Team v Panthers

[Meth]

Need to flush that result pretty quickly. This'll be a tough one and 2 losses on the trot won't put us in good stead. A couple of injuries. I doubt we'll see Harris or Afoa.

1- Tuivasa-Sheck
2- Fusitu'a
3- Hiku
4- Kata
5- Maumalo
6- Green
7- Johnson
8- Paasi
9- Luke
10- Sao
11- Papalii
12- Blair
13- Mannering

Res- Gavet, Satae, Tevaga, Lawton

 

[Rich102]

I thought Blair was out for another game?

 

[Meth]

Panthers should be without Peachey, Maloney and Cleary.

Peaches and Cleary have torn us apart in the past

 

[Meth]

I thought Blair was out for another game?

Nah. 2 match suspension- Denver and last night.

 

[One Warrior]

Panthers should be without Peachey, Maloney and Cleary.

Peaches and Cleary have torn us apart in the past

Penrith will also be missing Campbell-Gillard.

 

[Meth]

Penrith will also be missing Campbell-Gillard.

Yeah, well, he's injured

 

[Leber]

I'd go

1 RTS
2 Fusitua
3 Hiku
4 Kata
5 Maumalo
6 Green
7 Johnson
8 Paasi
9 Luke
10 Gavet
11 Papali
12 Mannering
13 Blair

14 Tevaga
15 Vuniyayawa/Love-Henry
16 Satae
17 Lisone

Don't see the point in having a specialist hooker on the bench when Jazz can cover there and I think Lisone is further ahead in the pecking order than Sao.

 

[Rich102]

Nah. 2 match suspension- Denver and last night.

Didn't realise the test counted.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Didn't realise the test counted.

Yep. Suspensions rule you out of test selection therefore tests count

 

[Rich102]

That was a bonus from the Denver test then.

 

[Blair]

Blair's copped it from us all year but I thought we really missed his defence in the middle last night.

 

[JJ]

Blair's copped it from us all year but I thought we really missed his defence in the middle last night.

Yeah, nah

 

[Leber]

Blair's copped it from us all year but I thought we really missed his defence in the middle last night.

Yup. I'm happy to have been surprised by Blair this year.

 

[JJ]

How many minutes did Satae play?

Bench use is dire, as is the output of our middles. Blair included even Paasi who had a good game, but I wonder if I was swayed by a couple of high impact moments, that aside Gallen, Woods, Fifita and Prior dominated, in fact their whole pack did, a worry as it's a reoccurring theme

 

[vvvrulz]

We’re not going to have to contend with Gallen, Woods and Fifita every week thankfully, but yeah we had nothing on them

 

[One Warrior]

Maybe finally we'll see Sao back, with Tohu & Bunty more than likely both out, Vete gone,
Sao should get his chance again, I have no idea what he is supposed to of done wrong.

 

[TheDMC]

Penrith will also be without Viliame Kikau, he busted his knee pretty bad today v Manly.

Any news on Bunty's and Harris' injuries?

 

[Meth]

They might be without Tamou too

 

[Philip_Smith007]

Maybe finally we'll see Sao back, with Tohu & Bunty more than likely both out, Vete gone,
Sao should get his chance again, I have no idea what he is supposed to of done wrong.

I thought I read he was late to training.
Not sure how many times? But hasn't worked his way back into team.

 

[ZEROMISSTACKLES]

Every time our front row forwards get beat up, we lose. They're simply just above average but only just.