TEAM vs. TIGERS

[bluefox68]

Same starting 13…

14. Atko
15. Sifa
16. Hau Tapuha
17. Hazelton

19. BHU*

 

[bluefox68]

Interesting RESERVES:

18. Berrell
19. BHU
20. Burns
21. H. Puru
22. Colquhoun

 

[Ozzi_78]

Galvin named for the tigers, what a shambles of a club.

 

[DJDL]

14. Atko

AFP

 

[Bookie]

Galvin named for the tigers, what a shambles of a club.

And a blinder he shall have. It is written.

 

[R-15-3]

Galvin is a 1 trick pony with his big cut out balls to the wing. Stonestreet needs to stay on his wing

 

[ragzouken]

Another 6 points for this years dally m player of the year William Kennedy

 

[roboshark]

Will be heaps of pressure in the tigers. They will either be on big time, or we will do them by 40

 

[Craigshark]

Galvin is a 1 trick pony with his big cut out balls to the wing. Stonestreet needs to stay on his wing

you just know the tigers will go there and there is almost no chance he stays on his wing

 

[Quicksilver]

Galvin named for the tigers, what a shambles of a club.

He is risen

 

[Since 73]

AFP

14. Atko.

Infathomable.

Even Fitzs most ardent supporter would struggle to explain the reasoning for this continual selection.

He is leaving the club. So we are continuing to develop this guy who's future lies entirely elsewhere.
If he was a star, sure. If he had X factor, of course. If he came on and had the Ryan Paps impact and cut the defence to shreds.
Why not.
Squeeze every drop out of the lemon whilst we are paying him.

BUT....he offers nothing.
Zilch.
He comes on every week and makes farkall impact. Week after week after week.

There's some strange f**king things going on with selections.
Things are not kosher.

 

[Ozzi_78]

I agree. It sounds like he is playing him in fear of an injury to a back but I can think of other ways to get around that with our current cattle. Especially with Sifa on the bench.

Either he is holding his cards close to his chest or he is actually clueless.

I’d have Hohepa personally. What a pocket rocket.

 

[DJDL]

I agree. It sounds like he is playing him in fear of an injury to a back but I can think of other ways to get around that with our current cattle. Especially with Sifa on the bench.

Exactly. As I've said elsewhere, Sifa covers everything.
Some minor shuffling might be required, but no more than with ASADA.

Either he is holding his cards close to his chest or he is actually clueless.

I'm leaning toward the latter, in case it wasn't obvious from my posts of late.

I’d have Hohepa personally. What a pocket rocket.

What must it do for a player's confidence to know that week in, week out, regardless of how you perform in NSW Cup, you won't be picked in NRL?

Have a look at the ytd stats for each of them.
14 is traditionally reserved for an "impact" player.
Which of these players is having an impact on their respective matches?

ASADA


Hohepa



I know stats are not the be all and end all of analysis, but honestly, to be 7 rounds in and our first string "impact" player has has contributed a grand tally of 2 tackle breaks and nothing else, it just beggars belief that he is continually selected.

A!
F!
P!

 

[bad boy bubby]

Every week in the NRL brings tests.
What's a main test this week?

To see if they can shut out the noise and play to their own game without letting the drama from the other club come into it.

 

[chewsta]

Toby will be missed. He has been great off the bench with Sifa. The two of them come on and really lift the intensity and speed of our attack.

 

[jc155776]

Trying the three man bench again this week.

Cool.

 

[glenmoresharkie]

Only reason I can think of that Atko gets picked is if the 6 or 7 gets injured. He offers absolutely nothing otherwise, a pointless 15-20 minute stint is really all he does at this point

That could be better served by Tuks or Hohepa Puru to give some experience to blokes who will be here in the long term

 

[DJDL]

Only reason I can think of that Atko gets picked is if the 6 or 7 gets injured

So what if one of them does?
We roll with an extra forward and Brails takes on more responsibility.
Or we use Hohepa on the bench who is arguably a better stop-gap half than ASADA.

Whatever the thinking, to me it defies logic.
What are the odds that we do lose a half during the game?
And are those odds so great that we effectively play with 16 each week?

AFP.

 

[Bookie]

We mentally / skillwise lose one of the halves each week anyway. DA not stepping in with a decent grubber or sidestep.