WESTS Tigers Team V Panthers...

Agree Good team named apart from the bench. If Ava is fit I'd have him in. If a back goes down MCK or Lawerence goes in.
Hooker roatation ; ET for 10 mins
No JLJ
 
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and Suli

Suli has an ankle injury. One of those syndesmosis ones which take weeks to heal.

May require surgery in which case…Season over..

Ouch. Oh well, no point delaying it if that's the case. Surely a combination of MRI/X-Ray would determine if he needs an op.
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It's fairly disruptive surgery so it's not a particularly desirable option. If they're talking possible surgery then there must be some instability in the joint, but not so much that surgery is definitely required. They'll probably just try a course of physio and hope it heals up without the need for surgery.
 
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JLJ played 3 minutes against GC. Get rid of him and throw either Aloiai or Seumanufagai in there. An extra forward won't hurt against the Panthers whereas JLJ offers 3/5 of buggerall.
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Summed up perfectly. A bench spot for 3 minutes is a complete waste.
 
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It's interesting that Ava is obviously down the list of props at this point. I reckon he is a quality first grader. It shows how much better our depth is looking now and I think it will be better next year.

I want to see Aloiai in the team because I think he has more impact than all of our forwards when he is playing well.

You can't though really knock that team. Sue and Twal are pretty good bench prop forwards. Sue is inconsistent but he did the job last week. MCK is another inconsistent player who is full of mistakes but if he holds the ball and doesn't make mistakes he is a good edge player. JLJ ideally shouldn't be there but I get it. McIlwrick has troubles playing 80 minutes and having JLJ gives the coaching staff another option.

I wonder how we'd go without Woods. I honestly think we might even go better.
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I don't - not this year.
 
Think we should use JLJ on the bench this week as we'll need fresh legs on before half time as we know what the halfback for the opposition can do. If ET doesn't play start with CK and Alioia to the bench.
If we play disciplined footy,match their forwards and hold our edges we could go a long way to winning this one. We're a much more confident team ATM and I'm hoping that continues even if we don't get the chocolates.
 
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