Australian Team?

[franklin2323]

Your 3 best forwards are English and your starting hooker is first picked for NZ. Which players in particular do you think should have been picked?

Teo if he wasn't leaving. Yeah 5 is a decent representation would be 7 if Burgess and Teo weren't changing codes

 

[franklin2323]

Only two specialist wingers... interesting.

Especially given none of the centres have played much wing

 

[Captain Apollo]

Klemmer? Please... Doesn't deserve to be anywhere near a test jumper yet.

Part of the problem is how many of the "regular" Australian forwards are unavailable (e.g. Gallen, Myles) and also that many of the better forwards in the comp are not eligible for Australia. Hence ther will be some that are a reach at this stage of their careers and he is one of them.

 

[Son of Minto]

Guys like Lillyman and McGuire should be well ahead of Klemmer though.

 

[Son of Minto]

Greg Bird (Gold Coast Titans/West Maitland Red Dogs/ Maitland Pumpkin Pickers)

Daly Cherry-Evans (Manly Warringah Sea Eagles/Mackay Brothers)

Boyd Cordner Sydney (Roosters/Old Bar Pirates)

Cooper Cronk (Melbourne Storm/Souths Acacia)

Robbie Farah (Wests Tigers/Enfield Federals/Leichhardt Wanderers)

Aidan Guerra (Sydney Roosters/Townsville Brothers)

Jarryd Hayne (Parramatta Eels/East Campbelltown Eagles/Cabramatta)

Ryan Hoffman (Melbourne Storm/Campbelltown Collegians)

Ben Hunt Brisbane (Broncos/Blackwater Crushers)

Greg Inglis South (Sydney Rabbitohs/Bowraville Tigers)

Josh Jackson (Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs/Gulgong Terriers/Mudgee Dragons)

Michael Jennings (Sydney Roosters/St Marys/West City Tigers)

Alex Johnston (South Sydney Rabbitohs/La Perouse Panthers)

David Klemmer (Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs/All Saints)

Josh Mansour (Penrith Panthers/St Johns/Kingsgrove Colts)

Sione Mata'utia(Newcastle Knights/Raymond Terrace/South Newcastle)

Josh Papalii (Canberra Raiders/Logan Brothers)

Corey Parker (Brisbane Broncos/Logan Brothers)

Beau Scott (Newcastle Knights/Picton Magpies)

Cameron Smith (c) (Melbourne Storm/Logan Brothers)

Sam Thaiday (Brisbane Broncos/Townsville Brothers)

Daniel Tupou (Sydney Roosters/Berala Bears/Guildford Owls)

Dylan Walker (South Sydney Rabbitohs/Mascot Jets)

Aaron Woods (Wests Tigers/Leichhardt Juniors)

http://leagueunlimited.com/news/kanagroos-four-nations-squad-announced/

 

[Son of Minto]

Mata'utia has played SEVEN games. Baffling selection.

 

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Ridiculous.

McGuire should easily be there ahead of klemmer but sheens is obsessed with having tall props

 

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Mata'utia has played SEVEN games. Baffling selection.

Might as well give the jumper away in a box of cereal.

 

[JasonE]

Gee, i thought England picked too many back rowers and not enough props, i think the Kangaroos have topped them.

So does this mean Josh McGuire will play for Samoa now ?

 

[franklin2323]

Mata'utia has played SEVEN games. Baffling selection.

Yep. Crazy I don't rate Tupou but atleast his a premiership & Origin winger

 

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7 games should NEVER get you a test jumper, it's disrespectful.

 

[Son of Minto]

Remember when Ricky Stuart dropped JT for Ben Hornby and Australia lost to GB? Mata'utia might be a worse selection than that.

 

[Noname36]

7 games should NEVER get you a test jumper, it's disrespectful.

Inu played for NZ with less I'm pretty sure.

 

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Inu played for NZ with less I'm pretty sure.

I am taking about the Australian jumper, NZ don't have the depth we do.

 

[Mixmasterreece]

Inu played for NZ with less I'm pretty sure.

He was picked straight from Reserve grade, but that was back in 2007.

You're comparing apples and oranges on depth though.

Australia should have enough depth that they shouldnt need to pick a guy whose played all of 7 games, and while he's shown promise he's hardly set the world on fire.

 

[WaznTheGreat]

What an utter disgrace a 7 game plodder is picked to represent Haynestralia

Jarryd Hayne should go back to playing for Fiji for this blatant disrespect

 

[yobbo84]

From that squad:

1. Inglis
2. Johnston
3. Walker
4. Hayne
5. Mansour
6. Cherry-Evans
7. Cronk
8. Woods
9. Smith (c)
10. Thaiday
11. Hoffman
12. Parker
13. Bird

Bench: take your pick.

Alternatively a backline with GI at fullback, a left-side combo of Tupou/Jennings, a right-side combo of Walker/Johnston, Hayne at 5/8 and Cronk at HB wouldn't be bad either.

 

[Noname36]

He was picked straight from Reserve grade, but that was back in 2007.

You're comparing apples and oranges on depth though.

Australia should have enough depth that they shouldnt need to pick a guy whose played all of 7 games, and while he's shown promise he's hardly set the world on fire.

Usually I'd agree but there's injuries galore this year. I doubt he'll even play much (if at all)...and when the blokes that will probably play ahead of him are Mansour and Tupou and there's 9 other debutants suddenly his selection suddenly doesn't seem all that weird. He can play 1-5 too.

 

[typicalfan]

Klemmer and Sione are gun kids and the future. I don't mind them getting a shot. Sione could be anything and this will fast track his development.

 

[Mixmasterreece]

Surely Tim Lafai would of been a better selection?