What should the Australian Team be?

[philstorm]

Slater had an easy game because he was behind a good pack?

What a joke - didn't anyone see his breaks?

 

[Garts]

Slater is a good fullback but just becasue he played well in the GF does not mean he should get the Aussie job. Bowen and Stewart have been better all year.

 

[Deleted member 10972]

As i said in the other thread, i'd be moving away from Hindmarsh, Simpson, Carroll, O'Donnell, Ryan, & all these other plodding "worker" forwards. That is not the direction the team should be going in, otherwise guys like Stagg & Tongue would get it in. Maybe Johnson, but the rest...no.

1. Stewart/Slater
2. Hayne
3. Gasnier
4. Hodges
5. Inglis
6. Anasta
7. Cronk
8. Price
9. Smith
10. Civoniceva
11. Watmough
12. Hoffman
13. Gallen/Johnson

14. Bird
15. Creagh
16. Webb/Laffranchi/Mason
17. Bailey

At least that team starts bringing through all these gun young forwards running around. Then, for SOO, they should go with:

NSW

1. Stewart
2. Hayne
3. Gasnier
4. Cooper
5. Grothe
6. Anasta
7. Orford
8. Cross
9. Farah
10. Kite
11. Watmough
12. Hoffman
13. Gallen

14. Bird
15. Creagh
16. Mason
17. Bailey

18. White
19. (O'Meley/Ryles)
20. Tupou
21. Laffranchi
22. Mullen
23. Buderus
24. (a back?)
25. (a back?)

Mason is NOT a starting front rower at Origin level by any means. Kite, Bailey & Cross/White/O'Meley/Ryles should be the rotating props, with Mason rotating through the backrow or at frontrow for stints. The backs would depend on form, but at the current moment, assuming Lyon doesn't deserve it, i'd go with Monaghan, Merritt, Jennings or Pomeroy.

QLD

1. Hunt
2. Tate
3. Hodges
4. Folau
5. Inglis
6. Lockyer
7. Thurston
8. Price
9. Smith
10. Civoniceva
11. Webb
12. Lillyman
13. Johnson

14. Bowen
15. Costigan
16. Myles
17. Kaufusi

18. Scott
19. (Shillington/Hannant)
20. Crocker
21. Thaiday
22. (Cronk/Prince)
23. Payne
24. (Bell/Williams/Graham)
25. Slater

 

[nqboy]

My grandma using a zimmer frame could have ripped up on the returns with the sh!thouse kick chase from Manly. It was pathetic.

But she didn't, Slater did. And that's why he should have got the gig.

 

[nqboy]

Stewart was good in a badly beaten manly side

For 40 minutes. Slater was outstanding in the same 40 and was on the winning side. To the victor the spoils.

 

[Garts]

But she didn't, Slater did. And that's why he should have got the gig.

But he didnt, Stewart did.

It was always going to be him or Bowen, easily the top 2 this season.

 

[nqboy]

But he didnt, Stewart did.

It was always going to be him or Bowen, easily the top 2 this season.

Just goes to show the truth of a Bennettism. When asked what it took to be a representative player, he replied, "Three selectors."