Team v Panthers

[Meth]

Bye week this week, so a good chance for us to freshen up ahead of playing the Panthers.

If Capewell is called up for Origin as the mail suggests, turnaround from Perth to Auckland for a Saturday game will be harder (which might be better for us than for them- they'll have 5 backing up, or not).

No word on Berry's hamstring issue yet.

You'd imagine Egan will be back, though Healey's performance will give us confidence.

1- Nicoll-Klokstad
2- Watene-Zelezniak (I honestly thought about both Kosi and Harper here)
3- Pompey
4- Leiataua
5- Tuivasa-Sheck
6- Harris-Tavita
7- Metcalf
8- Fisher-Harris
9- Egan/Healey
10- Niukore
11- Halasima
12- Laban
13- Clark

Res- Ford, Vaimauga, Capewell/Stowers-Smith, Martin

 

[Blair]

Because of what happened to Barnett I'd be in favour of resting Capewell.

 

[Thatwasnthighref]

Because of what happened to Barnett I'd be in favour of resting Capewell.

Yea man for sure, especially if he starts as some outlets are already predicting.

With travel wiping a day off its essentially a 2-day turnaround after a long-haul trip too.

 

[Blair]

2- Watene-Zelezniak (I honestly thought about both Kosi and Harper here).

Simply dire wing options. So Dallin is playing by default. He better improve.

Actually, I've had a re-think whilst writing that sentence. Kosi and Harper might be able to do a job (from the sidelines I don't want to be too harsh) but I wish we had better options.

 

[Blair]

Yea man for sure, especially if he starts as some outlets are already predicting.

With travel wiping a day off its essentially a 2-day turnaround after a long-haul trip too.

When the Warriors start playing Perth again, we better not play Sunday, then again on Friday (and vice versa). I've forgotten what it was like back in '95-'97, but we should always play each other on Thursday/Friday, so we get the full week to recover.

 

[Meth]

Simply dire wing options. So Dallin is playing by default. He better improve.

Actually, I've had a re-think whilst writing that sentence. Kosi and Harper might be able to do a job (from the sidelines I don't want to be too harsh) but I wish we had better options.

They both seemed to play well in NSW Cup.

Then again, it wasn't Dallin's worst game on the weekend.

 

[Meth]

Because of what happened to Barnett I'd be in favour of resting Capewell.

Definitely a link? (I don't know much about ACL injuries and what contributes to them)

 

[Blair]

Definitely a link? (I don't know much about ACL injuries and what contributes to them).

I dunno, but maybe pushing yourself with limited rest between games can open yourself up to injury. But, then again, you can get injured at training (including pre-season training) and you can even get injured at your kid's birthday party (Kidwell).