Andrew Fifita

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OK….....Is this how it works....

Galloway, Gibbs, and Payten start...Our three best and most experienced front rowers.....

Keith rips in then Barb comes on Payten shifts to the front row.....then bare with me...Payten gets a rest ...Liam comes on Barb plays psudo front row for a bit....then goes off ....Keithy goes back on...All the while our prime backrowers Ellis and Heighington play the full 40 along with Gibbs...

Then in the second half....Gibbo gets a rest...Fifita gets a stint...Galloway swaps with Payto and the fact of the matter is we always have 2 of our best front rowers on the field at the 1 time...

Fifita is pure impact...the trends of the last 2 games have been such that it better to have our best defenders on the field...I hope that Sheens gets the opportunity to unleash Fifita against the Dragons cause he could do some damage...
 
Isn't it that Payten and Galloway start at prop. Galloway gets a rest, Fults comes on and goes to second row whilst Gibbs moves to front row. Then, Payten gets a rest Dwyer comes on. Then the prop rotation of Payten, Gibbs and Galloway. Then, in the last 10-15 minutes when we are infront Sheens tries to finish the game off by putting Fifita the X- Factor in but we don't get any good field position in the last 10-15 minutes and have to do some goal line defence.

This means Fifita is gone to waste!! So, hopefully he is unleashed earlier on in the second half!!
 
@senexx said:
Would you start Fifita against the Dragons? Against his Uncle Johnny's side?
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There's no way I'd be starting him, but i would be using him at the backend of the first half.
 
@willow said:
There's no way I'd be starting him, but i would be using him at the backend of the first half.
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Need to break that line of theirs early and get a few under our belt (easier said than done) and bring him on fresh to keep the strain on.
Unfortunately as soon as he came on momentum swung their way, probably due to the tackle count being restarted unluckily by result of him. I am confident that he will make more of an impact if brought in during the first half
 
@Guy said:
@willow said:
There's no way I'd be starting him, but i would be using him at the backend of the first half.

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Need to break that line of theirs early and get a few under our belt (easier said than done) and bring him on fresh to keep the strain on.
Unfortunately as soon as he came on momentum swung their way, probably due to the tackle count being restarted unluckily by result of him. I am confident that he will make more of an impact if brought in during the first half
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The fetus needs to b injected in the 25-30 minute. The problem is for a player like him, putting him in late in the second half puts way to much pressure on him! Bring him on early for a stint,then take him off 10 into the second half, and bring him back on with 10 to go. Then you will see how good he will go!!!!!

He is a gun! and with saint borings up next week we need an impact player to tear holes in their good defence, he is the man for the job he will also suck their defenders in which we need!

Bring on the fetus!!!!
 
@lathami said:
@Guy said:
@willow said:
There's no way I'd be starting him, but i would be using him at the backend of the first half.

X2
Need to break that line of theirs early and get a few under our belt (easier said than done) and bring him on fresh to keep the strain on.
Unfortunately as soon as he came on momentum swung their way, probably due to the tackle count being restarted unluckily by result of him. I am confident that he will make more of an impact if brought in during the first half

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The fetus needs to b injected in the 25-30 minute. The problem is for a player like him, putting him in late in the second half puts way to much pressure on him! Bring him on early for a stint,then take him off 10 into the second half, and bring him back on with 10 to go. Then you will see how good he will go!!!!!

He is a gun! and with saint borings up next week we need an impact player to tear holes in their good defence, he is the man for the job he will also suck their defenders in which we need!

Bring on the fetus!!!!
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heard that sheens has been holding him back becuase he has been talking with other clubs. i cant tell you that this is gospel, just sharing what i heard from a die hard tigers fan
 
i feel sheens see's him defensively as a weakness, and since we've been ahead (for the last 2 games) anyway he doesnt wanna bring him on unless we need points.

just my observations id like to see some more of him though!!
 
The last two games have been against sides who's strength is their attack. Fifita's defence is his weakness. ie. he got given minimal game time.
The Dragons strength is their defence not their attack.
I'm hoping we see a fair bit more of Fifita because the Dragons won;t be testing his defence as much so Sheens' can leave him on the field for longer to use his strength in attack.
 
Fifita should be default on the field between 30mins and 50mins and brought back on with 10 to go if we are trailing by a small margin and look a hope.
 
I noted that we made the first replacement at the 15 minute mark and was it Fulton that came on, I scratched down some notes as I felt that after the marathon game the week before that Sheens would take the wrong option and replace players sooner than necessary, put the lightweights on first and the heavyweights for the knockout Shifty!.
 
'It's about being yourself at football,' says livewire tyro Fifita Chris Barrett
September 22, 2010
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He's not in the semi-final team yet, but look out if he makes it, writes Chris Barrett.

Andrew Fifita likes attention. The lanes carved in his hair before he rolled up to the Dally M awards red carpet with his girlfriend Nikkita are testament to that.

So is the outrageous mohawk he sported against Parramatta last month, following a two-try haul the week before. And the fact that, at the Wests Tigers open media session this week, the rookie forward wandered around Concord Oval with the comfort of a senior player, happily accepting interview requests from any member of the NRL fourth estate. What Fifita, 21, is no doubt craving, though, is a little more attention from his coach, Tim Sheens. He has appeared regularly and starred on occasion in his debut first-grade season, but has played only a combined 23 minutes in the Tigers' finals run, against the Sydney Roosters and Canberra.

Now, when the Tigers face the minor premiers St George Illawarra in the grand-final qualifying blockbuster at ANZ Stadium on Saturday night, he may not get a start. Sheens named his line-up yesterday, playing down injury concerns over halfback Robert Lui, hooker and captain Robbie Farah (both corked quads), Gareth Ellis (back) and Bryce Gibbs (toe) by listing them all.

Fifita, though, had to settle for a place at the bottom of an extended interchange bench of six, with the coach including Keebra Park High product Ben Murdoch-Masila, who has played a solitary NRL game. Murdoch-Masila made his first-grade debut in the Tigers' heartbreaking golden-point defeat to the Roosters in week one of the play-offs, playing 35 minutes. Fifita, by comparison, had to wait until eight minutes before full-time of normal time to even get on, having jogged relentlessly along the touchline in order to catch the coach's eye.

'' _trying to tell him I'm ready,'' Fifita said. ''Maybe it's because it's my first year in NRL. Bryce Gibbs came back [from injury] and I knew … it was lucky for me to even be in the team. I don't care if I got one minute on the field.\
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''My trainers kept going 'keep warm, keep warm, keep warm' and then Tim just says 'go on'. There was about eight minutes to go and I was like 'Yeah, it's about time, let's go'. I was just pumped.''\
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Sheens has a low patience threshold for showboating, particularly by the unproven. Several times this year he has refused to compliment Fifita on personal performances after being prompted by journalists, imploring the Blacktown tyro instead to ''keep his head down''.\
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''All Sheensy has said is 'You put that kind of stuff in your hair, you're like a human target going around','' Fifita said, referring to the mohawk. ''All he kept on saying was 'back it up, back it up' the whole week. I said 'Yeah, fair enough we will'. At the end of the day it's me … if they want to take me for me. It's about being yourself at football. That's how I grew up - even throughout the [under] 20s last year had blond hair.''\
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The veteran coach, though, clearly rates Fifita (he has played 21 games) and may still pick him for Saturday. So how does Fifita, a first-year player, feel about being one game away from an NRL grand final?\
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''Oh, f***! … oh, sorry,'' he said._
 
Wow….fancy that.....Who would of thought having Gibbs, Payten and Galloway 'fit' and in the team would affect Fifita's minutes....
 
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