Russell Packer

[teddy23]

Been pushing for this man to be selected and I’m so glad he was, absolutely tore that pack to shreds and added much needed punch - stepped up big time tonight!

Congrats big fella, hopefully you can keep your spot in the team and prove the doubters wrong!

 

[Tigerdave]

it was great to see, I was concerned, but it looks like he's back

 

[hobbo1]

The old dog was great in his first stint tonight ...

 

[Snake]

He will keep his spot there will be a bench spot opening up next week.

 

[happy_tiger]

One of our best three easily ...real hard in the defence which shows he was mentally up

 

[old_man_tiger]

Played very well

 

[momo_amp_medo]

Meeee toooo. Welcome back. We need this guy if forward pack is going to dominate games like tonight.

 

[Spacecub]

Want to see him do it against quality opposition

 

[TrueTiger]

He showed leadership tonight and the young guys responded,it was great to see Russ get back to his true playing style...

 

[PJ_]

Yeah kudos. Was very strong. Aioli was spectacular as well

 

[gallagher]

Want to see him do it against quality opposition

He'll get the opp next week.

 

[TheDaBoss]

10x better and fitter than McQueen was

 

[JC99]

That’s the packer we wanted to see. Massive if he can keep that up while we have Musgrove out

 

[boonboon]

He was injury free and fit with it and he played great tonight. He always has been a good defender but what I really like was he ran hard and often and he also had a heap of support runs following Huth and Aloia too. Loved it

 

[gato]

Played great for us tonight. Big minutes, ran strong, tore it up in defence and could've done even more damage with offloads if he had support on his runs

 

[tigerbenji]

Was very good from the start, great to see.

 

[softlaw]

Also the number of decoy runs he ran at full speed was really important to distract the (admittedly rubbish) defence.
And he did a lot of talking and geeing the group up. As a forward leadership team he and JoshA could be a really good pair.

 

[JC99]

Loved his energy out there. The playing group seem to love Russ out there

 

[LeichhardtTiger]

I think he ran for around 125 metres - more in one game than the past two years!

 

[teddy23]

I think he ran for around 125 metres - more in one game than the past two years!

15 runs for 150 meters