Fantastic to see Saukuru get a shot this weekend! I feel the club has done well with him and he hasn't been thrown in too early after a disrupted pre-season with surgery (playing both flegg and Ron Massey) and has now earnt a chance in Cup. Rip in!
Maybe a smokie for an NRL wing spot later in the season if he shows some form.
Not sure why some on here think Bula could be a centre? Physically doesn't match opposition centres.
Played Centre in the juniors and he is quite strong defensively. Has one of the highest tackle efficiencies of any fullback and very rarely gets dominated in tackles. He could play wing which would probably get him more involved but the way he takes on two on ones makes me more confident for him to play centre, has a great fend on him as seen against the titans and broncos against no slouches in Tino and Jesse. I’d be very comfortable with him against any centre in our comp.
I hear you, but can't recall Bula breaking a tackle, or have the speed to run around a player; and some of his passes have gone over the sideline. Don't recall the fend?
I agree except he’s not real good at catching bombs, watch any high ball in between he and his winger and he always says all yours to his winger. Prefers passing the ball for his wingers to take the tough carries so he can sit back and watch.
You seriously don’t remember him running around players at speed? Go watch the knights game in the second half at 29:53, or his Fiji games he was incredible. I mean all you have to go is go to any tiger game and check his stats and check his tackle breaks, unless you mean legitimately running through someone which 99% fullbacks can’t do. He fended Tino last year against the Titans and this year against Jesse when we versed the Broncos, also last year against the knights he fended Bradmen Best and scored while also having to get through Kalyn Ponga and Greg Marschew, he also stopped Greg at pace from scoring.
Don’t really remember that when he had 27 runs against the knights. I don’t think he has been as good this year but our attack has been pretty putrid. I also heard somewhere he has been battling an injury to his quad which can possibly take him out of the game. In the Dolphins game he had very few runs and clearly couldn’t run the ball well and there isn’t any real replacement for him in that position so I assume Benji had to tough him out.
They play on Sunday.
Doubt it I'd assume Sione Fainu comes back in as prop although if Seyfarth goes to second row who knows who is on an edge bench
watching this... left centre is his position.
I’d have to agree, I would like to see him shift to centre and get Luke in at fb when he is ready.
What a crap website the nswrl is can't even put players in their correct positions.
