oh my goshies, i forgot about vella !! our pack next year is monster ! vella just needs to improve his d and increase his workrate and he'll be worth the 250k/year we're paying him.
i agree cayless has been awesome at secondrow when fit, the only reason i put him in as prop is coz he's one of our only forwards who can consistently break the line instead of going backwards - and with hindy being an 80 min player, i wanted to put wagon in somewhere.
but if i was smithy, this is what i'd go for !
8. cannings
9. riddell
10. vella
11. hindy
12. cayless
13. morrison
bench: widders/afamasaga/morris/stringer
actually come to think of it that'll never happen. smithy would at least put another prop on the bench seeing as he likes to interchange 2 at one time. furthermore there ain't no wagon in that line up, and i dont see him putting wagon as a centre. he loves wagon too much to cut him.
it might actually be better to put cayless back as prop. then u could do a cannings/cayless combo opening up and stringer/vella replacing them after 20.
otherwise we'd have too much talent at 2nd row and lock with: widders/afamasaga/riddell/wagon/morrison all being able to play in only 2 positions. (im assuming hindmarsh will play 80 mins per game, he's too good not to !)
