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NRL All Stars: 2nd Round Voting Now Open

Gaffman

Gaffman

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Coach Wayne Bennett has released the final squad and the preferred position of players.

http://www.nrl.com/newsviews/latest...t-releases-player-position-guide/default.aspx

So start picking your team, you can change it as much as you like up until voting closes at the end of January.

Here's the tough part:

His first act is to assign each of the 64 short listed players the position he wants fans to consider them for when lodging their votes from tomorrow. Players must be voted for in one of their designated position/s.

The coach has divided the backs into three groups:
- Fullback – Specialist role
- Outside Back – Includes centres and wings
- Inside Back – A player who can play five-eighth or halfback

Forwards are also divided into three categories
- Tight Forwards – A player who plays front-row and also second-row
- Edge Forwards – A second-rower or lock that can play on both the right and left side edge of a team’s attack and defence.
- Hooker – Specialist role

The coach wants at least three tight forwards in the starting line-up

The Coach’s remaining notes are:
- Players marked as utility players have been designated on the basis of their ability to cover multiple positions.
- The seven man bench will require:

- two Tight Forwards
- one Edge Forward
- one Inside Back
- one Outside Back
- two Utilities

The public now faces the testing task of narrowing down the 64 players to just sixteen, choosing at least one player from every NRL club.

They will join the four internationals, Darren Lockyer, Benji Marshall, Cameron Smith, and Adam Blair who have already been named in the in the first ever twenty man NRL All-Stars squad.
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If you think you have a great team, post it up!

Now do i want Hayne or Moimoi.... hrmmm
 
bartman

bartman

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Hindy or Fui as best in the league at their positions in 2010... there is massive competition for Hayne's position so no point voting for him when our other guys can get over the line.
 
bartman

bartman

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So people have to slot in 16 players, one per team, into this line-up?

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6. Lockyer (Bennett's choice)
7. Marshall (Bennett's choice)
8. Blair (Bennett's choice)
9. Smith (Bennett's choice)
10. (tight forward)
11. (tight forward)
12.
13.

14. (tight forward)
15. (tight forward)
16. (edge forward)
17. (inside back)
18. (outside back)
19. (utility)
20. (utility)
 
1 Eyed TEZZA

1 Eyed TEZZA

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Should be a poll, which Eel are we going to vote for, Hindy, Hayne, Moi Moi or Mateo......unless thats already been done.
 
Gaffman

Gaffman

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Well that NRL site listed Hindy as both Edge Forward and Tight Forward... probably a good case to vote him in as the 3rd run on Tight Forward Bennett wants.
 
Gaffman

Gaffman

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Alright here's my first tinker at a team, criticism welcome :)

1. J Hayne
2. I Folau
3. M Cooper
4. M Jennings
5. J Morris
6. D Lockyer
7. B Marshall
8. A Blair
9. C Smith
10. J Ryles
11. G Ellis
12. D Taylor (my "3rd run on Tight Forward", although he's only listed as an Edge)
13. A Watmough

14. A Kaufusi (Tight)
15. A Tolman (Tight)
16. A Tupou (Edge)
17. T Campese (Inside)
18. M Vatuvei (Outside)
19. K Gidley (Utility)
20. M Rogers (Utility)

Its not as easy as it sounds :crazy:
 
1 Eyed TEZZA

1 Eyed TEZZA

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No it isnt easy at all, its hard trying to get a competitive team, with players that are true club representatives and have mostly a clean skin.

I made this team before I saw Waynes preferences, not changing it.

1. Slater (Melbourne)
2. Folau (Brisbane)
3. Rogers (Gold Coast)
4. Josh Morris (Canterbury)
5. Brett Morris (St George)
6. Lockyer (Brisbane)
7. Marshall (Wests)
8. Blair (Melbourne)
9. Smith (Melbourne)
10. Civinoceva (Penrith)
11. Hindmarsh (Parramatta)
12. Ellis (Wests)
13. Tounge (Canberra)

14. O'Donnell (Cowboys)
15. Tupou (Sharks)
16. Stewart (Manly)
17. Taylor (South Sydney)
18. Mullen (Newcastle)
19. Vatuvai (Warriors)
20. Ryles (Sydney)

I tried to choose players that were true representatives of their clubs, which wasnt easy for some like St George. Then finding a way to have star power and positioning right is rather difficult. Then you dont want to pick players who have been in the headlines for the wrong reason.

Wasnt the easiest thing but I think I have a good balance in the team between club representation (except with the Roosters, Souths and in sort of the Tigers, sorry), star players and positions, plus some options on the bench.
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Snoochies

Snoochies

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Hayne would get my vote, says Bennett
BRAD WALTER

January 6, 2010

WAYNE BENNETT has nominated Jarryd Hayne as the player he would most like to coach in the NRL All Stars team and, in a move that will give him some influence over the make-up of the team, the six-time premiership winning coach will today chat online with the fans who select it.
As voting for the 16 remaining positions in the 20-man squad opened yesterday, Bennett announced the playing roles he wanted fans to consider the 64 players in contention to join Darren Lockyer, Benji Marshall, Cameron Smith and Adam Blair in the historic team.
The St George Illawarra coach will today give a further insight into the type of team he wants when he answers online questions from the public on the NRL website - a move few would have imagined Bennett taking before his involvement in the February 13 match.
Bennett has already indicated he would like Hayne on the wing if Melbourne's Billy Slater is fullback, along with either Warriors star Manu Vatuvei or Brisbane's Israel Folau - leaving the battle for the centres a three-way contest between Josh Morris, Matt Cooper and Michael Jennings.
As only one player from each club can be chosen by the fans, the selection of Hayne or Jennings would preclude their Parramatta and Penrith teammates Nathan Hindmarsh, Fuifui Moimoi, Petero Civoniceva, Frank Pritchard and Luke Lewis.
''The jigsaw comes back to the fact you need two centres and who those centres are going to be,'' Bennett said. ''You're talking about Jennings, Cooper and probably Morris. You're marking [Justin] Hodges and [Greg] Inglis so you don't want someone out there that is not going to get that job done for you because you know that you are up against it already.
''On the wings, you're talking about Folau … Vatuvei is in that mix of people and you're talking Jarryd Hayne because I am pretty sure that Billy Slater will probably be the fullback. So that is the dilemma.''
When asked to name one non-indigenous player from the NRL he would pick to join Lockyer, Marshall, Smith and Blair if he had a choice, Bennett said: ''I'd have to say Jarryd Hayne on what he's done in the past 12 months and the excitement he brings to the game.
''He's a standout but he may not make it, that's the frightening thing about it.''

http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/...d-get-my-vote-says-bennett-20100104-lq4v.html
 
strider

strider

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the voting system is stupid - they should let the public vote to get it to 1 forward and 1 back from each team then let the coach pick a team from those players ... and piss off this aussie/nz captain/vice-captain automatic selection rubbish

:fist:
 
parra-matters

parra-matters

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i picked Moimoi at prop, Slater at fullback.
I hate seeing Hayne on the wing tbh so as most would pick slater at fullback over hayne i picked Fui instead.
 
strider

strider

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i think the thing that will get slater in at fullback is more that there isn't much else from his team for competition - (hoffman, tolman, finch)
 
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Mateo Moi Moi

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This is what I voted for:

1. Slater
2. Vatuvei
3. Jennings
4. Josh Morris
5. Folau
6. Lockyer
7. Marshall
8. Blair
9. Smith
10. Taylor
11. Ellis
12. Watmough
13. Hindmarsh

14. Douglas
15. Creagh
16. O'Donnell
17. Tongue
18. Laffranchi
19. Minichello
20. Gidley
 
The Engineers Room

The Engineers Room

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Hoffman is the only chance against Slater and that is slim.

I think they have done this all wrong.

They should have started with one position and a nominee from each club given a week to vote then moved to the next position (two nominees from each for wing, centre, prop and second row. Allow Wayne Bennett to nominate the order that the positions go in and then when a position is finalised that clubs players aren't eligible for later selection.

So seeing as hooker, half, five eigth and one prop are already selected it could go:

Week 1 - Fullback
Week 2 - Centres
Week 3 - Wingers
Week 4 - Second rowers
Week 5 - Prop
Week 6 - Locks
Week 7 - Bench

If they started this back in December it would been finalised by Australia Day.

That way week 1 you would get Slater, Hayne, Gidley, Stewart etc up against each other.

Then if they pick Slater, the Eels could nominate Eric Grothe and Jarryd Hayne for the wing.
 
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