Did you intentially leave out Hilder, Perverse?
he could just about be starting hooker in current form vs de gois.
Hilder will be in the #9 or #14 for mine next year if we get LOD (and it's my personal belief that we
NEED LOD). Hilder, for all of his wonderful workrate, really isn't the tough bastard we need to put some sting into our defence and attack... although i have certainly admired his efforts recently. he has been amongst our best for the past month, and i would not want him to go to another club.
to be honest i'm really starting to become disillusioned with De Gois. injuries or not, he needs to hit some form sooner rather than later. he just isn't functioning correctly at the moment... mainly in attack (although he seems to be making a lot of missed and/or ineffective tackles lately too). seems to be picking poor times to run from dummy half very consistantly. how many times has he caught the markers not square this year? he just hasn't seemed to be the quality that he was providing last year... but perhaps i'm just scrutinizing him far heavier. he was good from the bench yesterday, hopefully he continues to build on that over the next few weeks. i still think Hilder has been even better.
so yeah, i didn't leave Hilder out on purpose per se, and i don't want him to leave the club... i'm just not sure where he fits into the back row. i wouldn't play him in the 11 or 12, and i'd like to think LOD will have a mortgage on the 13. so i see Hilder playing hooker/utility more than anything, rather than back row.
