Is today on telly?
That is disappointing.Not on Fox, not on 9.
BarTV on youtube co-host the NSWRL on youtube. I think I have that right.Does the NSWRL website live stream all of the Canterbury Cup games? If not they should pull their finger out and sort it out.
Damn, that’s a shame.
Does Taka keep his spot ?
Does McIllwrick do enough today to earn a bench gig ?
Moylan will be a huge loss for them, not so much Gal
Just got to keep an eye on Johnson, and we should be ok and back in the winners circle
Salmon to center for Taka.
Tep back as 13.
"Bench"
Mannah
Terepo
Taka
McIllwraith.
No. I watched him for Wenty.
This year is about developing and retention. We need to work out what young blokes are starters for 2020.
Is Salmon a starting centre? Let's find out. Taka to bench. Salmon can fill in hooker for 15mins while Taka plays centre and 2nd row.
Who drops out for Tepai?
Based on form Alvaro
I think you mean Taka to Wenty.
Although maybe we can carry him on the bench until Manu is back.
BTW if you drop Alvaro for Tepai, who is going to cover Alvaro's work in defence? You're basically setting Tepai up to get fatigued faster like Polar did this weekend...
Well it means 4 forwards on bench so the workload will be reduced across the park. Plus I am sure Tepai can handle 35 tackles a game.
Spot on. It’s amazing the “sports scientists” only look at stat lines when analysing workloadsYeah but I said work in defence, not just tackles.
For an illustration of what I mean, go back and watch I think it was the last Roosters try, or maybe the second last. They shift right and open up space, and you see Alvaro tearing across the field to try and cover the gap. But the inside men don't move, so Alvaro has to turn and run back infield when the Roosters see the space and switch back.
Don't get me wrong, a fitter Alvaro probably closes the gap better than he did. He's certainly not at his best. But that's the kind of thing we normally have three players doing. Brown, Alvaro and Tepai are the guys who make a tackle, get up, follow the play and make two or three in a row. They're the better wrestlers. These are the guys who do the defensive work beyond tackling. Brown and Alvaro out and Tepai in will have a similar result to Brown and Tepai out and Alvaro in. We need more than one guy doing their work.
Plus you have to consider that so far Tepai has been a little bit disappointing in attack, so you take 100m out of the side and replace it with 50-odd.