdougall. id love to see the old boy get one last hurrah in the rep arena, and i don't think he'd let anyone down, either. he's been playing great, consistent footy for newcastle for years now, and would you believe he's already thinking about going around again next year? lol.
of course, it wont happen. after 5 rounds my backline would probably look something like this -
1. Kurt Gidley / Todd Carney
2. Brett Morris
3. Josh Morris
4. Chris Lawrence
5. Jarryd Hayne
6. Todd Carney / Kurt Gidley
7. Mitchell Pearce
hayne isn't playing well enough at the moment to be fullback. might not be a popular opinion, but it's the truth. he's looked very poor positionally all year, and he hasn't found the same attacking mojo that he displayed last year. he came to life on the wing in origin last year, he can probably do it again this year.
no form from Gidley this year aside from a short stint for the all stars (in which he actually looked pretty good). i think if form doesn't change much over the next few weeks and gidley does reasonably well for the knights upon his return we will either see gids at 5/8th or at fullback, with todd carney taking the other position. i would actually find this a little amusing considering they are both Brian Smith success stories, and both halves turned into fullbacks at that.
