Wests Tigers Team v Brisbane

[Demps]

I'm convinced this is some kind of a rotation thing in the forwards.

Mbye is dropped to the bench for AD but apart from that the rest makes no sense.

Definitely the vibe I'm getting also.

 

[hobbo1]

Hope players A & B don’t leave Nofo with a 1 on 13 😂

 

[Fraze23]

Seyfarth deserves to be filthy over this one and yet Mbye survives...bewildering. to say the least.

Or maybe Madge is protecting him ?

It's hard to believe that after his rant about needing to find men.

 

[ElleryHanley]

Mikaele has possibly the worst hands at the club (a long list I know) and he gets to wear the 13? Weird selection.
Congrats to Tuki And Pauga, keen to see Tuki get a crack.

You could not have picked a less likely 13 than Mikaele...has none of the skills required for a modern 13.

But he can play as an extra prop....like the game in 2013 required...

 

[Guest]

I can only hope he's planning to only use 16 players.

 

[izotope]

Mikaele at 13??

Surely we are just gonna be trucking it up the ruck and trying to win in the forwards
Seyfarth Blore, must be injuries or resting surely

edit: Mikaele 13 probably so we dont get steamrolled in the first 10 with field position

 

[momo_amp_medo]

What can I say ….. that second row …. Madge must be in love with those two.
Mikaele at lock is an experiment I suppose.
Two young forwards out of 17 should be playing ….. they need experience.
Overall disappointing selection.

 

[hobbo1]

Seyfarth deserves to be filthy over this one and yet Mbye survives...bewildering. to say the least.

Or maybe Madge is protecting him ?

It's hard to believe that after his rant about needing to find men.

It’s about as confusing as the covid vaccines

 

[BAGNF05]

Garner and Luciano = Protected species

 

[WT2K]

Garner and Luciano = Protected species

Good for us that have been betting against wt tho

 

[TheDaBoss]

What can I say ….. that second row …. Madge must be in love with those two.
Mikaele at lock is an experiment I suppose.
Two young forwards out of 17 should be playing ….. they need experience.
Overall disappointing selection.

No love for pauga or tuki?

Think everyone's death riding here atm is taking away the limelight of the debut for these 2 players

 

[BAGNF05]

Garner and Luciano = Protected species

Good for us that have been betting against wt tho

Can’t do it mate, everyone on here should be on the Forbes list though

 

[Shooter Mcgavin]

Confused as to why Madge sees the need for a bench utility this week as opposed to most the season. Anything to save Mbye I guess…

Would have preferred Seyfarth at lock, Blore second row. Ofa prop. LL/Mikaele/Simpkins/Twal bench. Therefore dropping Tamou and Mbye. AD(c) Brooks(VC)

 

[JC99]

Some positives and negatives here

Stefano deserves to start. I'm hoping Tamou plays the first 25-30 and Twal takes his spot for the rest of the game

Doueihi back at 6, thank god. Common sense prevails! Happy for Pauga to have a crack as well

Tuki debuting is cool, hope he does well, Mikaele at 13 is an interesting one. Certainly can have impact running the ball when he wants and has offloads but had a lot of errors and bad defensive reads in his game. In the current NRL where you want to start games on the front foot that could bite us

I don't like our bench at all. 3 middle forwards and Mbye who's not really any set position. Would much rather Blore or Seyfarth be there and Jake Simpkin there instead of Mbye

Really hoping Madge doesn't play Joffa on an edge, also really hoping he doesn't make Luc play 70+ minutes again hence why I would've preferred Blore on the bench. Maybe Tuki can get a run at 2RF but don't think he's mobile enough

Hope the rookies kill it and put the others to shame! I hope Madge hasn't killed the confidence of Blore and Seyfarth after both we're starting to play pretty decently I thought. I think Blore deserves to be in the team somewhere.

 

[AdelaideTiger]

A strange as our team looks, that Brisbane team is real bad. Even younger than us, with a terrible spine. Broncos by 24+

 

[Geo]

Too many defensive issues mate

Good one..

We would only have 4 players if everyone with defensive issues was dropped..

 

[TigerTone]

Congrats Tukimihia Simpkins and Junior Pauga , its gonna to be good to see some new faces in the side.
Good luck boys.

 

[happy_tiger]

Too many defensive issues mate

Good one..

We would only have 4 players if everyone with defensive issues was dropped..

If you can't get back in the defensive line , that's a massive problem ...we dumped Eisenhuth for this bloke ......

 

[jrtiger]

stoked to see the debutants named and Doueihi back to 6, but Seyfarth and Blore need to be in the 17 somewhere. seriously. hoping for this come 3pm Sunday

8 Utoikamanu
9 Liddle
10 Tamou
11 Garner
21 Blore
13 Mikaele

14 Ofahengaue
15 Twal
16 Simpkins
20 Seyfarth

 

[Tigerdave]

Ok great he split up Twal and Tamou, great to have AD back at 5/8, but dropping Seyfarth and Blore????? And Lucy shouldn't be starting either, Garner lucky to still be there.