Fonua requires surgery

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Will Marsters be available next game because he’s been selected for the kiwis?
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We play on the Sunday in a must win game so I assume he would play as we cant afford to rest players especially Masters
 
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Forget signing Farah, we need some outside backs. We have:
Thompson
Nofa (injured)
Mahe (injured)
MWZ (hopeless)
Tui (lazy)
Kev
Marsters
Mbye

One of the Robbie articles was saying we have 1 spot left in our top30\. Surely there are more spots than that?
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Accurate and disappointing 😂
 
Maybe time to blood some young blokes….If possible.

My depleted team for the Titans clash would have to look something like this.
Mbye
Thompson
Marsters
Lawrence
Naqaima
Reynolds
Brooks
Mataluino
Liddle
Eisenhuth
Rochow
Taylor
Aloiai

Marshall
Twal
Packer
Cheekam

Please don't shoot me down its just an early assessment of availability and realistic outcomes.
I think packer could use break he seems to become less effective every week, I'm not bagging Russel i just think he could come on and give that injection of agression we sometimes lose throughout a half.

Also i think Marshall should be on the bench and just be ready to come in to any role that's not firing for us, i feel Marshall plays his best when he's not playing 80.
Anyway cant get much worse than the last month of footy so lets hope the tide turns somewhat and the boys can start to give us something to cheer about.
 
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Maybe time to blood some young blokes….If possible.

My depleted team for the Titans clash would have to look something like this.
Mbye
Thompson
Marsters
Lawrence
Naqaima
Reynolds
Brooks
Mataluino
Liddle
Eisenhuth
Rochow
Taylor
Aloiai

Marshall
Twal
Packer
Cheekam

Please don't shoot me down its just an early assessment of availability and realistic outcomes.
I think packer could use break he seems to become less effective every week, I'm not bagging Russel i just think he could come on and give that injection of agression we sometimes lose throughout a half.

Also i think Marshall should be on the bench and just be ready to come in to any role that's not firing for us, i feel Marshall plays his best when he's not playing 80.
Anyway cant get much worse than the last month of footy so lets hope the tide turns somewhat and the boys can start to give us something to cheer about.
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Lawrence far too slow for centre and would be a waste not having him in the second row where he is playing his best football in years.
 
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Would love someone who can score tries like Anthony Don.
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Funny thing about Anthony Don, he looks uncoordinated but can play alright, and as you say, find the line.

We have blokes who look ok but are actually uncoordinated.
 
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Can I please give a special mention to MWZ yesterday, for perhaps the most uncoordinated special-needs handicapped play I've seen from a Tiger all season.

Brooks with a horrendous bomb, granted, but MWZ turns his back, fumbles the ball backwards, STEPS ON IT, rolls his ankle, the Raiders pick it up, he dives to effect a tackle (missed by the way) and takes out Fonua, breaking his arm.

Very very special ability that, to both stuff up and put a line through one of our better attacking players, all in one effort. I called it straight away, Fonua broken arm, soon as he got up holding it. Thanks Malakai you class A Tardo.
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I'm struggling to think of a winger worse than MWZ currently playing in the NRL.
 
Fonua isn't as well rounded as a player as you'd like I reckon.

MWZ is OK but rusty as.
Need more height in the back line imo.
 
This should actually help us change our game plan and get more forwards involved in our sets instead of being so reliant on our backs
 
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This should actually help us change our game plan and get more forwards involved in our sets instead of being so reliant on our backs
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That should have happened when we had Tui, Thompson & Kev as our back 3, but the forward did not step up. They generally can't take the early hit-ups, they are still walking back onside with their hands on hips up to about tackle 4.
 
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Would love someone who can score tries like Anthony Don.

Funny thing about Anthony Don, he looks uncoordinated but can play alright, and as you say, find the line.

We have blokes who look ok but are actually uncoordinated.
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Haha ..so true !
 
Put Gamble in his spot, he's a runner anyway so just give him early ball and let him run or setup his winger, something Fonua can't do.
 
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Put Gamble in his spot, he's a runner anyway so just give him early ball and let him run or setup his winger, something Fonua can't do.
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Might work, particularly if this was NFL where you could replace him whenever we need to defend.
 
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Put Gamble in his spot, he's a runner anyway so just give him early ball and let him run or setup his winger, something Fonua can't do.
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Played the rest of the game at centre when Fonua went down
 
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We are going to struggle for backs, barely have anyone we can call up. Tui might have to come onto the wing.
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Not necessarily

1\. Mbye
2\. Thompson
3\. Kev
4\. Marsters
5\. MWZ/Noffa

Would be nice if that early season mentality of giving up limbs for the opportunity made a comeback.
 
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