Thanks ... I wasnt sure if tuha had had a run in newcastle (thats where he came to us from hey)
That's actually a decent point. That's going to be a fair whack of NRL experience and hopefuls playing 3rd tier. King & Nelson replace IDG & Kaysa and Penis Torpedo for Mannah after suspension. So if everyone was uninjured/unsuspended how do you fit Fogarty/Dargan/Robson into 2 spots and then Burrito/Gennings/Niukore/Tuha/Smith/Folau/Schulte/Auvaa into 5? Plus there is still Hasson, Gammidge, Gafa, Woods, Aukafolau plus U20s you might want to play up1. Jamal Fogerty
2. Bureta Faraimo
3. George Jennings
4. Marata Niukora
5. Honeti Tuha
6. Troy Dargan
7. Jeff Robson
8. Tim Mannah
9. Isaac De Gois
10. Daniel Alvaro
11. Kelepi Tanginoa
12. Joseph Ualesi
13. David Gower
14. Kaysa Pritchard
15. Alex Twal
16. Jack Morris
17. Rory O'Brien
18. James Gammidge
19. Atini Gafa
20. Matt Woods
21. Dane Aukafolau
There your 3 guys who play first grade more then likely and will come out of this team.. But missing if all players fit and will feature in Wenty's top 17.
Will Smith,Folau,Schulte.Auavau,Hasson,King,Nelson,Terepo
A crowd of 2207 does not bode well for NT sponsorship to be renewed.
A crowd of 2207 does not bode well for NT sponsorship to be renewed.
There's only 25k people in the Alice and we sent a bunch of NSW cup players. That's a solid crowd.
There's only 25k people in the Alice and we sent a bunch of NSW cup players. That's a solid crowd.
It'd be interesting to see a breakdown of locals to visitors who attended.
If the aim is tourism and the 2000 people in attendance were locals they might just move it to Darwin, especially if the Darwin game attracts a reasonable crowd.
They may also accept that with the heat the way it was in the weeks preceding, that the crowd was never going to be that great anyway.
I think the aim of the sponsorship is tourism, not the aim of the game in the Alice (or in Darwin for that matter).
Part of the sponsorship deal however is that the club give something back by way of promoting rugby league and they do that by school visits, clinics, etc. in both Alice Springs and Darwin in the week preceding each game.