Your KIWI team for the Anzac test

[hitman82]

Here's mine...

1. Josh Hoffman
2. Jason Nightingale
3. Kieran Foran
4. SKD
5. Manu Vatuvei
6. Benji Marshall
7. Shaun Johnson
8. Ben Matulino
9. Issac Luke
10. Sam Rapira (assuming he smashes back into form)
11. Simon Mannering
12. Adam Blair
13. Jeremy Smith

14. Lewis Brown
15. Sam McKendry
16. Sika Manu
17. JWH (thug life)

 

[Izz]

No Jbro?

 

[hitman82]

No Jbro?

Bro. If he hits form in time, he's straight into my line up!!! :lol:

 

[vvvrulz]

Does it even matter who gets picked.

 

[hitman82]

Does it even matter who gets picked.

you mean because we are going to smash those stinking aussie c.unts regardless?

 

[vvvrulz]

But jokes aside I pretty much agree with your line-up there although I'd consider Sam Perrett at the back. I'd also take Fien ahead of Luke any day and surprised to see no Asotasi there.

 

[Fast Eddie]

I'd use this game as an opportunity to give Taumalolo a Jersey, to lock him in. But yeah your line up looks alright, except maybe Inu at 5/8th.

 

[Scott]

Adam Blair & Sika Manu should be nowhere near a NZ side. Both are filthy cheap shot merchants in defence and lazy in attack. 2 of the most over rated players to ever wear the Kiwi jersey.

1. Locke
2. Vatuvei
3. Ropati
4. SKD
5. Beale
6. Marshall
7. Foran
8. McKendry
9. Luke
10. Matulino
11. Mannering
12. E. Taylor (big call, but playing well enough imo)
13. Smith

14. Fein
15. Papali'i
16. Eastwood
17. Rapira/ JWH

 

[Fast Eddie]

Well thats just straight up not true.

 

[Izz]

Adam Blair has been absolute garbage so far this season. Hitting the line like a feather, giving away lots of penalties, missing a ton of tackles, and the ones he's making usually involve twisting the arm somehow.

 

[doogiehowser_md]

Adam Blair & Sika Manu should be nowhere near a NZ side. Both are filthy cheap shot merchants in defence

Thats exactly why Blair, Manu and Smith should always be in every Kiwi team, like it or not they are the best wrestlers which means a lot in this era of the game. Kearney knows it.

1. Hoffman
2. Nightingale
3. Glenn
4. Kenny-Dowall
5. Vatuvei
6. Marshall
7. Johnson
8. Matulino
9. Foran
10. Blair
11. Manu
12. Mannering
13. Smith

14. JWH
15. Taumalolo
16. Papali'i
17. Luke

18th Man - Beale

 

[Warrior@Heart]

1. Hoffman (Safer than Locke)
2. Nightingale (In form winger of the comp)
3. Glenn
4. SKD
5. Duffie
6. Marshall
7. Johnson
8. Mckendry
9. Foran
10. JWH
11. Mannering
12. Papali'i
13. Smith

14. Luke
15. Matulino
16. Tamou
17. Taumalolo

 

[Mixmasterreece]

1. Hoffman
2. Nightingale
3. Winterstein
4. Skd
5. Perret
6. Foran
7. Marshall
8. Mckendry
9. Luke
10. Matulino
11. Mannering
12. Papali'i
13. Smith

14. Brown
15. Jhw
16. Tamou
17. Taumalolo

 

[Penrose Warrior]

I'd use this game as an opportunity to give Taumalolo a Jersey, to lock him in. But yeah your line up looks alright, except maybe Inu at 5/8th.

Taumalolo has already committed to Queensland

 

[Meth]

1- Hoffman
2- Nightingale
3- Glenn
4- Kenny-Dowall
5- Perrett
6- Marshall
7- Foran
8- Matulino
9- Fien
10- McKendry
11- Mannering
12- Manu
13- Smith

Res- Pritchard, Bromwich, FPN, Luke

18th man- Taia

 

[Izz]

Taumalolo has already committed to Queensland

Nah, he's still undecided apparently. Paper got it wrong.

 

[beefstew]

1. Locke
2. Nightingale
3. Beale
4. SKD/Ropati
5. Hoffman
6. Marshall
7. Johnson
8. Matulino
9. Foran
10.McKendry
11.Mannering
12.Blair....purely for his ability to piss the opposition off.
13.Taylor

14.Packer
15.Pritchard
16.Eastwood
17.Taumalolo/Papali'i

 

[Meth]

I don't understand anybody selecting a halves combination that isn't;

6- Marshall
7- Foran.

Marshall at 7?

Foran in the centers or at hooker?

Come on guys

 

[Izz]

Personally i'd like to see Foran at lock if we can't play him at 6. He's not good in the 7 jersey, imo.

 

[beefstew]

I don't understand anybody selecting a halves combination that isn't;

6- Marshall
7- Foran.

Marshall at 7?

Foran in the centers or at hooker?

Come on guys

I think Foran has all the attributes to play 9, and would be the equal of Smith in every department.

I also think foran plays his best at 6 in a very structured team, something he's just not going to get
in the Kiwi's.