Round 10 Sharks vs Melbourne Team

[Punk]

1 David Peachey
2 Nathan Merritt
3 Nigel Vagana
4 Phil Bailey
5 David Simmons
6 Mat Hilder
7 Brett Kimmorley
8 Jason Stevens
9 Michael Sullivan
10 Danny Nutley
11 Paul Gallen
12 Andrew Lomu
13 Daniel Dumas

Interchange:
14 Jason Williams
15 Sam Isemonger
16 Matt Bickerstaff
17 Reece Williams
18 Pat Gibson
19 Keith Galloway
21 Ryan McGoldrick

 

[SirShire]

Sullivan starting hooker?

Yippee!

A bench of J Williams, Isemonger, Bickers and big Keith would be good.

 

[blacktip-reefy]

Well for the the most hyped up reserve grade player ever, now is his chance!!!!

I hope the (prophetical)hype turns out to be acurate.

 

[wittyfan]

Good to see Merritt finally back.

 

[lolesi]

Sullivan starting is good, meritt better play well! simmons is lucky to still be there

 

[carinashark]

This Storm team will clean us up! Its a Very good side we have to beat and I dont think some of the players are up for it. Sullivan and Kimmorly are the only two who may get us over the line . But will the others back them up? Its like Stevens , he was smashing the Dragons ALL By Himself! Oh ok Williams was killing them when he was on but umm . We are now offically soft up the middle!
Carinashark

 

[BeenThere]

Well for the the most hyped up reserve grade player ever, now is his chance!!!!

I hope the (prophetical)hype turns out to be acurate.

:?: Of whom do you speak :?:

 

[lolesi]

2. Nathan Merritt

I think.

 

[BeenThere]

Yeah, think you are right lolesi -- just got around to reading some of the other posts.

 

[SirShire]

I think this game will be huge for Sully. Noddy will no doubt be a bit buggered from playing City-Country, as will Stevo. Even though Noddy will still be calling the shots, Sully will be playing a much more dominant role I reckon. The forwards will need to step up for Stevo too.

 

[newman]

We are gonna struggle without Beattie.

Despite his form, without him we struggle for size and penetration.

The little guys can try as hard as they want, but for cryin out loud, their rugby league players, and rugby league players need to be monsters.

Stevo (whos gonna be wrecked) and Williams aint enough.

 

[Special K]

I hope Mcgoldy gets 4 and moves Bails back to lock. Simmo gets another chance that is ok but I dunno how many more chances he should have at the moment. His a talent but dunno if his time is right now.

Go Sully!

 

[wittyfan]

Yep, Sully's set for a big one.

 

[Craigshark]

I like it, i probably would have had Saleh in for Simmons, and Franze for Bailey, where Bailey goes back in to the pack.. But its all good.. Ill be interested to see how Merritt goes..

 

[troy]

even though he's not a 5/8 id almost play Sully there . Mind you he play's as a second half back out of dummy half like wingy etc .... they just seem so soft and lack so much spark !! I just don't think we have a good enough team - Sat night was terrible !!

The try's were straight up the god damn middle of the pack ......

 

[Foz]

As long as Noddy and Stevo back up I cant see Bailey starting in the centres.
He thought himself he'd be better suited to the back row after Saturday Night's game.
Might give Melbourne something to aim at and Stu will change the tactics a bit.
(I'm hoping anyway).

 

[shadowboxer]

have no idea why simmons is still there. I reckon he is very lucky. Good news about sully and nice to see merritt in the squad. We will wait and see how they square up, but after a surprise loss on the weekend, the storm will be looking to make amends.

Nutley was okay on saturday night, what has happened to beattie??? His new job will probally be sideline eye from now on and making stupid predictions.

 

[Mr Angry]

I notice Merritt has been teamed with Vagana on the right side, with Simmons and Bailey left side.
Hmmm.......Raper must have his reasons.
I hope Sully plays the 80 mins.
I happy to see Galloway back in the coaches mind.
Goldy is obviously the next centre of choice. Has to be in the 17 - otherwise we cannot afford a threequarter injury. I like Gallen but not as a centre.

 

[shadowboxer]

gallen filled in well when he palyed for gold against raiders, but i agree this is going to be a different game

 

[spirit of league]

simmons is very lucky. i really think we should have saleh in for him until he learns how to tackle. same goes for rieck i am glad to see merritt back but he needs to improve on his divvy effort last week. aim up and put your shoulder into it lads, defence is about attitude and commitment.

for his size and aggression i'd like beattie back to start for nutley moving to the bench. galloway must be pushing for a spot after last week, but williams, nutley, galloway on the bench lacks mobility so leave either isemonger or bickerstaff in for a while. probably bicks i think isemonger has gone off the boil again after a cracker against canberra (although i haven't checked any stats to confirm my opinion)

i don't see enough form in any of our lower grade centres yet to shifty bailey back to the 2nd row, which is disappointing.

i love sully's work but i'm not sure that switching gametime with gibson or giving him 80 mins is going to produce the best possible results from his game, we'll find out this week i guess.

we will need to step up to even be competitive with melbourne this week. saints were just red hot last week so i don't see another thrashing, but a win will definitely be an upset at olympic park where we've only ever won once.

i'm hoping for a turnaround from peach to inspire the guys to better things.