Team list Tuesday vs Dolphins ~ Sat 3pm

[84 Baby]

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Dolphins 13-18 is good odds

 

[lingard]

Seeing Waqa Blake on the reserves list scares the daylights out of me. He's creeping closer to 1st grade. Like a zombie who just won't die.

 

[yy_cheng]

I’m not convinced of Asi as a bench spot outside emergency cover so if we were going to be super aggressive a bench of:
14. Matterson
15/16/17. Pick three of Ofahengaue, Greig, Makatoa, Ogden or Davey

Makatoa, Ogden & to lesser extent Davey for mine have been in superb form.

I think its better to have asi there in case of an injury or head knock in the backs.

Even if he doesn't play any minutes

I just don't think the 4th forward will get many minutes any way

 

[Soren Lorenson]

Seeing Waqa Blake on the reserves list scares the daylights out of me. He's creeping closer to 1st grade. Like a zombie who just won't die.

Well he’s not going to replace the Penis or Superman, so chances are pretty good he stays in reserve grade barring injuries.

 

[Bandwagon]

I’m not convinced of Asi as a bench spot outside emergency cover so if we were going to be super aggressive a bench of:
14. Matterson
15/16/17. Pick three of Ofahengaue, Greig, Makatoa, Ogden or Davey

Makatoa, Ogden & to lesser extent Davey for mine have been in superb form.

One of either Greig or Ogden, Same one of either Davey or Maka, and Joffa

That way another big body, and a coupla guys who are gonna work harder in defense.

 

[Bandwagon]

They can still shuffle the run on side. Plus knowing Fittler, he’ll probably only get a dozen minutes tomorrow anyway

Yep, but knowing Freddy he might also give Haas 12 minutes and Jnr 60.

 

[T.S Quint]

Seeing Waqa Blake on the reserves list scares the daylights out of me. He's creeping closer to 1st grade. Like a zombie who just won't die.

Zombies are already dead.

 

[Sensei Cobra]

Is our bench a little middle heavy ?
Matto can play on the edge but he is most effective in the middle.
Once lane and grieig are back will be curious to see what BA does. I suspect Davey stays somewhere in the 17 given he’s a specialist edge plus Arthur has shown he favours him

 

[Sensei Cobra]

Asi provides an option too which would make the forward battle for spots even more interesting.
We could have 2-3 nrl standard forwards in good form playing reserve grade

 

[Bandwagon]

Zombies are already dead.

But they're the living dead,

Makes you think eh

One of life's great questions.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Seeing Waqa Blake on the reserves list scares the daylights out of me. He's creeping closer to 1st grade. Like a zombie who just won't die.

He's proving more resilient than his own hair, which is some feat.

 

[the phantom menace]

Get everyone back and we have a possible bench of:
14. Asi
15. Joffa
16. Matto
17. Wiremu/Makatoa/Ogden

No room for Hodgson? Or would you keep Hodgson and punt Hands to Cup...?

 

[IFR33K]

Seeing Waqa Blake on the reserves list scares the daylights out of me. He's creeping closer to 1st grade. Like a zombie who just won't die.

Having him and Hodgson out is a blessing. Shame it through chance rather than choice

 

[the phantom menace]

I like the look of that squad though. Sure, they'll shuffle around post-Origin depending how Moses and Paulo pull up. But it looks good 1-20 (assuming 21 and 22 are still injured and named for the sake of it).

 

[emjaycee]

No room for Hodgson? Or would you keep Hodgson and punt Hands to Cup...?

I dont think the style of game we play needs 2 dummy halfs in the 17.
As long as we have someone on the bench that can step into dummy half and distribute the ball to our halves and our middles when they are hitting it up one off the ruck, we dont need to specialist 9's regardless of their name.

And I have never adovcated for changing a winning side just for kicks.

 

[the phantom menace]

I dont think the style of game we play needs 2 dummy halfs in the 17.
As long as we have someone on the bench that can step into dummy half and distribute the ball to our halves and our middles when they are hitting it up one off the ruck, we dont need to specialist 9's regardless of their name.

And I have never adovcated for changing a winning side just for kicks.

Agree with the reasoning for one dummy half in the 17. So for clarity you're proposing sticking with 9. Hands and Hodgson returning through Cup then?

 

[emjaycee]

Agree with the reasoning for one dummy half in the 17. So for clarity you're proposing sticking with 9. Hands and Hodgson returning through Cup then?

If we keep winning with Hands then I don't see a reason to change. But I am not on the coaching staff and don't see everything else that the coaching staff do. It might be they consider Hands' limit at 8-10 games straight before he needs a break, given he is new to FG and plays in a demanding position. It might be that we lose a couple and BA decides to bring Hodgson back into FG... lots of reason why they might not stick with Hands and go back to Hodgson and I won't necessarily doubt the validity of any decision the coaching staff make without know all the facts of why they might make it. Same if they decide to stick with Hands for the rest of the year.

 

[the phantom menace]

Whoah... so was a that a long splinters answer, rather than offering an opinion?

Or just a parody of a Pou answer?

 

[emjaycee]

Whoah... so was a that a long splinters answer, rather than offering an opinion?

Or just a parody of a Pou answer?

I think my opinion was pretty clear, in both my comments about not changing a winning side.
What that means for Hodgson I have no idea about.

 

[Bandwagon]

I reckon we'll likely return to Hodgson starting, unless the neck injury is worse than it appears.

On the same kinda note as @emjaycee above, just because Hands has been playing 80 doesn't mean playing 80 week in week out is ideal.

It's also hard to imagine that if we are gonna carry cover for hooker on the bench that we replace a genuine hooker with a makeshift one in the likes of say Asi as has been suggested