It is suppose to be about picking the best side, fairness and rewarding players for playing well. There is no way 6 players from the Broncos (plus Eastwood will make the Kiwi team) are playing well, the way they are catching it looks more like AFL. There are no good 5/8ths at the moment so Lockyer scrapes in, Civoniceva coming into this week was the NRL leader in metres gained, thoroughly deserves his spot and Hodges is just about the form player of the competition. The rest should piss off, the last two weeks the Broncs have looked better with Lacey on the field than Berro.
Manly are undefeated leading the comp without Matt Orford, Jamie Lyon is doing something right. Anthony Tupuo, what the hell, definitely a love affair selection. Matt King, why pick him out of position when you can pick a faster, more exciting player there, i.e Billy Slater, Matt Bowen (he should be 1 though) Brett Stewart, Timanu Tahu. Faster, more exciting, more use to wing play, better under the high ball, all of them are than King. Apart from Tupuo the pack is pretty fair but there are a lot of guys going around in form at the moment so would have been hard to leave anyone out ie. Luke O'Donnell pre-injury, the Ogre, even Watmough is creating buzz for Origin selection. But the backs flat out suck, stop picking incumbents out of form, I named a host of former Aus and current Origin players that would do a fantastic job for the Green and Gold without going mad and picking a true rookie like Folau or Merritt.
Get with the times, this team is playing the Anzac Test of 2007 not 2006.
