The Fan's revenge.

[Rich102]

Who do we want to keep out of our squad?
I appreciate there may not be many players available to replace them but let's have an indication of those you want to move on.
Cut and paste this list and add a rating for each player. K for keep. R replace if something better available. B Boot.

Afoa
Allwood.
Ayshford.
Fusitu'a
Gavet
Gubb
Hingano
Hoffman
Johnson
Kata
Lillyman
Lino
Lisone
Lolohea
Luke
Mannering
Matulino
Maumalo
Nicoll-Klakstad
Roache
Sao
Sipley.
Tevaga
Tompson
Tuivasa-Sheck
Vatuvei
Vete
Wright.

Not counted: Henry, Lane, Lauititi, Leuluai,Lousi,John Palavi, Wells.

 

[Rich102]

Allwood. K
Ayshford. K
Fusitu'a K
Gavet K
Gubb R
Hingano K
Hoffman R
Johnson K
Kata K
Lillyman K
Lino K
Lisone R
Lolohea R
Luke K
Mannering K
Matulino K
Nicoll-Klakstad R
Roache R
Sao R
Sipley. K
Tevaga K
Tompson K
Tuivasa-Sheck K
Vatuvei R
Wright. R

 

[ozbash]

Allwood. R
Ayshford. K
Fusitu'a k
Gavet k
Gubb k
Hingano k
Hoffman k
Johnson k
Kata k
Lillyman r
Lino r
Lisone r
Lolohea k
Luke k
Mannering k
Matulino k
Maumalo K
Nicoll-Klakstad k
Roache k
Sao k
Sipley. K
Tevaga k
Tompson k
Tuivasa-Sheck k
Vatuvei r
Vete k
Wright. R

Not counted: Henry, r
Lane, r
Lauititi, r
Leuluai,Lousi, r
John Palavi k
, Wells. K

Added maumalo Vete

 

[Big Marn]

Afoa K
Allwood. R
Ayshford. K
Fusitu'a k
Gavet R
Gubb R
Hingano k
Hoffman R
Johnson k
Kata k
Lillyman R
Lino R
Lisone K
Lolohea R
Luke k
Mannering k
Matulino k
Maumalo R
Nicoll-Klakstad k
Roache R
Sao R
Sipley. K
Tevaga k
Tompson R
Tuivasa-Sheck k
Vatuvei R
Vete K
Wright. R

 

[Blair]

Afoa K
Allwood. K
Ayshford. K
Fusitu'a K
Gavet R
Gubb B - left us a prop short for the pointy end of the campaign, and he's not very good.
Hingano K
Hoffman K
Johnson K
Kata K
Lillyman K
Lino K - keeps our reserves side strong.
Lisone K - we have to give our juniors the best opportunity to progress.
Lolohea K - the poor fella's become a misfit in our backline, but as above.
Luke K
Mannering K
Matulino K - an absolute must keep.
Maumalo R
Nicoll-Klakstad K
Roache K
Sao K - a solid prop whom we bought quite cheap, let's use him!
Sipley KKKK - four keeps! He's gonna be something great, if he let him. Look at that big Canberra beast last night, we need Sipley doing that.
Tevaga K
Thompson K - but lucky to be.
Tuivasa-Sheck K
Vatuvei R - questionable whether the big fella can get back to his best, in 2016 he showed signs of both his old, good self and a noticeable decline, so we'll see.
Vete K
Wright.R

I would've kept Lane and Wells. When you have promising young forwards and outside backs on your books you do something with them, that's our job.

 

[One Warrior]

Allwood. K
Ayshford. K
Fusitu'a K
Gavet K
Gubb R
Hingano K
Hoffman K
Johnson K
Kata K
Lillyman R
Lino R
Lisone K
Lolohea K
Luke K
Mannering K
Matulino K
Nicoll-Klakstad K
Roache R
Sao R
Sipley. K
Tevaga K
Tompson K
Tuivasa-Sheck K
Vatuvei R
Wright. R

Also keep Vete & Afoa, plus release Maumalo

 

[Blair]

I was tempted to boot both Roger and Charnze, simply for having two surnames. We don't want to ever catch that Penrith disease but it does seem to be spreading.

I shudder to think if Manu had two last names, would that double his errors?

 

[MKEB...]

Afo K
Allwood. K
Ayshford. K
Fusitu'a K
Gavet R
Gubb K
Hingano K
Hoffman K
Johnson K
Kata K
Lillyman K
Lino R
Lisone R
Lolohea R
Luke K
Mannering K
Matulino K
Maumalo R
Nicoll-Klakstad K
Roache R
Sao K
Sipley. K
Tevaga K
Tompson R
Tuivasa-Sheck K
Vatuvei R
Vete K
Wright. R

 

[RHYTHM AND STEALTH]

Afo K
Allwood. K
Ayshford. K
Fusitu'a K
Gavet R
Gubb K
Hingano K
Hoffman K
Johnson K
Kata K
Lillyman K
Lino R
Lisone R
Lolohea R
Luke K
Mannering K
Matulino K
Maumalo R
Nicoll-Klakstad K
Roache R
Sao K
Sipley. K
Tevaga K
Tompson R
Tuivasa-Sheck K
Vatuvei R
Vete K
Wright. R

keep gubb and release roache????

 

[spear tackle]

Afoa K
Allwood. R
Ayshford. K
Fusitu'a K
Gavet R
Gubb R
Hingano K
Hoffman K
Johnson K
Kata K
Lillyman K
Lino R
Lisone R
Lolohea K
Luke K
Mannering K
Matulino B
Maumalo B
Nicoll-Klakstad K
Roache K
Sao R
Sipley. K
Tevaga K
Tompson K
Tuivasa-Sheck K
Vatuvei B
Vete K
Wright. R

 

[MKEB...]

keep gubb and release roache????

When you have Sao Gubb and Lisone, one has to go. For me it is Lisone, too error prone and too much of a penalty magnet.

Luke Tevaga Roache and whatever rake is being groomed from u20s? Tevaga in my opinion offered a lot more than Roache in all dummy half aspects.

 

[RHYTHM AND STEALTH]

When you have Sao Gubb and Lisone, one has to go. For me it is Lisone, too error prone and too much of a penalty magnet.

Luke Tevaga Roache and whatever rake is being groomed from u20s? Tevaga in my opinion offered a lot more than Roache in all dummy half aspects.

Agree with Tavenga
But i cant see Kearney keeping Gavet Gubb and Sao

 

[ZEROMISSTACKLES]

Afoa K
Allwood. R
Ayshford. K
Fusitu'a K
Gavet R
Gubb K
Hingano K
Hoffman R
Johnson K
Kata K
Lillyman K/R
Lino B
Lisone K
Lolohea K
Luke K
Mannering K
Matulino K
Maumalo B
Nicoll-Klakstad K
Roache K
Sao R
Sipley. K
Tevaga K
Tompson K
Tuivasa-Sheck K
Vatuvei K
Vete K
Wright. K/R

 

[Rich102]

OK. the results are in.
I scored the categories like this. Keep = 3 pts. Replace = 1 point. Boot = -2 points.
I made a mistake and somehow left Afoa, Maumalo and Vete off the initial list, luckily Ozbash corrected this mistake. Thanks.

The results are shown below:

Afoa 24
Allwood. 16
Ayshford. 24
Fusitu'a 24
Gavet 15
Gubb 11
Hingano 24
Hoffman 18
Johnson 24
Kata 24
Lillyman 17
Lino 9
Lisone 16
Lolohea 18
Luke 24
Mannering 24
Matulino 19
Maumalo 4
Nicoll-Klakstad 19
Roache 16
Sao 14
Sipley. 24
Tevaga 24
Tompson 20
Tuivasa-Sheck 24
Vatuvei 7
Vete 24
Wright. 9

So that's 12 from this year's squad that we all want to keep.
If we consider 16 a pass mark we retain a squad of 21. Leaving Jim with a whole lot of recruiting to do.
I am a bit surprised at Nicoll-Klakstad scoring so well since he didn't make the top team and at Lino scoring so poorly as we surely need halves for the reserves.
.

 

[ZEROMISSTACKLES]

The only suprise for me there is Sipley. I picked him to keep as well (I think) but that was mainly influenced by watching his Trust Cup games and the little time he had with the top side. Im not saying hes a bad player - just that I think its a credit to Sipley that hes only shown us a glimpse of what he can do and its been good enough for all of us to vote him as a keeper. We all seem to see the potential.

Will Kearney select him? Will Kearney select most of OUR twelve remains to be seen but like I said, of those twelve he stands out as probably the least most experienced first grader of ALL those names.