Gus Gould summed it up best to beat Melbourne you have to be different you can’t do the same things you did in the regular season.Kenny and May will not win us games they are steady solid footballers.we need to take the chance on Tago he has that X factor you can’t train to defend
Whilst i 100% agree. We know ivan will play may or kenny.
Theres three way we could go at full strength imo of the bench. Ivans 1-13 at full strength will be.
Edwards
Staines
Critta
Burton
Too
Luai
Cleary
Leota
Api
Fish
Kiks
Capes
Yeo
Bench 1- safe option
14. May
15. Martin
16. Sorensen
17. Tpj
Bench 2- Backline cover x factor option
14. Tago
15. Martin
16. Sorensen
17. Tpj
Bench 3- forward smash them off the park option (tpj and spencer back to back hit ups does get me excited haha)
14. Martin
15. Spencer
16. Tpj
17. Sorensen
Part of me thinks that bench option 3 has way to much fire power for any other nrl team to stop.
You could give jfh leota kiks capes first 30mins. Then
8. Sorensen
9. Api
10. Spencer
11. Tpj
12. Martin
13. Yeo
Tell the reserves they have last 10 of first half and first 10-15mins of second half to absolutley rip in and leave nothing in the tank.
Than bring back on kiks capes jfh and leota fresh with 25mins to go.
I think thatd be really hard for teams to contain.
But i guess have to weigh up the risk of an injury to api, the halves of a back.
So option 1 and 2 definitley provide some cover and bit of security. Option 3 would be the hardest for teams to contain.
Weve seen over the last two years that when our team gets a roll on in terms of yardage nath and luai are able to tear teams apart. Once we get down to opposing teams end they can apply endless amounts of pressure with constant set restarts.
Those set restarts with blokes like tpj running at halfs out wide on the line is basically unstoppable.
If we can get into a prelim and gf again id be very tempted to go option 3 and go all or nothing. Not sure we beat melbs in a gf playing it safe.