Bench

[bones]

Dragon would have to be in the 17 if there was an injury to the backline and they needed a replacement mid-match, surely.

Assuming everyone is at full fitness:

11 Watmough
12 Buhrer
13 Stewart

14 Sene-Lafao
15 Horo
16 Symonds
17 King

18 Lui
19 Hasson
20 Andrews

Injuries will probably decide the bench though, there's not much to choose between a lot of them.

Lui > Horo IMO
And I'd switch Buhrer and Glenn around.

 

[RiverEagle]

I have a feeling Tooves will reward the status-quo and slot Horo back in; even if Tred and Lui might seem to offer more (to our eyes).

Injuries will play a part as usual.

Not a bad dilemna to have though; and I reckon a few of us should be slapped on the wrist for doubting our depth, and doubting Tooves and co.!

 

[TokyoEagle]

Gift to come back in when ready to play. From memory, coming back from injury last year it took him a while to get back to his best in attack, defensively did very well.
After getting some time and experience in the starting team, Buhrer to slot back to the bench and cut some teams apart coming on with fresh legs.
T-Red will probably move back to the bench or 2nds when Horo returns. Tooves seems to prefer Horo left, Gift right, and Watmough up the middle. I think he will also make way for another "Big Bopper" on the bench rather than a rangy back-rower.