3. JWH
2. Manu
1. Walker
Very nearly picked Iku, Zadar but Manu was involved in everything and Walker for the reasons you mentioned got in his way for me. So glad to see him cement a permanent spot as a starter. Keighran was looking good for a while but his defence needs massive working on which I hope Fitzy can fix before he leaves. Nevertheless, he’s got a decent boot on him which helped save us in the end. Angus should leave the smugness to Penrith. Anyway, the game never should’ve got as close as it did and we’ll take some lessons out of it. Some bizarre decisions attributing to a bizarre game and Robbo has some legitimate questions that need answering. Not looking forward to next week against Riff thanks to match review lottery with Jared/Angus having carry overs? SST possibly not fit either and no Rads of course.
Suaali definitely looks like he belongs, and if verrills isn’t back, I would be so tempted to put lam at hooker, Manu to 5/8 just to start accomodating suaali.We really need Verrills back. Thought he was named in the squad earlier in the week. So yeh, must be close. Also forgot to mention Lam had his best game for the club yesterday. That little run to set Sam up was beautiful.
Suaali definitely looks like he belongs, and if verrills isn’t back, I would be so tempted to put lam at hooker, Manu to 5/8 just to start accomodating suaali.
I would not move Lam to hooker. His defence is decent but not top notch compared to some others, whilst Keighran has demonstrated he is up to the task as well as giving us a top notch goal kicker to boot.
As to Manu, I would leave him in the centres. In 2022 I suspect our centres will be either Morris/Manu with Suaali on the right wing or (if Morris decides to retire) Suaali/Manu.