Round 1 Team

[Cairnstigers]

No way will a bench consist of 2 debutants and another kid whose only played 3 games.

Not many other options mate, we've got a very young pack.

Has Tim Mannah retired ?

 

[tony soprano]

1. Laurie
2. Nofa
3. Roberts
4. Leilua
5. Talau
6. Mbye
7. Brooks
8. Tamou
9. Simpkin
10. Twal
11. Leilua
12. Garner
13. Joffa
14. Liddle
15. Stefano
16. Seyfarth
17. Packer


Full strength side - replace Mbye with Doueihi, Packer with Musgrove and Seyfarth with Blore

Laurie looked good at 6

 

[tony soprano]

I don't know anything about Laurie but can he play wing? Would be good to give him first grade experience there, have speed on the flanks. Roberts/Noffa on the right and Leilua/Laurie on the Left could give us strike and speed out wide on both flanks.

He’s a ball player so he’s in the halves or 1.

 

[Needaname]

Laurie
Nofoaluma
B Leilua
Roberts
Talau
Mbye
Brooks
Tamou
Liddle
Twal
Tuilagi
L Lailua
Ofahengaue

Mikalele
Utoikamanu
Simpkins
Seyfarth

Can w3 confirm its Jake simpkins or tuki simpkins on bench

I would have Jake Simpkin on the bench after re;watching the trial, I would be close to having Simpkins as well.

Simpkin and Tuki should be on the bench. Seyfarth drops out. Garner will be starting I'd say, Tuilagi and Tuki may battle it out for a bench spot. Back coverage is a worry though, but hopefully that doesn't matter 1st game

Jake Simpkin looked better than Liddle think the 9 is still open for performance on next week trial

Liddle looked a class above.

Disagree

Takes me back to the days of watching Farah trying to steal the starting number 9 jersey off Cam Smith whilst playing as number 14 off the bench for Australia ....

 

[tony soprano]

On last nights performance Laurie goes to 6 for round 1 imo. I think Tuki and Stefano were really impressive.

I also don’t think Liddle is a shoe in, Simpkin looked good..

Stef was one I was really keeping and eye on and he was excellent. I thought Simpkin was better than Liddle in the game but Liddle still played well, Simpkin did well at lock too.

Nah , disagree there. The team lacked direction and were all over the place . Exactly how Simpkin was playing. Liddle looked like , he was just cruising, and the team relaxed around that.

Liddle was definitely just cruising because he only ran the ball properly twice and one of those times he lost us a few metres. Again he didn't play bad but Simpkin showed way more out there yesterday.

Running hookers are the way of the future, even Madge mentioned he liked what Simpkin did and Liddle looked good when he did run so I reckon that's what he wants.

Ok, but it affected the game plan. He ran on the last a couple of times . That’s not ok . I reserve judgement till next week , but I can see him getting a bollocking if he does that .

The ends of our sets in the opening half were terrible, we took the wrong option a number of times.

Did madden have a general field play kick ?

Was it Madden that put the kick in that Seyfarth scored from?
Memory not that great.


It was Tyler Field who put up that kick, best kick of the night and he got smashed.

It was Madden mate.

Madden did the seyfarth kick Tyler did the Cini try

 

[tony soprano]

Laurie
Nofoaluma
B Leilua
Roberts
Talau
Mbye
Brooks
Tamou
Liddle
Twal
Tuilagi
L Lailua
Ofahengaue

Mikalele
Utoikamanu
Simpkins
Seyfarth

Can w3 confirm its Jake simpkins or tuki simpkins on bench

I would have Jake Simpkin on the bench after re;watching the trial, I would be close to having Simpkins as well.

Simpkin and Tuki should be on the bench. Seyfarth drops out. Garner will be starting I'd say, Tuilagi and Tuki may battle it out for a bench spot. Back coverage is a worry though, but hopefully that doesn't matter 1st game

I wasn't overly impressed watching Simpkin at the ground but since watching the game on Kayo I have reevaluated that opinion and thought he was very good in the opening half.

Simpkins was very impressive and I also liked Tuilagi and Cooper. Some good signs from the young forwards.

Jake Simpkin is very direct

 

[Nelson]

1. Mbye
2. Nofoaluma
3. J. Leilua
4. Roberts
5. Talau
6. Laurie
7. Brooks
8. Tamou
9. Liddle
10. Twal
11. L. Leilua
12. Garner
13. Ofahengaue

14. Utoikamanu
15. Mikaele
16. Simpkins
17. Simpkin

 

[weststigerman]

Laurie
Nofoaluma
B Leilua
Roberts
Talau
Mbye
Brooks
Tamou
Liddle
Twal
Tuilagi
L Lailua
Ofahengaue

Mikalele
Utoikamanu
Simpkins
Seyfarth

Can w3 confirm its Jake simpkins or tuki simpkins on bench

I would have Jake Simpkin on the bench after re;watching the trial, I would be close to having Simpkins as well.

Simpkin and Tuki should be on the bench. Seyfarth drops out. Garner will be starting I'd say, Tuilagi and Tuki may battle it out for a bench spot. Back coverage is a worry though, but hopefully that doesn't matter 1st game

Tuilagi is a dev player, so he’s not eligible round 1.

 

[cochise]

Laurie
Nofoaluma
B Leilua
Roberts
Talau
Mbye
Brooks
Tamou
Liddle
Twal
Tuilagi
L Lailua
Ofahengaue

Mikalele
Utoikamanu
Simpkins
Seyfarth

Can w3 confirm its Jake simpkins or tuki simpkins on bench

I would have Jake Simpkin on the bench after re;watching the trial, I would be close to having Simpkins as well.

Simpkin and Tuki should be on the bench. Seyfarth drops out. Garner will be starting I'd say, Tuilagi and Tuki may battle it out for a bench spot. Back coverage is a worry though, but hopefully that doesn't matter 1st game

Jake Simpkin looked better than Liddle think the 9 is still open for performance on next week trial

Liddle looked a class above.

Disagree

That's alright you are allowed to disagree

 

[JC99]

Interesting to hear Brooks say in an interview that he won't be stuck on one side of the field this year and has been given license to roam around the field more. It'll be good to see both our halves link up in attack more

 

[cochise]

Interesting to hear Brooks say in an interview that he won't be stuck on one side of the field this year and has been given license to roam around the field more. It'll be good to see both our halves link up in attack more

I much prefer my halves playing both sides of the field. Hopefully Doueihi has been working on his passing.

 

[Russell]

Laurie
Nofoaluma
B Leilua
Roberts
Talau
Mbye
Brooks
Tamou
Liddle
Twal
Tuilagi
L Lailua
Ofahengaue

Mikalele
Utoikamanu
Simpkins
Seyfarth

Can w3 confirm its Jake simpkins or tuki simpkins on bench

I would have Jake Simpkin on the bench after re;watching the trial, I would be close to having Simpkins as well.

Simpkin and Tuki should be on the bench. Seyfarth drops out. Garner will be starting I'd say, Tuilagi and Tuki may battle it out for a bench spot. Back coverage is a worry though, but hopefully that doesn't matter 1st game

Jake Simpkin looked better than Liddle think the 9 is still open for performance on next week trial

He was definitely better at hogging the ball and running on the fifth tackle, I'll give you that.

 

[earl]

Laurie
Nofoaluma
B Leilua
Roberts
Talau
Mbye
Brooks
Tamou
Liddle
Twal
Tuilagi
L Lailua
Ofahengaue

Mikalele
Utoikamanu
Simpkins
Seyfarth

Can w3 confirm its Jake simpkins or tuki simpkins on bench

I would have Jake Simpkin on the bench after re;watching the trial, I would be close to having Simpkins as well.

Simpkin and Tuki should be on the bench. Seyfarth drops out. Garner will be starting I'd say, Tuilagi and Tuki may battle it out for a bench spot. Back coverage is a worry though, but hopefully that doesn't matter 1st game

Jake Simpkin looked better than Liddle think the 9 is still open for performance on next week trial

He was definitely better at hogging the ball and running on the fifth tackle, I'll give you that.

This was a big stuff up but he did it once. It was the old Robbie Farah I'll win the game play that doesn't come off. He was very good apart from that play though.

I think you have to pick both Liddle and Jake Simpkin in the NRL team.

 

[TigerWest]

Laurie
Nofoaluma
B Leilua
Roberts
Talau
Mbye
Brooks
Tamou
Liddle
Twal
Tuilagi
L Lailua
Ofahengaue

Mikalele
Utoikamanu
Simpkins
Seyfarth

Can w3 confirm its Jake simpkins or tuki simpkins on bench

I would have Jake Simpkin on the bench after re;watching the trial, I would be close to having Simpkins as well.

Simpkin and Tuki should be on the bench. Seyfarth drops out. Garner will be starting I'd say, Tuilagi and Tuki may battle it out for a bench spot. Back coverage is a worry though, but hopefully that doesn't matter 1st game

Jake Simpkin looked better than Liddle think the 9 is still open for performance on next week trial

He was definitely better at hogging the ball and running on the fifth tackle, I'll give you that.

This was a big stuff up but he did it once. It was the old Robbie Farah I'll win the game play that doesn't come off. He was very good apart from that play though.

I think you have to pick both Liddle and Jake Simpkin in the NRL team.

I think we need 4 forwards and no 2nd DM in the early rounds, so for me, We need to hope Liddle can hold his own in these games?

 

[Speed2burn]

Laurie
Nofoaluma
B Leilua
Roberts
Talau
Mbye
Brooks
Tamou
Liddle
Twal
Tuilagi
L Lailua
Ofahengaue

Mikalele
Utoikamanu
Simpkins
Seyfarth

Can w3 confirm its Jake simpkins or tuki simpkins on bench

I would have Jake Simpkin on the bench after re;watching the trial, I would be close to having Simpkins as well.

Simpkin and Tuki should be on the bench. Seyfarth drops out. Garner will be starting I'd say, Tuilagi and Tuki may battle it out for a bench spot. Back coverage is a worry though, but hopefully that doesn't matter 1st game

Jake Simpkin looked better than Liddle think the 9 is still open for performance on next week trial

He was definitely better at hogging the ball and running on the fifth tackle, I'll give you that.

Haha oh dear

Look I don’t think a reserve grade trial is going to have a lot of team structure going, it’s more than likely madge told them to treat it as a game of back yard footy because I did not see a clear game plan out there

What was clear to me was he was a level above the opposition & he’s only 19 years old

 

[tony soprano]

Laurie
Nofoaluma
B Leilua
Roberts
Talau
Mbye
Brooks
Tamou
Liddle
Twal
Tuilagi
L Lailua
Ofahengaue

Mikalele
Utoikamanu
Simpkins
Seyfarth

Can w3 confirm its Jake simpkins or tuki simpkins on bench

I would have Jake Simpkin on the bench after re;watching the trial, I would be close to having Simpkins as well.

Simpkin and Tuki should be on the bench. Seyfarth drops out. Garner will be starting I'd say, Tuilagi and Tuki may battle it out for a bench spot. Back coverage is a worry though, but hopefully that doesn't matter 1st game

Jake Simpkin looked better than Liddle think the 9 is still open for performance on next week trial

He was definitely better at hogging the ball and running on the fifth tackle, I'll give you that.

This was a big stuff up but he did it once. It was the old Robbie Farah I'll win the game play that doesn't come off. He was very good apart from that play though.

I think you have to pick both Liddle and Jake Simpkin in the NRL team.

Not really his half was tacked on the 4th and there was no formation sometimes u take the tackle

 

[tony soprano]

Laurie
Nofoaluma
B Leilua
Roberts
Talau
Mbye
Brooks
Tamou
Liddle
Twal
Tuilagi
L Lailua
Ofahengaue

Mikalele
Utoikamanu
Simpkins
Seyfarth

Can w3 confirm its Jake simpkins or tuki simpkins on bench

I would have Jake Simpkin on the bench after re;watching the trial, I would be close to having Simpkins as well.

Simpkin and Tuki should be on the bench. Seyfarth drops out. Garner will be starting I'd say, Tuilagi and Tuki may battle it out for a bench spot. Back coverage is a worry though, but hopefully that doesn't matter 1st game

Jake Simpkin looked better than Liddle think the 9 is still open for performance on next week trial

He was definitely better at hogging the ball and running on the fifth tackle, I'll give you that.

This was a big stuff up but he did it once. It was the old Robbie Farah I'll win the game play that doesn't come off. He was very good apart from that play though.

I think you have to pick both Liddle and Jake Simpkin in the NRL team.

I think we need 4 forwards and no 2nd DM in the early rounds, so for me, We need to hope Liddle can hold his own in these games?

Good luck

 

[earl]

Laurie
Nofoaluma
B Leilua
Roberts
Talau
Mbye
Brooks
Tamou
Liddle
Twal
Tuilagi
L Lailua
Ofahengaue

Mikalele
Utoikamanu
Simpkins
Seyfarth

Can w3 confirm its Jake simpkins or tuki simpkins on bench

I would have Jake Simpkin on the bench after re;watching the trial, I would be close to having Simpkins as well.

Simpkin and Tuki should be on the bench. Seyfarth drops out. Garner will be starting I'd say, Tuilagi and Tuki may battle it out for a bench spot. Back coverage is a worry though, but hopefully that doesn't matter 1st game

Jake Simpkin looked better than Liddle think the 9 is still open for performance on next week trial

He was definitely better at hogging the ball and running on the fifth tackle, I'll give you that.

This was a big stuff up but he did it once. It was the old Robbie Farah I'll win the game play that doesn't come off. He was very good apart from that play though.

I think you have to pick both Liddle and Jake Simpkin in the NRL team.

Not really his half was tacked on the 4th and there was no formation sometimes u take the tackle

I thought it was really really poor. His overall game was high quality. I reckon Harry Grant is a great little player but I think we have two pretty good options at the club right now.

 

[Spartan117]

Praying for No injuries this week in the trial against Manly.

We need a lot of things to go well in 2021

Blore, Musgrave and AD out in round 1 against the Raiders is gonna really test our resolve straight away.

 

[Harvey]

Apparently Tommy Talau has torn his hamstring. Not far off a Zac Cini debut.

Edit: Ignore. My Tigers mate text me about Tommy T, and I assumed us. He was talking about Manly

:blush: :grinning: :grinning: