Wests Tigers team for Round 1

Tim Sheens has announced the Wests Tigers side for Round 1.

Full team-lists for Wests Tigers, Wests Tigers NYC, BRET and Western Suburbs can be found on the [Team List](http://www.weststigersforum.com/gameday/team-lineup) page of this website and will updated throughout the week

1\. McKinnon 2\. Tuqiri 3\. Ayshford 4\. Lawrence 5\. Utai 6\. Marshall 7\. Lui 8\. Gibbs 9\. Farah ©
10\. Galloway
11\. Fulton
12\. Ellis
13\. Heighington

14\. Moltzen 15\. Dwyer 16\. Fifita 17\. Payten
 
Very happy with this team. i too am a bit confused with utai being selected but if Brown is injured as Beau apparently is then i am ok with it. time will tell with Utai. but as others have said he might just have a blinder against his old club. I AM PUMPED
 
what is it with Sheens in old washed up slow reserve grade wingers who cant catch bombs?? Idris and Barba will have a field day down that side of the field Monday night and the game thease days comes from lucky kicks to the wingers
 
Utai will fire. Well I hope he proves a lot of us wrong. He certainly has the potential.
Lets give him a couple proper games first. Could be a great signing
 
@matty tiepie said:
Very happy with this team. i too am a bit confused with utai being selected but if Brown is injured as Beau apparently is then i am ok with it. time will tell with Utai. but as others have said he might just have a blinder against his old club. I AM PUMPED
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Rather than bag Utai,I am more inclined to agree with this.
 
You'd think Utai was entitled to one game to show if he's up to it before you guys go all Fitzhenry on him.
Apparently not…
 
I am good with that. Would have had Woods over Fifita personally but Andrew has the runs on the board.

As for Utai Sheens obviously knows what he wants from his wingers and from the available options he feels Utai is the best available option. I think Latu is better but having a fellow who has played NRL in the past and is looking to prove himself can be very handy in the early rounds
 
@W3ST_T1G3R said:
Utai will fire. Well I hope he proves a lot of us wrong. He certainly has the potential.
Lets give him a couple proper games first. Could be a great signing
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Very sensible first up post…
 
@Yossarian said:
You'd think Utai was entitled to one game to show if he's up to it before you guys go all Fitzhenry on him.
Apparently not…
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we seen enough of him in reserve grade, he couldnt even make the bulldogs first grade team the last 3 years
bombs will be going crazy down his side all night, I also remember some very lazy games from him which showed his downfall to reserve grade
 
@Yossarian said:
You'd think Utai was entitled to one game to show if he's up to it before you guys go all Fitzhenry on him.
Apparently not…
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I know Beau can count himself lucky…...
 
Looks like a real good team.

I'd love to see Moltzen getting plenty of time at fullback and make the position his own.
 
@Golden said:
@Yossarian said:
You'd think Utai was entitled to one game to show if he's up to it before you guys go all Fitzhenry on him.
Apparently not…

we seen enough of him in reserve grade, he couldnt even make the bulldogs first grade team the last 3 years
bombs will be going crazy down his side all night, I also remember some very lazy games from him which showed his downfall to reserve grade
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Makes you wonder how he made the NZ test team hey? Look I'm not saying he doesn't have issues but I've seen very little of him in the last 3 or 4 years (he wasn't contracted with the Dogs last year btw) but give him one game. He had some bad knee problems towards the end of his time at the Dogs who had some pretty handy wingers ahead of him as well.

Just give him one game at least before you write him off.
 
@Yossarian said:
@W3ST_T1G3R said:
Utai will fire. Well I hope he proves a lot of us wrong. He certainly has the potential.
Lets give him a couple proper games first. Could be a great signing

Very sensible first up post…
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We all hope he has a blinder and I for one hope he does shove my words back down my own throat . I just feel that Brown deserved first choice if he is fit and can play multiple positions as well . I know that Utai has played a bit 2nd row but If i remember it was a bit of a disaster
 
@Yossarian said:
@Golden said:
@Yossarian said:
You'd think Utai was entitled to one game to show if he's up to it before you guys go all Fitzhenry on him.
Apparently not…

we seen enough of him in reserve grade, he couldnt even make the bulldogs first grade team the last 3 years
bombs will be going crazy down his side all night, I also remember some very lazy games from him which showed his downfall to reserve grade

Makes you wonder how he made the NZ test team hey? Look I'm not saying he doesn't have issues but I've seen very little of him in the last 3 or 4 years (he wasn't contracted with the Dogs last year btw) but give him one game. He had some bad knee problems towards the end of his time at the Dogs who had some pretty handy wingers ahead of him as well.

Just give him one game at least before you write him off.
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NZ test team? LOL Shannon Hegaty played for Australia too! but hey I hope he proves me wrong, but I can see im as our ONLY weakness in teh team this week and its a important one when you consider the game thease days has a lot of bombs and trys off kicks
 
Utai is there because Sheens is a massive fan of wingers who can make ground in the plays after a kick. He obviously thinks Utai will make more metres out of dummy half than Mitch.
 
@Yossarian said:
Utai is there because Sheens is a massive fan of wingers who can make ground in the plays after a kick. He obviously thinks Utai will make more metres out of dummy half than Mitch.
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well Fitzy used to run sideways from dummy half about 2 metres each time haha! lets not forget the great comeback by Moodie

well in his prime Utai used to do that, but since that injury he had he was never the same, I recall him being very lazy player, like standing around and not diving on the ball showing no urgency. like I said which led to his downfall if only we kept Pat Richards
 
@Golden said:
@Yossarian said:
Utai is there because Sheens is a massive fan of wingers who can make ground in the plays after a kick. He obviously thinks Utai will make more metres out of dummy half than Mitch.

well Fitzy used to run sideways from dummy half about 2 metres each time haha! lets not forget the great comeback by Moodie

well in his prime Utai used to do that, but since that injury he had he was never the same, I recall him being very lazy player, like standing around and not diving on the ball showing no urgency. like I said which led to his downfall if only we kept Pat Richards
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Yeah we get it - you hate Matt Utai…

I'm not saying he will make a lot of metres I'm just explaining why I think Sheens picked him.
 
**Matt Utai the "Daniel Fitzhenry" of 2011!!!!…**

Saw Mitch Brown at the recent fan day and he said he'd be 100% for RD1…

Watch the Doggies bomb Utai all night....

Apart from Utai I'm happy with the team..!
 
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