Official NSW side

[hybrid_tiger]

at least there are no softcock tigers!

Better for us after the toweling this team will get.

Face it, Fulton picks a spastic Manly player every year.

 

[lockyno1]

Best team for a while IMO, can't always be 100% happy with team. People should stop having a cry and get behind the team

Apart from stupidly picking King over Tolman, I would agree. Hooker is an "origin type', backrow is good, and the fullback is the most in form.

 

[Raider_69]

hayne would be a complete waste on the bench

backline or nothing, i would have copped him at wing, fullback or centre, thats how id have it in that order, i do think he had to be there somewhere... his ommission is pretty ordinary. I dont think he should be playing fullback as i truely believe dugan is better but you had to have him in the side

 

[chrisD]

Apart from stupidly picking King over Tolman, I would agree. Hooker is an "origin type', backrow is good, and the fullback is the most in form.

lol, please back up that statement that Dugan is more in form than Hayne.

 

[Vic Mackey]

how the hell are we going to score points?

not one of dugan, soward, pearce or ennis are play makers

we must be planning on scoring every try off a kick

 

[user_nat]

Lillyman > NSW entire bench

Please. Every player on that NSW bench is a better player than Lillyman.

 

[lockyno1]

Don't worry Blues fans, wait till Qld selectors announce Lillyman on the bench for Qld.

If we do, dear god. Surely we won't, surely!

 

[besthalfbackPEARCE]

Fixed... My mistake...

Still, keating has offered far more this year than pearce.

(as for sandow, surely we can borrow him - not like qld doesn't play nswelshmen...)

Keating is a 5/8, but surely Pearce isn't the worst selection on this team. The forward pack is horrendous

 

[RABK]

That backrow will bring the pain.

Gasnier/Uate combo could be electric.

Soward will kick us into good position all night.

Dugan has the potential to enter origin folklore if he plays to the best of his ability.

Positives!

 

[Tweed Titan]

I wonder would QLD would drop Thurston, Lockyer, Slater, Inglis or Cam Smith if their NRL form was ordinary? :lol:

 

[gregstar]

have you bothered to watch the rest of Dugan's career?

yep.

& unlike soward, his defence hasn't improved as evidenced yesterday.

joke of a selection.

paul carige should be recalled from retirement.

 

[evil_p091280]

Please. Every player on that NSW bench is a better player than Lillyman.

BesthalfbackPEARCE still very bitter about last years gfinal based on all of his comments saying the dragons players are all terrible.

 

[Gaba]

Keating is a 5/8, but surely Pearce isn't the worst selection on this team. The forward pack is horrendous

pearce is the worst selection ever by an nsw coach and selectors

he goes missing and nsw wont score many points because of his predictable and runs away when the teams needs him

 

[lockyno1]

Keating is a 5/8, but surely Pearce isn't the worst selection on this team. The forward pack is horrendous

Pearce is the best of a god awful bunch of halfback, he still is horrible. That said, blame Carney for giving NSW the wrong set of halves. My view is I would have punted on Carney at 7, with Soward at 5/8.

 

[Spot On]

No Stuart said Dugan plays the type of fullback role for him to coach...

Stuart is a really good fullback so is Hayne both play differently Hayne this year has been alot better then last couple he has been in postion alot more then last few seasons..

Dugan deserves a shot though but not having Hayne on the wing is just silly or even on the bench...

......and that Stuart believes that, long term, Hayne's game is suited to that of a 5/8 not fullback. That's my point. Stuart obviously believes Gus Gould's theory that Jarrad has been a liability on the wing at origin level in the past being shown up as poor defensively therefore no start there for him either.

 

[Gaba]

BesthalfbackPEARCE still very bitter about last years gfinal based on all of his comments saying the dragons players are all terrible.

he is bitter the roosters let soward go, for the worst halfback in nsw and the roosters are paying big money for him

 

[joel caine number 1 fan]

Galloway and heighnington miss out again, not surprised about farah he has been awful so far

mckinnon has outplayed duggan twice so far this year too

 

[Big Pete]

Exactly RABK.

This is probably NSW best side in 4 years.

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

I wonder would QLD would drop Thurston, Lockyer, Slater, Inglis or Cam Smith if their NRL form was ordinary? :lol:

Did NSW ever drop Brad Fittler, Andrew Johns, Ricky Stuart or Laurie Daley for bad form? It's easy to keep the faith with superstars.

 

[lockyno1]

Heighnington is not better than the other backrowers, don't kid yourself. If anyone should be cranky Tolman is the one, not Galloway!