TEAM LIST Round 16 vs. Storm

[ChilledChaos]

Jonneh Bateman Captain!! If this bloke doesn’t make you want to go to war alongside him no player will. Surely he plays on an edge, his attack is ruined at lock, made 60 tackles last week. You can’t have your main attacking strike weapon defend that much. Seyfarth and Talau are literally a waste of 2 spots on the bench. Surely Matamua at Lock and Aitasi James on the bench for punch

 

[Halbrowne61]

Telstra Premiership - Round 16 vs. Storm

Saturday, June 17 - 7:35 p.m. AEST
Campbelltown Sports Stadium, Sydney

WESTS TIGERS
1. Jahream Bula
2. David Nofoaluma
3. Brent Naden
4. Asu Kepaoa
5. Junior Tupou
6. Starford To'a
7. Brandon Wakeham
8. Fonua Pole
9. Jake Simpkin
10. David Klemmer
11. Isaiah Papali’i
12. Shawn Blore
13. John Bateman (c)

14. Tallyn Da Silva
15. Tommy Talau
16. Alex Twal
17. Alex Seyfarth

18. Will Smith
19. Justin Matamua
20. Aitasi James
21. Brandon Mansfield
22. Triston Reilly
Coach: Tim Sheens

Actual or projected team KR, I thought announcement tomorrow on a short week ?

 

[Halbrowne61]

Would've liked to see someone like Zane Camroux given a go at 6 with Daino being concussed & the halves options being very limited. Someone like Will Smith isn't one for the future so I can understand why they didn't go that way but To'a has been killing it at right centre & you risk playing him out of form/losing confidence by playing him at 6.

Trust me, his confidence will go through the roof, “running the side”. Tigers 13+

 

[innsaneink]

Actual or projected team KR, I thought announcement tomorrow on a short week ?

Tues team list

 

[BlackWhiteGold]

No Aitasi James in NSW Cup last week & not named in Cup this week. Will he be another debutant?

 

[Harvey]

Putrid. Seriously, where are all these super talented youngsters we have?

 

[Halbrowne61]

Tues team list

My mistake KR and II.
No 4 the liability imo, why not give Tom T a chance to redeem himself, Asu not a flash centre at all.

 

[Tigers_Wests]

No Aitasi James in NSW Cup last week & not named in Cup this week. Will he be another debutant?

Never read too much into a NSW Cup team list, it appears to be just rushed on a Tuesday from the club and rarely reflects the team on game day.

 

[Qwertyrick]

No Aitasi James in NSW Cup last week & not named in Cup this week. Will he be another debutant?

Riley not named either, says he’s out. But named 22 on NRL list

 

[Moh]

Crap game for TDS to debut.

Won't be able to gauge much I suspect, but hope he plays his part well. A lot of hype.

 

[Halbrowne61]

I’d be using the Bellamy strategy of giving him three things to focus on.

Make your tackles effective
Clean ball to your ball carrier out in front
Run when the ruck is quick

Do those things well and it’s a good debut. Everything else is just noise.

Excellent advice for an emerging player.

 

[Tucker]

Putrid. Seriously, where are all these super talented youngsters we have?

Half of them are still getting dropped off to school by their mums.

 

[Tiger_Fanatic3]

Drop Seyfarth, promote Matamua to bench.

 

[Love_the_WestsTigers]

Really disappointing to see players like Talau keep their spot after last weeks game. Even worse seeing him and Seyfarth both in the 17.
A lot more players out there who’d do better and most certainly deserve a chance. Not these two.

 

[Sco77y]

Would've liked to see someone like Zane Camroux given a go at 6 with Daino being concussed & the halves options being very limited. Someone like Will Smith isn't one for the future so I can understand why they didn't go that way but To'a has been killing it at right centre & you risk playing him out of form/losing confidence by playing him at 6.

It’s Sheenius, as they say. I suppose we can be thankful he hasn’t put a forward in there (yet)

 

[TheDaBoss]

Simpkin would got to 7 and TDS hooker I’d imagine

Talau 6????

 

[Tito Santana]

Toa has plenty of confidence so good luck seeing the ball get past him. I like that though. I like arrogant players. Blake Austin like. Yes.

Maybe it means we see more of Bula chiming in out the back. Oh behave!

 

[The Chad]

Risky, but given where we are atm, why not be risky I guess?

Storm still have a big pack of forwards & Hughes. This game will be won in the trenches. Those complaining Seyfarth is in the squad- his size is needed. Talau is probably the one I'd sacrifice. James or Fainu would help counter the massive size of Nelson, let alone the rest of that pack.

 

[upthetigers]

Demps called it, To'a to 6.

 

[Tucker]

To’a at 6 is interesting.
He has never shown any inkling to be a ball player, even as a center his run to pass ratio is very low. He charges into the defence with force and keeps moving, that’s his strength.
His tackle efficiencies are not great either, always sub 90%. Additionally, he will be required to be the dominant long kicker as Wakehams long boot is not fantastic.
He makes a lot of meters running the ball, but that’s against centres and wingers. Now he is facing halves and backrowers.
Not saying he can’t do it, but I would have used a specialist and hoped that they could step up. We tried to manufacture him as a fullback last year to our failure, hopefully we aren’t repeating that effort and havent weakened our centres to also weaken our halves.