Roosters team announced for trial match

[ozzie]

Team for Port Macquarie Trial
Thursday, February 14, 2008

Brad Fittler has named the team for the first trial of 2008, to be played in Port Macquarie Friday night.
With most of the senior playing squad given the game off, Freddy has named a team of young guns made up from younger NRL players and NYC squad members.
1 Shaun Foley
2 Shaun Kenny-Dowall
3 Brent Grose
4 Setaimata Sa
5 Luke Towers
6 Ben Jones
7 Mitchell Pearce

8 Frank Paul-Nuuauasala
9 Riley Brown
10 David Shillington
11 Shane Shackleton
12 Anthony Cherrington
13 Danny Howard
INTERCHANGE
14 Albert Hopoate 18 Mose Masoe 22 Javarn White
15 Marty Kennedy 19 Jai Ayoub 23 Steve Meredith
16 Sandor Earl 20 Tavita Folau 24 Rohan Ahern
17 Ben Cronin 21 Stanley Waqa 25 Antonino Winterstei

Its great to see Waqa get a run - he is a big boy and was hard to handle in the lower grades last year

 

[girvie]

Its great to see Waqa get a run - he is a big boy and was hard to handle in the lower grades last year

I hope Waqa makes it to the NRL by 2009. I think he's a quality player.


Who are they playing?

 

[Deleted member 10972]

Port Macquarie.

Personally i would have started Ayoub ahead of Jones, Grose on the wing, Sa in the backrow (Cherrington & Towers to bench) with Hoppa & Folau in the centres.

 

[Monk]

i would have put sa on the bench... seeing thats whee he will start from most games this yr

 

[Geohood]

Yeah I find it odd seeing Sa in the centres, thought he'd be one of the last resorts. Anyway we don't know exactly what has been going on in the off-season and what plans are put in place.

 

[ozzie]

Yeah I find it odd seeing Sa in the centres, thought he'd be one of the last resorts. Anyway we don't know exactly what has been going on in the off-season and what plans are put in place.

nor do we know if this will be the team

 

[thehattrickrabbit]

If Big Folau was as good as people say he is, he would of been a definite starter in this game...

 

[Tom Ace]

If Big Folau was as good as people say he is, he would of been a definite starter in this game...

Notice 90% of our top line players aren't playing?

 

[ozzie]

game for our developed players

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

would the foundation cup game resemble a more full strength side?

haha ozzie you need to make another correction for chando's in ya sig - we didn't make the finals in 05 or 06

 

[ozzie]

I didn't see that - thanks for the tip

 

[Monk]

when the roosters came down 2 berkley,
i talked 2 freddy and he said this game was just 4 the up & coming guys 2 give them a game,
and that the foundation cup match should ahve a full strength side