REP PLAYERS NAMED FOR EELS V PANTHERS
Tuesday 29 April 2008
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Pirtek Parramatta Eels head coach Michael Hagan has named all five of the Eels City v Country representatives in his team to play Penrith on Saturday night at CUA Stadium.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Country’s Brett Finch and Nathan Hindmarsh along with City representatives Jarryd Hayne, Feleti Mateo and Chad Robinson have all been named in a 19 man squad which also features hooker Mark Riddell, who missed the Eels round six loss to Manly with a sterno-clavicular injury.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The return of Riddell has been tempered by injury to interchange forward Josh Cordoba, who is expected to miss around six weeks after sustaining an AC joint injury in training.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Hagan says he’s hopeful all five representative players will back up after the City-Country clash.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]“Ideally you’d like to get through unscathed, however it’s a big ask,” Hagan said.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]“We’ve named a six man bench in an attempt to cover all options as we recognise that this is a vital match.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]“Both teams are coming off the bye so both will be relatively fresh, which will help compensate for the fact we’ll have some tired legs out there as a result of City-Country.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]“Penrith have been in fairly good form, they won away last start, so they’ll be tough and we know that.”[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Saturday’s match is also a milestone in the career of fullback Luke Burt, who is just one point shy of his 1000 First Grade points in a career that spans some 155 games stretching back to his debut in round one of 1999.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Burt has scored 45 points from six matches in 2008, bagging two tries, 18 goals and a field goal to take his career tally onto 999 (from 76 tries, 347 goals, and one field goal).[/FONT]
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