Round 21 v Dragons

[globalpanther]

D Laurie
S Turuva
J Cole/C McLean
I Tago
B To’o
J Luai
N Cleary
M Leota
M Kenny
J Fisher-Harris
S Sorensen
L Martin
I Yeo

T Toelau
L Smith
L Henry
M Geyer/M Eisenhuth

 

[Luke Bowden]

Solid team. Should win easily

 

[WestyLife]

Nice team. Poor dragons. Hopefully McLean at centre and Cole playing 6 in cup for the gametime since he'll be possibly prepping for next year depending what happens.

 

[Iamback]

Garner is due back

 

[WestyLife]

Garner is due back

Him, Martin and Sorensen all in at the same time will be big. Can actually play the middles in the middle.

 

[globalpanther]

Dragons tougher at WIN. We need to be physical. They tend to have 1 good half and 1 poor half per match, we play for 80 well we should win.

 

[PennyPanthers81]

I hate that Dyl is injured but so happy to see Laurie getting a solid go at FB. He's a weapon.

 

[snickers007]

I expect us to be really up for this one.

Team almost at full fitness, a chance to avenge our shock loss to the Drags during Origin, and kicking off the run into September.

I'm expecting a BIG statement here - and hopefully no injuries.

 

[Chins get the wins]

Solid team. Should win easily

You'll get in trouble saying stuff like this

 

[Chins get the wins]

Wonder if the 18 year old kid Casey can play on the right? I'd be very interested to see if moving Tago to left would help him at all. It's now or never to try find a solution in 2024. Just waiting for him recapture some form clearly isn't working.

 

[WestyLife]

Solid team. Should win easily

Yes we should. We are objectively superior to them with our origin goats back.

 

[Iamback]

Him, Martin and Sorensen all in at the same time will be big. Can actually play the middles in the middle.

The way the outside backs are going. He will end up at centre before long

 

[WestyLife]

The way the outside backs are going. He will end up at centre before long

Doubt he drops tago. He seems to be hoping the right side will fix with more consistent roster.

 

[Chins get the wins]

Doubt he drops tago. He seems to be hoping the right side will fix with more consistent roster.

It's a bit delusional imo

 

[Iamback]

Doubt he drops tago. He seems to be hoping the right side will fix with more consistent roster.

Injuries is what I meant but yes no one is getting dropped

 

[soc123_au]

Wonder if the 18 year old kid Casey can play on the right? I'd be very interested to see if moving Tago to left would help him at all. It's now or never to try find a solution in 2024. Just waiting for him recapture some form clearly isn't working.

It's worth a shot. Would be nice to have it fixed over the next month.

 

[maple_69]

It's definitely worth a shot to get Izack going but I have no idea how comfortable Casey is on the right. He's adapted to Flegg/Cup/NRL lightning quick so I'd be surprised if he didn't nail it.

Can't wait to see Luai and Cleary combine. Haven't had those two together and in form in a couple years really. How they link up will be fascinating. Hopefully we see a lot more switching of roles. It's been brewing since late last year but its largely looked clunky but Luai is in a very different spot now.

 

[WestyLife]

It's a bit delusional imo

How often has he had good decisions made for him with injury/suspension.

 

[Chins get the wins]

How often has he had good decisions made for him with injury/suspension.

He's been super arsey with it going all the way back to Moylan. He needed like 5 fullbacks and wingers to go down before he'd get a shot. Came in and was our best player for years

 

[Frankus]

I thought Tago played very well yesterday. Yeah some tries were leaked down our right edge which we've become accustomed to, but I don't think it was on him - Cleary made several bad choices in defence. Huth was defending inside Cleary for the Katoa try (and maybe Hammer's second). Tago is arguably the only player not to make a bad read in these 3 tries.

The only one you could possibly attribute to Tago (seemed to lose his feet somehow) is the Bostock try which almost got covered if not for the sublime grounding.