Yeah it is hard want to keep a stable spine. Good prop. Good backrower. Need some class out wide kinda like the way the storm have done it
we need a that prop, Tamou is great, but we need one that bends that line everytime, my suggestion is we move Kikau to lock, and JFH and Tamou are our props, the rotation of Leota and RCG will keep that trucking
We had our forwards steam roll everyone early last year, before RCG became "glass jaw" before origin II.
He'll get better and be back to his best in a year or 2, but im not seeing the value of kikaus edge running, when he can tire out THEIR middles, we have our own taumalolo, but we waste him on an edge, and now we have a brand new actual taumalolo, Spencer.
Liam martin and Yeo, are the 2nd rowers, get them there, have Kikau turn up in the middle
This one off egde running cant last, teams will sort out how to minimize it, but if you tire their middles, kikau has a direct route to the try line
Id have the current team, like this
1.Edwards
2.Mansour
3.Naden
4.Whare
5.To'o
6.Luai
7.Cleary
8.JFH
9.Maloney
10.Tamou
11.Martin
12.Yeo (C)
13.Kikau
14.Kenny (utility Hooker/Lock)
15.Winterstien
16.Leota
17.RCG
Now Winterstien is key, he replaces any backs that go down, by pushing Yeo into centres, or Whare to F/B
If Peachey returns, at perminent centre, Naden goes to the wing,Mansour is dropped
Those monsters in the middle just need to keep tight around jimmy in defence, and jimmy takes the hits as he does, slows them down or atleast is the drawing target, the forwards will take them down to the ground, keep the opposion running in the middle, and when kenny comes on, jimmy can play to the edges, and whichever back thats had a average game can come off, or at lock to give a fwd a rest, main thing is rotation in fwds gives us an advantage, plus cleary and luai as halves settling as a backline.
Maloney is like Wallace, he has better control of the game from dumy half, just like cameron smith does, but playing outside cleary has stunted his impact. He needs hands on ball before cleary, like wallace did.
Can u imagine how many dummy half scoots he would have then have Cleary, Kikau and Luai as 1st options. Not to mention Field Goal city straight from dummy half, he'd be slotting them everytime he'd get to the forty.
.... penrith panthers win 39-0 ....1 try by kikau, convertion by cleary, 23 field goals by Maloney, 5 penalty conversations by Maloney
