Rd 18 v Storm

[globalpanther]

Big game with bye next week.

Dyl
Turuva
Tago
Critta
To’o
Luai
Cogger
Leota
Kenny
JFH
Soro
Marto
Yeo

Soni
Lindsay
Leniu
Salmon/Hosking
18.Peachey

 

[Fangs]

Give Leniu the toughest assignment, shutting down Nelson.

I suppose you can't shut someone like that down but just go after him. I'm not really worried about anyone in their forward pack except him.

 

[Hamstring awareness]

Interested to see the make up of our bench. The team seems to go backwards when Luke comes on so it might be time for a change.

 

[Chins get the wins]

We all know my feelings on Peach...........BUT I'd have him in 14 over Soni Luke

 

[Blues Riff]

Give Leniu the toughest assignment, shutting down Nelson.

I suppose you can't shut someone like that down but just go after him. I'm not really worried about anyone in their forward pack except him.

Shutting him down?
...or shutting him up?

 

[Luke Bowden]

We all know my feelings on Peach...........BUT I'd have him in 14 over Soni Luke

Because you are clueless

 

[Chins get the wins]

Because you are clueless

Oh Lukey you're only seeing what you want. We noticeably got worse with Soni on the field. He'd be much better off trying to play 80mins in cup

 

[PANTHERMIKE]

Tough task, but really underwhelmed by the Storm this year. We dominate the middle, we win. Pretty simple game plan.

 

[Chins get the wins]

Tough task, but really underwhelmed by the Storm this year. We dominate the middle, we win. Pretty simple game plan.

Agree. They would need to score a few tries bombing our wingers to be in this. Luckily while they have 2 good halves neither are particularly good kickers

 

[Michael Matral]

This round shapes up to be a very important one as it sets up our Top 4 nicely. Not the end of the world if we lose as the other top teams keep losing it seems but a win would be huge. With the bye to follow, this buys us some extra time for Nath to recover with the Dolphins game still 3 weeks away. We may or may not rest him depending on his recovery but after that we have a full strength side to take on the Bulldogs, Sharks, Storm again, Titans, the Eels and then the Cowboys for some pay back. Top 4 looking good.

 

[martielang]

I think I'd go back to Hosking on an edge and Sorensen back to the bench with Smith (unluckily) dropping out. Firms up our defense a little IMO and I think some more footwork around the middle v Storm could be effective.

 

[betcats]

IF we dont give them cheap possesion and field position our defence will get us over the line, honestly pretty much every game this year its our discipline that is the major factor in winning or losing, our attack has at times struggled but our defence is better than ever. Complete high and keep the relieving penalties to a minimum and it really takes a great performance to beat us, but if we invite teams into the game and put ourselves under pressure we can get in trouble, that is when we miss kiks and api, when we are looking for a big play to re-establish dominance on the game previous years we had so much class across the park we would always have someone come up with something, without those two now we are sometimes found lacking. But again our discipline is good we wouldn't be in that position because we just suffocate teams out of the game when we are playing well.

 

[betcats]

Didnt watch Melbourne this week but NAS has been spending time on an edge, need to look at how we will cover that especially if he lines up against cogger, Put Martin on him he loves a big fella like that, he can charge him and not have to worry about late footwork beating him.

 

[Luke Bowden]

I think I'd go back to Hosking on an edge and Sorensen back to the bench with Smith (unluckily) dropping out. Firms up our defense a little IMO and I think some more footwork around the middle v Storm could be effective.

This is a hard one.

I’ve loved what Smith has brought to the team, but Hosking is so solid on the right.

I tend to agree. Id go Marto on the Left with Hosking on the Right.

 

[Munky]

Didnt watch Melbourne this week but NAS has been spending time on an edge, need to look at how we will cover that especially if he lines up against cogger, Put Martin on him he loves a big fella like that, he can charge him and not have to worry about late footwork beating him.

I reckon NAS will be used to target Luke.

Be interesting to see if he gets on the field. If so I hope not at the same time as Kenny. We seem to lose the middle defending with both on together.

 

[Iamback]

I think I'd go back to Hosking on an edge and Sorensen back to the bench with Smith (unluckily) dropping out. Firms up our defense a little IMO and I think some more footwork around the middle v Storm could be effective.

Hosking had a stint in the middle on the weekend and was pretty good even if they want to keep Sorro starting

 

[soc123_au]

I'd be sending Soni back to cup for a bit more game time and keeping Smith in the rotation. If Kenny gets a bit loose Salmon to 6 & Luai to 9 for 10 or 15 minutes.

 

[WestyLife]

Didnt watch Melbourne this week but NAS has been spending time on an edge, need to look at how we will cover that especially if he lines up against cogger, Put Martin on him he loves a big fella like that, he can charge him and not have to worry about late footwork beating him.

Imagine running straight and hard at Martin. Pretty much assisted suicide.

 

[Iamback]

Didnt watch Melbourne this week but NAS has been spending time on an edge, need to look at how we will cover that especially if he lines up against cogger, Put Martin on him he loves a big fella like that, he can charge him and not have to worry about late footwork beating him.

It is a good challenge across the board this week

 

[soc123_au]

Imagine running straight and hard at Martin. Pretty much assisted suicide.

Martin and NAS full pelt at each other would be a throwback to Spud vs Chief, it would go close to splitting an atom.