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Shaque spends all of his time trying to attain some degree of fitness which he finds very difficult---he's too big & cumbersome---if he's the best we can offer we have troubles !! He's surviving on the fact he's a "MITCHELL"--that's not good enough !!
So by the sounds of it Keaon will line up at edge and Duncan will be our starting lock until Murray's fit. I assume Keaon will line up outside Dodd. Left edge position is a big question mark. We need someone who is a good defender but they'll mostly just be running block plays down that side anyway with Cody, Jack and Munro. I assume that's why we signed Aitken because he's just a workhorse and not really a fancy player.
from the sounds of reviews and training snaps. our line up looks as per below for starting 13.
Reports are Hubner has been training really well and I'd expect him to be in the 17 ahead of Schuster or Host at this stage. He's a real worker and someone that Wayne would love coming off the bench.
So currently this is our injury/rehab ward. Lets hope this is cut in half at least by round 1:
I'd say Schuster is behind Cody on the fitness reports and needs far more conditioning work to be selected. He's more likely to need some game time in reggies once he is fully fit again and will need to prove himself from scratch again. He can't rely on form from several years ago after falling off the perch last year. But, if he does find fitness and form, I agree he could be another Sutto out there for us. Just needs to make his tackles and his metres first ahead of the fancy ball playing stuff. He got dropped at Manly for not pulling his weight as a member of the pack.
We haven't been lucky with it the past couple of years... Our injury rate seems to be the highest in the NRL
Munro rumoured to have a shoulder issue currently not too serious though.
Same thing happened last year,he had a calf problem and couldnt train and wasnt fit,it looked like he had a belly poking out,because of his age maybe he should be managed different so he dosent strain his calfs and he gets fitter,from what ive heard,injuries are starting to stunt the preseason,shuster again,like at manly injured,shaque again,cody ,again, maybe they need to get in early and get a bit of massage on those calfs before training,mellars has a recurring hamstring problem and should see a specialist
Hopefully trell performs and dosent get injured this season,shaque is only there to keep him happy,i wish he would lose 5kg more
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