QLD Team 2017

[Spot On]

Lol.

 

[Spot On]

So when you say "huge factor" are you referring to tv ratings?

You can spin it your way if you like Greasy. I understand you're hurting.

 

[Spot On]

Not for the majority of QLD's dominance - it is widely recognised that a free-flowing fast moving game has been QLD's biggest strength during the 8 straight run. People are already referring to NSW "Out-QLDing" QLD the other night.

Totally agree here. When one team is allowed to stiffle the other teams 'free flowing attack' stemming from continual slow play the ball (due to ruck dominance) that team usually struggles to score points. When the team dominating the ruck scores, they get the ball back and the opposition has to tackle again and again and again.

Tiring stuff.

Welcome to modern rugby league Greasy. Rugby League 101 for Greasy.

QLD had f**k all dominance in the ruck most of game 1.

 

[Frank_Grimes]

Totally agree here. When one team is allowed to stiffle the other teams 'free flowing attack' stemming from continual slow play the ball (due to ruck dominance) that team usually struggles to score points. When the team dominating the ruck scores, they get the ball back and the opposition has to tackle again and again and again.

Tiring stuff.

Welcome to modern rugby league Greasy. Rugby League 101 for Greasy.

QLD had f**k all dominance in the ruck most of game 1.

So you've reversed your opinion. Good to know

It's quite stiffling talking to you...

 

[isaiah]

Quite stiffling?

 

[Spot On]

So you've reversed your opinion. Good to know

It's quite stiffling talking to you...

Oh Greasy, making up new vocab in QLD now???? You blokes just 'stick solid' and it will all be ok.

 

[Frank_Grimes]

Oh Greasy, making up new vocab in QLD now???? You blokes just 'stick solid' and it will all be ok.

Totally agree here. When one team is allowed to stiffle

Why do you do this to yourself?

 

[Stephen 'Stevo' Stevenson]

So, will Hess be selected?

Green trying to keep his value down by saying he's not ready lol.

Tough choice for the seat pissers. Throw him in too early and he may not recover, keep going with the ancient Myles and Lillyman and you get stomped again in game 2.

 

[Hutty1986]

Hess is a certainty. They'll simplify his role and having so much Origin experience around him, he'll be primed and ready to go.

 

[big hit!]

FB: Slater
RW: Gagai (why move one of the best performing players from the role he's been playing?)
RC: Chambers (switched to his club side and combo with Cronk)
LC: Boyd (yeah, iffy for centre but NSW have FB's here too. playing him on the left puts him on Duges side)
LW: Holmes
RH: Cronk
LH: Thurston
AH: Smith
RF: Gillett
LF: Cooper (if thurston plays, he'd be ideal for the NQ left-side combo)
MF: McGuire
PF: Napa
PF: Wallace
IC: Morgan
IC: Papallii (impact stifled at the start if the game flows a bit. it killed him in game 1. rotate him through middle)
IC: Thaiday (last chance you'd assume)
IC: Hess (raw, but who else? Lawrence)

maybe swap Thaiday and Wallace for the start, but there's not much else, IMO.

what you guys think?

 

[RazorRam0n]

^ side I suggested at start of series

 

[myrrh ken]

^ side I suggested at start of series

Dribble on, dribbler.

So....No Thurston now?

On top of no gi no Scott lose Smith and we might as well scratch the series lol

1. Slater
2. Boyd
3. Chambers
4. O'Neill
5. Gagai
6. Morgan
7. Cronk
8. Maguire
9 Smith
10 Wallace
11 thaiday
12 Gillette
13 papalii

Myles Sims Hess lillyman

Looks Smashable

 

[RazorRam0n]

Dribble on, dribbler.

That's what I thought they'd go with at that stage..... Not what I'd go with, Try again

 

[myrrh ken]

That's what I thought they'd go with at that stage..... Not what I'd go with, Try again

Prove me wrong. Where did you "suggest" it?

 

[RazorRam0n]

Prove me wrong. Where did you "suggest" it?

Not going back 10 pages but big hit knows I was the first to suggest Boyd at centres in this thread, and included Wallace slater Hess etc in the side

 

[davi]

FB: Slater
RW: Gagai (why move one of the best performing players from the role he's been playing?)
RC: Chambers (switched to his club side and combo with Cronk)
LC: Boyd (yeah, iffy for centre but NSW have FB's here too. playing him on the left puts him on Duges side)
LW: Holmes
RH: Cronk
LH: Thurston
AH: Smith
RF: Gillett
LF: Cooper (if thurston plays, he'd be ideal for the NQ left-side combo)
MF: McGuire
PF: Napa
PF: Wallace
IC: Morgan
IC: Papallii (impact stifled at the start if the game flows a bit. it killed him in game 1. rotate him through middle)
IC: Thaiday (last chance you'd assume)
IC: Hess (raw, but who else? Lawrence)

maybe swap Thaiday and Wallace for the start, but there's not much else, IMO.

what you guys think?

I agree Valantine Holmes should have been in the orignal team, but Corey Oates played well enough to keep his spot. Oates and Dane Gagai on the wings stood tall when other parts of Queensland's game struggled particularly in the forwards.

It will be either Oates/Boyd on the wings or Oates/Gagai. Holmes won't be selected which is a shame because Holmes can be a game changer. But it can't be denied that Oates played well.

The criticism of Hess is that if he isn't starting on his club team then why has he done enough to play for Queensland. Hess would be good to develop for the future, but Queensland might play it safe selecting veteran Ethan Lowe.

 

[Spot On]

Why do you do this to yourself?

Because it's fun to see you lose your shit Geasy!

 

[Frank_Grimes]

Because it's fun to see you lose your shit Geasy!

Making you look like a fool does not equal losìng ones shit. But whatever gets you through the night.

 

[Spot On]

....and there it is.

Classic Greasy.

.... through the night.

f**k mate. Lift.

C'mon Cranky Franky ... you can do better than that.

You've gone stale.... like the QLD game 1 team.

That's as weak as a Nate Myles hit up. As weak as the QLD defence in game 1.

Lift Greaay!

 

[big hit!]

^ side I suggested at start of series

the really, really shit thing with it though is the interchange. there aren't any recognised props or middle forwards there.

thaiday has been a gun for QLD and the broncos on the right edge, but has been moved into the middle as he has aged with the decline in his agility and speed. he won't take Gillett's spot anyway.

papallii has played well for QLD as a middle forward in the past, but that was coming on after Scott and Parker have softened NSW up a little in the opening stanza and taking advantage of momentum. his impact was seriously stifled in his usual Canberra position on the left edge in game 1 due to the non-stop nature of that first half.

hess is young, only played a handful of games, and that's coming off the bench onto the edge for NQ too.

based on the above, you can see why they went with Myles and Lillyman in Game 1. an old fella as well, but perhaps they'll pick Lawrence to get some experienced and known starch in the middle of the ground. maybe Kaufusi too. Folks will be thinking WTF? with one of those two selections, but that's the reasoning.