2021 Rd2: Eels v Storm GAME DAY THREAD @ Bankwest Stadium 18/3

[hindy111]

It’s not about game time, it’s about not getting injured. We can’t afford our next centre option being injured.

Yeah Rankin is a possibility.

I wouId probably go Fergo centre, Dunster wing (yeah not the greatest option but Will may need a few games in NSW cup and Rankin is more a spine player)

I don't like to weaken a position and Blake is best on wing.
Dunster actualy has said he would love to play centre.

On SIVO, GREAT GAME. But when he was clear I though is this the slowest winger I have ever seen? It is almost like he can't run. He would have to be the slowest player in our 17.

 

[soc123_au]

Pretty impressive performance last night, I thought you would get pumped by the Storm but pleased to have been wrong. Gutho was great as he often is, but the big surprise for me was Moses, I thought his game management & composure was pretty good.

 

[Happy MEel]

BA always eases kids in off the bench. So if that was to happen, Will Smith would have to drop off and Marata would start, then move to the middle when Penisini comes on.

Except for when he threw a debutante into a qualifying final 3 games ago.

 

[Obscene Assassin]

BA always eases kids in off the bench. So if that was to happen, Will Smith would have to drop off and Marata would start, then move to the middle when Penisini comes on.

He doesn't do that for backs. He usually has them warm up in the 19 for a few weeks before debuting them

 

[Obscene Assassin]

Except for when he threw a debutante into a qualifying final 3 games ago.

They were pretty extraordinary circumstances though. He played Ethan Parry, Maika Sivo, Bevan French, John Folau all for 80 minutes to start off with

 

[Happy MEel]

They were pretty extraordinary circumstances though. He played Ethan Parry, Maika Sivo, Bevan French, John Folau all for 80 minutes to start off with

Yeah I was just using it as an example.

 

[Joshuatheeel]

They were pretty extraordinary circumstances though. He played Ethan Parry, Maika Sivo, Bevan French, John Folau all for 80 minutes to start off with

and the great Bureta .....

 

[Noise]

George Jennings is a terrible footballer. It warms my heart that he now plays for the Storm.

 

[Gronk]

He doesn't do that for backs. He usually has them warm up in the 19 for a few weeks before debuting them

It's true with Dylan Brown. The rest have all been on the wing going way back to John Folau in 2015. Salmon started off the bench too.

I actually had to go way back to Api Pewhairangi in 2013 who started as centre with jumper #18, but that was under Ricky Stuart.

https://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/

https://www.parraeels.com.au/about/official-player-numbers/

Even the Roosters are said to start Joseph Suaalii off the bench a few times.

 

[JokerEel]

Why wasn't it a knock on when Munster went to put the ball on the line and was knocked out by Gutho?

Same as when Paps was running and in the tackle it came out due to the tackle and went backwards?

Every other time it has happened it's a knock on but not for the Storm?

 

[Angry_eel]

Why wasn't it a knock on when Munster went to put the ball on the line and was knocked out by Gutho?

Same as when Paps was running and in the tackle it came out due to the tackle and went backwards?

Every other time it has happened it's a knock on but not for the Storm?

Yea I thought the same. You can't lose the ball and it goes backwards for it to be called "knock back".

 

[JokerEel]

Yea I thought the same. You can't lose the ball and it goes backwards for it to be called "knock back".

Klein seems to be inconsistent with other officials..

 

[Gazzamatta]

why the f**k would you move Nuikore from centre after a game like that against the best team in the NRL ?

Penisini will get his chance when he's ready

I figure Niukore will replace Matto for at least a week so a centre needs to be found.

 

[Soren Lorenson]

I figure Niukore will replace Matto for at least a week so a centre needs to be found.

True. I wonder if the Penisini aims up in defence. How far away is Cartwright?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Not at his peak, but with limitations. The past two weeks he’s proved he can ‘play’.

He already proved he can do that stuff last year, if not earlier. The difference this year is that he's doing it more often. It's not new stuff.

 

[Joshuatheeel]

Anyhow onto next week, bring on the Sharks.

the win won’t mean anything if we don’t beat the Sharks.....

 

[Poupou Escobar]

why the f**k would you move Nuikore from centre after a game like that against the best team in the NRL ?

Like Arthur's said in the presser, Niukore was helped by the weather.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

He would be on the bench and not exactly dropped. Just back in his preferred position.

Like Arthur's said, Niukore would have preferred to play in the forwards. He's wasted at centre.

 

[IFR33K]

He already proved he can do that stuff last year, if not earlier. The difference this year is that he's doing it more often. It's not new stuff.

i find last year, he was a service dummy half. This year he’s changed it a fair bit. Engaging markers and running. You don’t have to agree

 

[Joshuatheeel]

i find last year, he was a service dummy half. This year he’s changed it a fair bit. Engaging markers and running. You don’t have to agree

More experienced and feeling more confident in the NRL. Plus is probably getting stronger / fitter .....

for example there was an interview with him last year, where he said he was feeling flat during the later part of the season. How to manage this to perform each week comes with experience

He only started last year with 35 NRL games. Now heading towards double that amount ......