Do we keep Sandow?

[souths_pride]

Foran

Not so sure if I can see him playing as a no. 7

 

[Casper The Ghost]

Tepai is slow laterally and is not experienced enough

That will come with experience.
He will be working on that aspect of his game.
Am confident Tepai has what it takes to be a world-class backrower for 10+ years.
Hopefully he stays in League all this time.

 

[Bigfella]

Tepai has been playing hurt since round 2.

We got a bit more oomph out of our pack tonight just for not having two half fit players in our starting pack.

Plus our prop rotation all stood up against some of the comp's best front rowers.

Mind you I think woods and tapou took a bit of sting out of Souths pack last week for us with a very heavy physical effort.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Not so sure if I can see him playing as a no. 7

Sure he can. Stick him on one side of the field with 7 on his back with Norman on the other side in 6. If they don't like those numbers they can swap.

Sandow does all his best work at second receiver anyway.

 

[yy_cheng]

I am not knocking tepai. I just dont think he needs the extra responsibility to look after sandow as well

 

[souths_pride]

Sure he can. Stick him on one side of the field with 7 on his back with Norman on the other side in 6. If they don't like those numbers they can swap.

Sandow does all his best work at second receiver anyway.

Where does Corey Norman fit into things?

 

[Noise]

Where does Corey Norman fit into things?

I'm pretty sure Pou just explained Norman wears 6 and Foran wears 7. Did you even read his post?

 

[Casper The Ghost]

I am not knocking tepai. I just dont think he needs the extra responsibility to look after sandow as well

Then in our present defensive formation who will, or should I say who can?

 

[yy_cheng]

Then in our present defensive formation who will, or should I say who can?

Mau is currently the best candidate. Most attacks goto the right hand defrnse so I dont understand why you would stock your worse defender there.

Maybe switch Sandie with Norman and may beside him

 

[strider]

I'm pretty sure Pou just explained Norman wears 6 and Foran wears 7. Did you even read his post?

I think pou's gonna have to explain the whole #6 & #7 thing again ..... over to you pou

 

[yy_cheng]

And middle half

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

I think pou's gonna have to explain the whole #6 & #7 thing again ..... over to you pou

I too would like to hear more about this. Like, besides playing on different sides of the field, what is the difference between #6 and #7?

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

And middle half

Is there any rule in the NRL against fractions? If not, the middle half should wear #6 1/2 just so we know what his role is.

 

[Craig Johnston]

takarangi has been very solid in defence imo

 

[Binga]

If the rumored 6 man interchange comes in next year as is being reported, then Sandow would turn into one of the top halfs in the comp imo

 

[lingard]

It's going to be a very difficult decision to make. Unless Sandow plays off the bench, I don't know where to fit him in. Norman will play five-eight and Foran will play half. We'll have to buy a fullback (unless Robinson gets a go there and really fires.)
We need to buy a top quality centre and probably a fullback. We'd get enough money selling Sandow and Hopoate to do that with maybe a bit left over. That's what I'd do. Pity to see Chris go - he put in a sublime performance last night.

 

[pink v]

good goalkicker big heart sign him sign folou to the manly vultures will be circling

 

[Avenger]

Again I'm undecided.

 

[strider]

I thought he was at least trying to make things happen today

 

[Chipmunk]

Again, I don't think we can afford, nor should we, consider carrying all four of Foran, Norman, Sandow and Hopoate, unless Sandow and/or Hopoate want to play for Parra for considerably more than they can get elsewhere.