Knights V Storm - Team

[Bicey_18]

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First Grade Knights v Storm

Tuesday, 6 May 2008 - Newcastle Knights

KNIGHTS V STORM
Olympic Park
NRL
7.00pm Monday 12 May, 2008
Coach: Brian Smith

1. Kurt Gidley
2. James McManus
3. Wes Naiqama
4. Adam MacDougall
5. Cooper Vuna
6. Chris Bailey
7. Jarrod Mullen
8. Danny Wicks
9. Danny Buderus (C)
10. Ben Cross
11. Chris Houston
12. Cory Paterson
13. Zeb Taia

Interchange:

1. Matt Hilder
2. Jesse Royal
3. Daniel Tolar
4. Steve Simpson
5. Keith Lulia
6. Cameron Ciraldo
7. Scott Dureau

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[Kazaf]

Scott Dureau is fit to play?

 

[Yosh]

Waow it will be interesting to see what BSmith will do with Mullen/Dureau/Bailey this week... Simpson back is good, Doogs should go retire/die and Ciralod wasnt too bad last week either. Would like to watch Aku, hopefully next week or the week after

 

[perverse]

geez that backrow looks classy with simpson slotting back into the team for ciraldo. very surprised that wicks has been named to start too, royal really deserves to be there instead imo.

7 man bench though. there's no way the team that is named there will take the field as is. lulia also unlucky to be punted for doogs. i'd hate to be craig bellamy trying to make a gameplan to combat our team - where do you start? there are so many combinations of different players and different positions they can play in on that sheet that you could do your head in trying to figure out what smith is going to come out with come next monday.

 

[TooheysNew]

Doogs should go retire/die

Weak.

 

[macavity]

Lulia and Scotty should feel hard done by if they don't play, Jesse should feel hard done by for being named on the bench.

once again Smithy comes up with some weird selections.

 

[voltron]

NRL squad for Monday's game:
Melbourne Storm
Starting team:
1. Billy Slater
2. Steve Turner
3. Will Chambers
4. Israel Folau
5. Anthony Quinn
6. Greg Inglis
7. Cooper Cronk
8. Antonio Kaufusi
9. Cam Smith (c)
10. Brett White
11. Michael Crocker
12. Ryan Hoffman
13. Dallas Johnson

Interchange:
14. Matt Geyer, 15. Adam Blair, 16. Jeremy Smith, 17. Sam Tagataese, 18. Aiden Tolman (one to be omitted)

Coach: Craig Bellamy.
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wow
a pretty good team there

 

[Spike]

Not confident on MacDougall and Vuna defending the same side of the field. I would be aiming a lot of attack down that side if I was Bellamy

 

[Pika]

Scott Dureau is fit to play?

He will do contact Thursday.

Interesting to see how he goes.

Cross and Royal were working wel together, shame Jess has been benched.

 

[Spike]

Speculating, but it might be more strategic than anything. Royal has more offloads than any other Knights forward this year. Throw him on against a few players backing up from the test towards the end of each half and he may be able to create a few more second phase plays than usual.

 

[perverse]

hopefully geyer plays... he's been pretty useless for years.

spike is right about mad dog and vuna on the same wing though. we could bleed a lot of points down that side of the field.

 

[BG]

Speculating, but it might be more strategic than anything.

Almost certainly.

 

[BG]

bellamy trying to make a gameplan to combat our team - where do you start?

I reckon Smith will milk uncertainty over our halves pairing as often as he can. Completely different things to work on for a coach to combat Dureau's kicking game or Bailey's running/money-ball game. They'll have to do twice the preparation and one aspect will be irrelevent. Nice.

 

[Frederick]

Cross and Royal were working wel together, shame Jess has been benched.

Cross started on the bench last game, and our defence still remained watertight until the 60th minute.

Granted a lot of that was due to Hilder

 

[Pika]

Jess did a lot of work in that time to help out Wicksy though.

I am sure there is a plan in place though.

Battering rams and yard makers for 15 minutes, then tighten it all up with no frills off the bench perhaps.

 

[otori]

Man that Storm side is good. More than half of them are bloody Aus/NZ reps as well. Slater, Folau, Inglis, Cronk, Crocker, Hoffman, Johnson, Smith, Smith, Blair.

 

[chinorocks]

Hopefully at least a 3rd of them fail to back up.

 

[Gene Krupa]

If Bailey has to be in the team, what's wrong with him slotting into Maddogs centre spot and playing Mullen/Dureau in the halves?

That would have to be near to the strongest back row, perhaps even pack, that we've put on a park in many a year!

 

[MSKnight]

Lulia > MacDougall

 

[Bicey_18]

And we had to get Cummins as ref....