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Benji might have to play hooker on the weekend.

Maybe so. But to let them all go without a player in return just looks like a sh!t show. Particularly local juniors who we have put a lot of development into. Perhaps we were boxed in by the whole Galvin legal stuff and didn’t have a strong leverage position, but I can’t see from any angle how...

In preparation for his move into the back row…

Yep. And Trent Robinson and Madge. Not a NRL premiership between either of them. Seriously though, I know Madge was going nowhere with the Tigers and probably had to be moved on, but firing a premiership winning coach to appoint a guy who was also a premiership winning coach but clearly past his...

Correct. The two most vulnerable times for muscle tears are when they are yet to be warmed up and when they are under fatigue. Good example is Bulla’s injury. The most likely times for this to occur were either in the pre game warm up or the 80th minute, in this case the latter. Chances are...

As ready as he will ever be. As in, not ever. Looks lost out there.

I I think Barnett is out for the season? If Cleary is not fit I would pick the young half from Dolphins. Or if they want experience and a kicking game you go back to Reynolds. Wonder if Daley does something dumb and goes with Luai at half and Burton at 5/8, or worse still Hynes at half.

Yep. An opposition tip sheet on Api would be a page long. Kick threat from dummy half. Run threat from dummy half. Look long, play short at the line threat. Wrap around threat. Opposition tip sheet on Robson would be one line: pass to first receiver. Sometimes goes to short side.

Agree. Solid first grader. But elite?? Not a chance.

Only reason he was picked was Bellyache in the NSW coaching staff.

If Connor Watson is in the best 17 players eligible for NSW selection I will eat my hat.

Anyone think NSW lack any sort of creativity out of dummy half? QLD don’t need to do any homework on Robson. Never runs. Just shovels to first receiver. Safe a great defensively, but will never have an opposition second guessing.

Is it any surprise? He refs like that in NRL each week. Blows the pea out of the whistle, over refs every game. Just can’t let the game flow and let the players decide who wins. If the hierarchy thought he would ref SOO any differently they were kidding themselves. Gets a lot of calls wrong too...

Agree. I don’t get this obsession with weakening a key spine position to manufacture a lock forward. Sure Yeo is a weapon for Penrith, but he’s a generational talent who can also go into front row rotation, whack a bloke in defence, make 20 impactful hit ups and 40 tackles a game. How many other...

Fletcher Sharpe is a fullback, which is where he will slot in when Ponga bails on the Knights. Tremendous running threat.

Reid is a moron.

It’s only one full game as a data point, but he got no where near the number of touches yesterday than he did in just about every game he played at WT. That probably just reflects that he will be slotted into the system at the Bulldogs, whereas at the Tigers he was the system.

I think it was a case of missed Horsborough but jagged May. I don’t believe it was a case of both in the frame but an either/or. Big Red is a good player, but we definitely did better with May

That’s the spirit…

John Davidson.