Pack size

[Tommy Magpie]

How big is BMM? He is one lump of a lad.
Throw in Galloway, Fifita, Woods, Ellis and we have some good size in the forwards.

How would our pack rank for largest to smallest?

Fifita
BMM
Keef
Gibbs
etc
etc
??
Fulton
Farah

 

[Guest]

I suspect the heaviest to lightest in the forwards would go something like this:

Fifita
Murdoch-Masila
Galloway
Woods
Payten
Ellis
Gibbs
Dwyer
Heighington
Fulton
Farah

The pack has a good blend of size, skill and mobility about it which is the main thing.

 

[Tommy Magpie]

Great for the forwards to get the momentum going and give Benji, Lui and Farah some room to move.

Woods particularly impressive.

 

[hybrid_tiger]

I think BMM would be heavier than Fifita given Fifita lost alot of weight in the off season. BMM is massive.

 

[happy_tiger]

BMM
Fifita
KEEFY
Payten
Woods
Ellis
Dwyer
Gibbs
Rhino
Fulton

 

[Guest]

I think BMM would be heavier than Fifita given Fifita lost alot of weight in the off season. BMM is massive.

Fifita is 8cm taller than him, but you're right, Murdoch is one broad shouldered unit though.

 

[Spartan117]

We need these big boys to use their God given size.

 

[barra]

We need these big boys to use their God given size.

Very true.

It only takes a couple of hard runners to properly instill that ethos into a pack, but who is going to supply that inspiration? Blair?!
At the moment it's only there when the pack is going well, it needs to be there when we are on the back foot, coming out of our end etc.

 

[happy_tiger]

We need these big boys to use their God given size.

Very true.

It only takes a couple of hard runners to properly instill that ethos into a pack, but who is going to supply that inspiration? Blair?!
At the moment it's only there when the pack is going well, it needs to be there when we are on the back foot, coming out of our end etc.

Well if our kicking game can be consistantly as good as it was on Sunday it will put less pressure on our forwards to dig us deep out of our own territory as we will have better field position to start our sets of six from .

 

[magpie_mania]

We need these big boys to use their God given size.

Very true.

It only takes a couple of hard runners to properly instill that ethos into a pack, but who is going to supply that inspiration? Blair?!
At the moment it's only there when the pack is going well, it needs to be there when we are on the back foot, coming out of our end etc.

I think aaron woods could safely become that person.He seems to remind me of a young webcke.

 

[barra]

That's true HT.

If we could see that kicking game every week it would be different but it seems that the pack already looks for someone/something else to help them out of trouble. In the past they have looked for our attack to turn things around for the team, but it is a dangerous mindset because that can't happen every set and then you get bashed in your own end with backs making up the numbers (which would be OK if they all ran like Utai but they don't) and standing start hit-ups. We've all seen that happen too often.

MM you could be right, Woods looks the goods, but we need an aggressive big boy to back him up, fingers crossed…

 

[Wildcat777]

Keith Galloway 195 cm 107 kg
Andrew Fifita 194 cm 114 kg
Aaron Woods 194 cm 105 kg
Junior Moors 192 cm 113 kg
Simon Dwyer 192 cm 101 kg
Lote Tuqiri 191 cm -
Gareth Ellis 189 cm 106 kg
Todd Payten 188 cm 110 kg
Bryce Gibbs 188 cm 104 kg
Chris Heighington 187 cm 98 kg
Liam Fulton 186 cm 89 kg
Ben Murdoch-Masila 186 cm 112 kg
Jason Schirnack 185 cm 92 kg
Alan Schirnack 185 cm 102 kg
Robbie Farah 179 cm 88 kg

Matt Groat 190 cm 110 kg
Neil Begovich 190 cm 103 kg
Junior Roqica 184 cm 104 kg
Curtis Sironen 193 cm 93 kg
Ratu Tagive 194 cm 99 kg
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FYI

 

[softlaw]

I think aaron woods could safely become that person.He seems to remind me of a young webcke.

He's the one we really have to keep. He will be one of the best (50centsalitre type player) and is already very very good.

 

[happy_tiger]

Keith Galloway 195 cm 107 kg
Andrew Fifita 194 cm 114 kg
Aaron Woods 194 cm 105 kg
Junior Moors 192 cm 113 kg
Simon Dwyer 192 cm 101 kg
Lote Tuqiri 191 cm -
Gareth Ellis 189 cm 106 kg
Todd Payten 188 cm 110 kg
Bryce Gibbs 188 cm 104 kg
Chris Heighington 187 cm 98 kg
Liam Fulton 186 cm 89 kg
Ben Murdoch-Masila 186 cm 112 kg
Jason Schirnack 185 cm 92 kg
Alan Schirnack 185 cm 102 kg
Robbie Farah 179 cm 88 kg

Matt Groat 190 cm 110 kg
Neil Begovich 190 cm 103 kg
Junior Roqica 184 cm 104 kg
Curtis Sironen 193 cm 93 kg
Ratu Tagive 194 cm 99 kg
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FYI

Dwyer i reckon has put on 5kg (of muscle) since those weights were calculated He would have to be 105 kg easy now .

 

[Guest]

Keith Galloway 195 cm 107 kg
Andrew Fifita 194 cm 114 kg
Aaron Woods 194 cm 105 kg
Junior Moors 192 cm 113 kg
Simon Dwyer 192 cm 101 kg
Lote Tuqiri 191 cm -
Gareth Ellis 189 cm 106 kg
Todd Payten 188 cm 110 kg
Bryce Gibbs 188 cm 104 kg
Chris Heighington 187 cm 98 kg
Liam Fulton 186 cm 89 kg
Ben Murdoch-Masila 186 cm 112 kg
Jason Schirnack 185 cm 92 kg
Alan Schirnack 185 cm 102 kg
Robbie Farah 179 cm 88 kg

Matt Groat 190 cm 110 kg
Neil Begovich 190 cm 103 kg
Junior Roqica 184 cm 104 kg
Curtis Sironen 193 cm 93 kg
Ratu Tagive 194 cm 99 kg
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FYI

Dwyer i reckon has put on 5kg (of muscle) since those weights were calculated He would have to be 105 kg easy now .

Those weights were taken during the pre-season. A lot of them have fluctuated as in Fifita's case, he is 109kg, not 114kg.

 

[claws]

We need these big boys to use their God given brains. Brains over brawn any day. We need smart footballers.