Warriors v Tigers

[ozbash]

1. Brett Hodgson
2. Jason Moodie
3. Dene Halatau
4. Shane Elford
5. Daniel Fitzhenry
6. John Wilson
7. Keiran Kerr
8. Todd Payten
9. Darren Senter ©
10. John Skandalis
11. Ben Galea
12. Anthony Laffranchi
13. Scott Sattler

14. Robbie Mears
15. Chris Heighington
16. Bronson Harrison
17. Bryce Gibbs
18. Luke Covell


1. Brent Webb
2. Henry Fa'afili
3. Vinnie Anderson
4. Manu Vatuvei
5. Justin Murphy
6. Lance Hohaia
7. Stacey Jones
8. Iafeta Paleaaesina
9. Monty Betham (c)
10. Mark Tookey
11. Richard Villasanti
12. Awen Guttenbeil
13. Wairangi Koopu

14. Louis Anderson
16. Karl Temata
17. Epalahame Lauaki
18. Tevita Latu
20. Evarn Tuimavave

this will be an amazing game. i think the tigers will miss prince but they make up for him with brett hodgson.
hope lauaki gets a shot at them and tevita latu.

 

[NZ Warrior]

Tony Kemp's first mistake.... JUSTIN MURPHY #-o

Robster will be a happy man.

Villasanti is looking hungry for work, good to see him getting more game time.

 

[Meth]

Good to see Tavita return to the bench. I hope Nathan Fien isn't going to rob Latu of a place in the squad

 

[Anonymous]

Is Martin injured?? Whether or not you rate him, he is better than Murphy #-o

I'm surprised to see Tookey and Feka starting, I thought Villa would play prop and Te Mata would start. Who's going to take Faumuina's spot and play 2nd or 3rd receiver??? Our forward pack looks pretty straight up and down. Koopu or Villa to play a bit wider?

 

[SpaceMonkey]

I like Vatuvei at centre, less potential to get caught out on defence than on the wing and more chance he can break tackles and put the really quick guys (Murphy?) away. Hopefully the go-forward is ok with only 3 genuine props.

 

[NZ Warrior]

You trying to get you thread count up, Thierry.

It's a pretty bloody big forward pack when you have Villa playing in the 2nd Row.

I hope Martin is injured, I'd hate to think Kemp favours Smurphy over Martin. Or maybe Martin said something to Kemp when he was assistant coach, thinking he'd never become coach. Wouldn't that suck!!!

 

[NZ Warrior]

yeah, and if the Tigers were smart, they'd expose that wing for what it is, a defensive frailty

 

[Auckland4ever]

Will be a tough game. Hope we play with the same aggression.
Wonder if we'll start to see Kemps coaching style come through this week? He impressed me with his use of the bench against the Raiders & having Stacey back at 7 was definitely the right move.

 

[Robster]

Murphy is underated, I know I keep saying this but the Warriors wouldn't of made the the Grand Final if Henry was playing in the Sharks quarterfinal instead of Justin, and the Warriors were more then highly likely to lose if Murph didn't put that fantastic grubber kick for toopi to win the game last year against Manly.

 

[EJS]

Robster

Smurf didn't collect Fittler's 40-20 in the GFinal, after Villa smacked Brad

Caught out of position, not reading the play (Fittler kicking long on the 4th tackle all day)

Turning point in the Game, Warriors lose.

 

[Anonymous]

yeah, and Fa'afili would have run down Peachey easily in the semi, Peachey has no pace.

 

[ozbash]

yeah, and murphs mum still does his hair funny :roll:

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Henz has pulled off quite a few try saving tackles & catches in his time. Just cause smurf does a couple of good things in a semi and has some speed it doeesn't make him superior.

 

[Anonymous]

word. I felt really sorry for Fa'afili in the Roosters game. He came from nowhere to run down Byrne, who then threw that flukey pass over his head.

I'll bet Murphy would've given up.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

for a laught compare their techniques under the high ball, Henz is cool as a cucumber and can leap like an AFL player, Murphy wobbles around like he's pissed!

 

[Dr Crane]

And Henz is one of the most error free players in the game.

 

[Anonymous]

Indeed, in the top 10 out of every player in the comp.

 

[ozbash]

correct, if he was in england he,d be # 1.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

And Henz is one of the most error free players in the game.

I reckon he learned his lesson when he threw that Hodges pass in his own in-goal a few years back, he copped so much crap for it that I don't blame him for keeping the errors out of his game since!

 

[ozbash]

murphs still chuckin them tho :?