Team v Bulldogs

[Meth]

Big game really. Win this one and there's a good chance we're sniffing around the 8.

Friday night game means it'll be tough for the Bulldogs' Origin players to back up- so could be without Jackson, Klemmer and Morris.

Here's hoping Foran is fit-

1- RTS
2- Fusitua
3- Ayshford
4- Kata
5- Maumalo
6- Foran
7- Johnson
8- Gavet
9- Luke
10- Matulino
11- Afoa
12- Hoffman
13- Mannering

Res- Lisone, Lillyman, Vete, Hingano

 

[dogz08]

i'd say only brett morris won't back up

 

[Cold Roses]

11- Afoa

Stop doing this to yourself. It ain't gonna happen

 

[Meth]

Stop doing this to yourself. It ain't gonna happen

Haha. Yeah.

 

[JJ]

Yeah, these threads are getting kind of pointless - Kearney's used a permanent marker with Thompson - he could have a season ending injury and he'll still be named to start - such is the respect he's held in

 

[legs 11]

Big game really. Win this one and there's a good chance we're sniffing around the 8.

Friday night game means it'll be tough for the Bulldogs' Origin players to back up- so could be without Jackson, Klemmer and Morris.

Here's hoping Foran is fit-

1- RTS
2- Fusitua
3- Ayshford
4- Kata
5- Maumalo
6- Foran
7- Johnson
8- Gavet
9- Luke
10- Matulino
11- Afoa
12- Hoffman
13- Mannering

Res- Lisone, Lillyman, Vete, Hingano

be around the 8...shit we've been around the 8 for years and usually come in 9 or 10 with a 50% win ratio..
with the team we thought we were gonna have and all the preseason talk we should be top 4....all the time...but nah....
hey why don't we blame sj...he always seems to cop the blame.....probably cause he's part asian...blame it on the bloody asians eh

 

[RHYTHM AND STEALTH]

Big game really. Win this one and there's a good chance we're sniffing around the 8.

Friday night game means it'll be tough for the Bulldogs' Origin players to back up- so could be without Jackson, Klemmer and Morris.

Here's hoping Foran is fit-

1- RTS
2- Fusitua
3- Ayshford
4- Kata
5- Maumalo
6- Foran
7- Johnson
8- Gavet
9- Luke
10- Matulino
11- Afoa
12- Hoffman
13- Mannering

Res- Lisone, Lillyman, Vete, Hingano

good team but gavet possibly racing the clock. phantom chief do u have an update

 

[vvvrulz]

Yeah, these threads are getting kind of pointless - Kearney's used a permanent marker with Thompson - he could have a season ending injury and he'll still be named to start - such is the respect he's held in

The worst thing is Thompson *should* be a permanent member of the team if he pulls his head in and stop playing like a pea heart. He's actually a pretty good player when he's going.

But yes, speaks a lot about our selection policies when he gets to perform the way he is and still always make the cut.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Lay off the p pipe champ

 

[Blair]

Lay off the p pipe champ

Nah, I'm with vvvrulz, the first half of 2015 Thommo was nigh on our best player.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Nah, I'm with vvvrulz, the first half of 2015 Thommo was nigh on our best player.

Haha sorry guys that was aimed at Legs11's incoherent spray a few posts before, I should've quoted

 

[Blair]

Another week and the same feeling that this is the most important game of the season thus far.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Another week and the same feeling that this is the most important game of the season thus far.

It's gonna be that sort of season, at least until we string a 3 or 4 game streak together be it wins or losses.

 

[Meth]

Yeah, these threads are getting kind of pointless - Kearney's used a permanent marker with Thompson - he could have a season ending injury and he'll still be named to start - such is the respect he's held in

Yeah, I get that...and there's a point where you just kinda give up and accept that someone is a permanent fixture. But it takes a fair bit of denial of self-respect to write '11-Thompson'

 

[Penrose Warrior]

I used to be a reasonably big Bodene fan, he offered quite a bit for us in 2015 and 2016 and was very good in the year he left the Tigers.

What the f**k has happened to make him the dunce he's been this year, I'd love to know.

 

[ozbash]

What the f**k has happened to make him the dunce he's been this year, I'd love to know.

The brocess.....

 

[Scott]

Hard to see Foran playing this game after the hammy twinge..

I'd probably rather see Ata at 6

 

[Cold Roses]

Kata gone. CNK on the wing

 

[Cold Roses]

http://www.warriors.kiwi/news/2017/06/20/_team_changes_for_bu.html

VODAFONE WARRIORS v CANTERBURY-BANKSTOWN BULLDOGS

Mount Smart Stadium, Auckland

8.00pm, Friday, June 23


VODAFONE WARRIORS

1 ROGER TUIVASA-SHECK (c)

2 CHARNZE NICOLL-KLOKSTAD

3 BLAKE AYSHFORD

4 DAVID FUSITU’A

5 KEN MAUMALO

6 KIERAN FORAN

7 SHAUN JOHNSON

8 JACOB LILLYMAN

9 ISSAC LUKE

10 BEN MATULINO

11 BODENE THOMPSON

12 RYAN HOFFMAN

13 SIMON MANNERING

Interchange:

14 NATHANIEL ROACHE

15 SAM LISONE

16 ALBERT VETE

17 BUNTY AFOA

18 JAMES GAVET

20 MANU VATUVEI

21 LIGI SAO

22 MAFOA’AEATA HINGANO

HEAD COACH | STEPHEN KEARNEY

 

[Cold Roses]

Vodafone Warriors head coach Stephen Kearney has made two personnel changes and a positional swap for Friday night’s 16th-round NRL clash against Canterbury-Bankstown at Mount Smart Stadium (8.00pm kick-off; match day sponsor: Suzuki).

Solomone Kata is unavailable after being given bereavement leave to fly home to Tonga following the sudden death of his older brother yesterday.

David Fusitu’a moves in from the wing to replace Kata in the centres while 2017 NRL rookie Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad has been called up for his fifth first-grade appearance.

The other change is on the bench with hooker Nathaniel Roache returning. Sam Lisone, Albert Vete and Bunty Afoa are again listed in jerseys 15-17 with James Gavet, Manu Vatuvei, Ligi Sao and Ata Hingano rounding out the extended bench.

“Our hearts go out to Sol and his family at this time,” said Kearney.

“We’re all thinking of him and send our deepest sympathies to the family.”

Kata appeared in the last two matches against Parramatta and Gold Coast after being sidelined with an injury. His return saw Nicoll-Klokstad drop back to the club’s Intrust Super Premiership side after his first four NRL outings against the Sydney Roosters, Penrith, St George-Illawarra and Brisbane.

This week’s encounter – the Vodafone Warriors’ fifth Friday night game this season – follows a bye round for both the home side and the Bulldogs. They’re also both coming off wins, the Vodafone Warriors accounting for Gold Coast 34-12 on June 10 and the Bulldogs stopping St George Illawarra 16-2 on June 12.

Second rower Ryan Hoffman will have his first outing back home after his unforgettable 300th career appearance in Robina when he scored the Vodafone Warriors’ opening try and completed their scoring with a sweetly-struck conversion of Hingano’s late try.

The two teams both have 6-8 win-loss records with the Vodafone Warriors sitting 11th on the table on points for and against and Canterbury-Bankstown 12th. They’re two points outside the top eight.

After St George Illawarra and Manly, the Bulldogs rank as the Vodafone Warriors’ third toughest opponents since entering the competition in 1995. The win-loss ledger reads 20-13 in Canterbury-Bankstown’s favour while there have been two draws.