SOO 13 Game 1: Official NSW Squad

[Mr Saab]

Turner is up there, but Buhrer offered nothing to the team before, during and obviously after as he was not chosen again.
He is not a dummy half, he has no real size about him, no x factor.

 

[ek999]

Buhrer was simply a strange decision. Made absolutely no sense to anyone but the NSW selectors

 

[lockyno1]

Nothing, and i mean nothing beats the selection of Jamie Buhrer. That will go down as the worst ever selection in origin history

There have been some rip snorters in recent times...

Turner
Buhrer
Kidley as captain on the bench
Reynolds

:lol:

 

[lockyno1]

Buhrer was simply a strange decision. Made absolutely no sense to anyone but the NSW selectors

Lets make things clear it was ONE selector...Fulton:lol:

 

[Munky]

Steve Turner just smiled to himself somewhere.

Turner while ordinary was hung out to dry by Gasnier being caught constantly out of the line.

Turner atleast got a hand on GI while Gaz was in no mans land.

 

[BranVan3000]

Queensland have been forced to pick a relatively small bench of backrowers. Anyone find it amazing we are still talking about conceding a size advantage to them when we are probably in our best position for picking forwards in a number of years?

QLD
415kg

NSW with Sutton
419kg

NSW with Reynolds
404kg

With Grant we would have had a 425kg bench

 

[Mr Saab]

Laurie likes "adaptable" players. It has been his buzz word since he joined the media

 

[Amadaca]

Nothing, and i mean nothing beats the selection of Jamie Buhrer. That will go down as the worst ever selection in origin history

They could play another thousand years & Gidley would still be bottom of that ocean.

 

[BranVan3000]

Word is that Josh Reynolds got the spot. Daley's reasoning is that Maloney ended up calming down Pearce a little too much. Reynolds is there to excite Pearce when he is too calm

 

[Shorty]

Well if they do that they neutralise what was going to be their advantage going into the game.

 

[Noa]

Josh Reynolds is easily the most over-rated player going around. Shouldnt be anywhere near origin and will get found out big time.

At the very worst Sutton would have been adequate with the chance of carving QLD up with his running game

 

[lockyno1]

The bigger question will be......will Reynolds be worse than Buhrer!

 

[BennyV]

Josh Reynolds is easily the most over-rated player going around. Shouldnt be anywhere near origin and will get found out big time.

At the very worst Sutton would have been adequate with the chance of carving QLD up with his running game

I concur - was made to look good last year by the good form of Barba and Morris, but in reality he is just Michael Ennis #2 - somewhat talented, mostly limited, niggling little pest that is more likely to lose us the game through stupid penalties than come up with a match winning play, and thats why morons say he is 'built for origin'

 

[Mr Saab]

1543hrs and still no word on who is the replacement.

 

[PinkPanther]

John Sutton named.

 

[BranVan3000]

I'm hearing Sutton confirmed?

 

[PinkPanther]

Also heard Reynolds in.
This is confusing.

 

[HowHigh]

From the official NSWRL twitter..

NSWRL ‏@NSWRL 5m NSW VB Blues Coach Laurie Daley has just announced @joshreynolds9 as Kurt Gidley's replacement. #uptheblues #Origin

 

[Springs]

I'm sure he'll be great in the 6 minutes he's on.

 

[ek999]

Lol. They did orignally tweet that Sutton was named