TEAM LIST Round 11 vs Manly

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Adam Doobie said:
Cronk rarely tips us. I feel like if he has any reason to be against us he will run with it.

My feeling is that we looked decent in attack in the last 20 minutes against Melbourne. Jock and Luai basically had no reps together, it took them a while to gel. Having Terrell back will stop our middle leaking, plus Latu will provide more physicality than Hope did.

Another point - Luai had Sione in space a number of times, if it was Samuela in his place we probably score another 1 or 2 tries. Hopefully these new combinations, albeit with only one game under their belt, will come to fruition.

My fear though, as many have already written here, is the Herbert vs Koula match-up. Koula is a scary player. He is both lightning fast and has good footy nous to put his winger away. The other scary match-up is Fogarty's kicking game vs our back three. Mason didn't really get tested last week, I suspect they will put more high-ball pressure on him than Melbourne did. Weirdly though I felt more assured with Mason than Turuva at fullback.
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I noticed that with luai and sione too. Did you play league growing up?
 
Have to own the ruck & the two spots either side of it in defence. No more trotting back into the line with the back turned.

Manly have their issues at #9 right now, which could be our biggest benefit- they might struggle to exploit our lazier defenders.

Winning the ruck goes a long way to winning this game. And winning this game with the bye to follow & troops (Api..) coming back is great for getting some momentum back leading into SOO period.

Our forwards SHOULD match up with theirs. I'd have Twal & Seyfarth stuck on Olakau'atu as long as they can be to nullify his impact.

I'd look for Royce to have a bounce back game this week too.
 
The Chad said:
Have to own the ruck & the two spots either side of it in defence. No more trotting back into the line with the back turned.

Manly have their issues at #9 right now, which could be our biggest benefit- they might struggle to exploit our lazier defenders.

Winning the ruck goes a long way to winning this game. And winning this game with the bye to follow & troops (Api..) coming back is great for getting some momentum back leading into SOO period.

Our forwards SHOULD match up with theirs. I'd have Twal & Seyfarth stuck on Olakau'atu as long as they can be to nullify his impact.

I'd look for Royce to have a bounce back game this week too.
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I was just about to write something similar to this. I feel alot more confident with latu in the #9 both in attack and defence.
 
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