Spotty Herbert

Radley may be forced to retire due to concussion issues. I would love to see Farnworth and Iro playing together in the centres, but the latter may not choose England and is currently injured. I think Max King will be in the Australian squad, specially if either Haas (dodgy back) or Tino (sternum) decide not to play post season - or even decide to play for Samoa, as has been rumoured.

A bit surprised by the inclusion of James McDonnell. He isn't big enough to play internationally in the second row. I, too, would have liked to have seen Broadbent included and thought Pryce might have made a 32 man squad as extra full back cover. The two (arguably) players whose form is strongest but haven't been included are Connor and Kallum Watkins.

Winning teams : Dogs, Sea Eagles, Raiders, Broncos, Dragons, Bunnies, Storm, Cowboys Points : 322 Home wins: 5 Poll : No idea. Maybe Broncos

It will be excellent to have you back. Bostock to Karapani sounds like a wise move.

Winning teams : Raiders, Warriors, Dolphins, Storm, Sharks, Roosters, Eels Points : 296 Away wins : 3 Poll : Broncos vs Sharks

Blues to win comfortably. Maroons haven't addressed their core problem of a well beaten pack.

Winners : Sharks, Sea Eagles, Roosters, Cowboys, Dogs Points : 212 Home wins : 2 Poll : Cowboys vs Dolphins, although that might be the closest rather than lowest scoring.

Unfortunately he will be in camp with the Maroons on Tuesday. Also, Campbell scored feebly, so keeping Munster was the correct decision.

That didn't really work, did it? 57 doesn't count as big where Munster is concerned.

Winning teams : Sea Eagles, Storm, Dolphins, Sharks, Titans, Raiders, Tigers, Dogs Points: 366 Aways : 2 Poll : 3 or 4 (although I would have preferred the option of 4 or 5). Hoping this is more like Round 13 than 11 and 12!

Then I would go to Campbell. Thinking of dumping Munster myself - ironically, probably for Metcalf.

Can't you have both? Munster will score less during Origin, so if you don't want both, do it.

I agree that Wigan and KR are well ahead of the rest. Any team that can put three or four consecutive wins together (as Leeds have done recently) is going to climb the table as there are so many teams of a similar standard, most of whom are struggling for consistency. With three teams badly struggling in Cas, Huddersfield and Salford, any team who still have four or five games against them to play are going to flourish. Wigan, KR, Leeds, Hull, Wire, and either Trinity or Leigh will make the play offs. Saints to miss, Wellens to go and Catalans to finish the season as basket cases if they don't get a quality coach soon.

This follows weeks where I got 2 out of 8 and 0 from 5. Just shows how unpredictable the NRL is this year!

I've only got 2 right out of the last 14 games, so God knows these are likely to be very dodgy picks. Winning teams : Dragons, Storm, Cowboys, Sea Eagles, Warriors, Panthers and Raiders Points : 288 Home wins : 4 Poll : Titans vs Storm

Winners : Dogs, Sea Eagles, Panthers, Sharks, Warriors Points : 208 Aways : 2 Poll : Wahs vs Raiders

Excellent game. Roosters middles just didn't make enough dominant tackles. Leniu doesn't have enough effective minutes in him for me.

That was one of the most incredible tries I've seen.

I hope you are wrong, but suspect you may be correct.

Winning teams : Knights, Dogs, Dolphins, Cowboys, Storm, Broncos, Raiders, Tigers Points : 366 Homes : 7 Poll : Phins over Warriors

I have a genuine dilemma. I would love to go and support the Rhinos in Vegas (never been there, but it's on the bucket list) but I cannot countenance spending any money that tacitly supports the US economy whilst Trump is in power. Pleasure or principles? Help, please.

The important part of my post was to emphasise the mistake of dumping Rhys Lovegrove. Whether Luke Gale was bang average or he was the dogs male genitals is irrelevant.

Spot on. They sacked Rhys Lovegrove, who was doing a good job, simply because he wouldn't put his name to a press release that was anti IMG. Since then the owners have made mistake after mistake in employing coaches / director of rugby that weren't up to the job. It's nothing to do with gay rights, or not emphasising the football side of the business enough, its simply poor decision making when it comes down to who manages the team.

This time last year I was averaging 1095 a week and was in the top 8k. This year I am averaging 1260 a week and I am only just in the top 20k. The increase in points and scores required to be successful is remarkable.

He only come into contention with a mid season move, or the removal of Hasler as Titans coach.