Your side to take on the Bulldogs

[Wagga_Tiger]

1\. Thompson
2\. Nofoaluma
3\. Marsters
4\. Fonua
5\. MWZ
6\. Marshall
7\. Brooks
8\. Packer
9\. Liddle
10\. Matulino
11\. Lawrence
12\. Felise
13\. Eisenhuth

14\. Taylor
15\. Twal
16\. Aloiai
17\. MCK

 

[maxxy86]

I notice a couple of teams have Reynolds at 6 and no Marshall in the 17\. My question is who is going to play five-eighth when Reynolds runs out of gas?

This is WHY Gamble should be given a go….. He's not injured, he'd be keen as for a start and the guy has talent. It can't hurt!!!! New n improved Benchi Marshall to the you know where.

 

[Tiger_Steve]

I notice a couple of teams have Reynolds at 6 and no Marshall in the 17\. My question is who is going to play five-eighth when Reynolds runs out of gas?

This is WHY Gamble should be given a go….. He's not injured, he'd be keen as for a start and the guy has talent. It can't hurt!!!! New n improved Benchi Marshall to the you know where.

Marcy I’ve watched Gamble in ISP. He’s shown very little. His defence is very weak. He would not be an upgrade at the moment. Reynolds to 6, Marshall to 14 - if Reynolds is back that is.

 

[Droppy]

1\. Thompson
2\. Nofoaluma
3\. Marsters
4\. Fonua
5\. MWZ
6\. Marshall
7\. Brooks
8\. Packer
9\. Liddle
10\. Matulino
11\. Lawrence
12\. Felise
13\. Eisenhuth

14\. Taylor
15\. Twal
16\. Aloiai
17\. MCK

I like this line up but would have McIlwrick in for Liddle. Liddle still not fit to play 80 minutes. Would have Sue on bench for MCK.

 

[happy_tiger]

1 Thompson
2 Nofouluma
3 Marsters
4 Fonua
5 MWZ
6 Lolohea
7 Brooks
8 Packer
9 Liddle
10 Matulino
11 Lawrence
12 Eisenhuth
13 ET

14 Twal
15 Reynolds
16 Aloiai
17 Grant

 

[Russell]

1\. Thompson
2\. Nofoaluma
3\. Marsters
4\. Fonua
5\. MWZ
6\. Marshall
7\. Brooks
8\. Packer
9\. Liddle
10\. Matulino
11\. Lawrence
12\. Felise
13\. Eisenhuth

14\. Taylor
15\. Twal
16\. Aloiai
17\. MCK

I like this line up but would have McIlwrick in for Liddle. Liddle still not fit to play 80 minutes. Would have Sue on bench for MCK.

That's a poor reason - McIlwrick can't play 80 minutes either.

 

[Droppy]

1\. Thompson
2\. Nofoaluma
3\. Marsters
4\. Fonua
5\. MWZ
6\. Marshall
7\. Brooks
8\. Packer
9\. Liddle
10\. Matulino
11\. Lawrence
12\. Felise
13\. Eisenhuth

14\. Taylor
15\. Twal
16\. Aloiai
17\. MCK

I like this line up but would have McIlwrick in for Liddle. Liddle still not fit to play 80 minutes. Would have Sue on bench for MCK.

That's a poor reason - McIlwrick can't play 80 minutes either.

You obviously dont watch reseves. He plays 80 easily and can tackle for the whole game. Liddle is still tackle shy post injury.

 

[Russell]

1\. Thompson
2\. Nofoaluma
3\. Marsters
4\. Fonua
5\. MWZ
6\. Marshall
7\. Brooks
8\. Packer
9\. Liddle
10\. Matulino
11\. Lawrence
12\. Felise
13\. Eisenhuth

14\. Taylor
15\. Twal
16\. Aloiai
17\. MCK

I like this line up but would have McIlwrick in for Liddle. Liddle still not fit to play 80 minutes. Would have Sue on bench for MCK.

That's a poor reason - McIlwrick can't play 80 minutes either.

You obviously dont watch reseves. He plays 80 easily and can tackle for the whole game. Liddle is still tackle shy post injury.

Surely I do not have to explain to you that NRL is a lot quicker and demanding game than ISP. It is a big step up.

Same as NRL to SOO.

 

[Droppy]

I like this line up but would have McIlwrick in for Liddle. Liddle still not fit to play 80 minutes. Would have Sue on bench for MCK.

That's a poor reason - McIlwrick can't play 80 minutes either.

You obviously dont watch reseves. He plays 80 easily and can tackle for the whole game. Liddle is still tackle shy post injury.

Surely I do not have to explain to you that NRL is a lot quicker and demanding game than ISP. It is a big step up.

Same as NRL to SOO.

No doubt its a step up , but he did it easily last season and cant see why he couldnt do it again. Also a bigger body and made breaks .Liddle in my is a future hooker for the club long term but not ready at present. needs a full season to harden him up.

 

[Russell]

That's a poor reason - McIlwrick can't play 80 minutes either.

You obviously dont watch reseves. He plays 80 easily and can tackle for the whole game. Liddle is still tackle shy post injury.

Surely I do not have to explain to you that NRL is a lot quicker and demanding game than ISP. It is a big step up.

Same as NRL to SOO.

No doubt its a step up , but he did it easily last season and cant see why he couldnt do it again. Also a bigger body and made breaks .Liddle in my is a future hooker for the club long term but not ready at present. needs a full season to harden him up.

Understand what you are getting at.

However in no game (from memory) last year did McIlwrick play 80 minutes - he had dicky knees. At best in a couple of games he would have played 50 minutes. He does not make as many breaks as Liddle.

Agree with you Liddle is our long term DH.

 

[happy_tiger]

I think we need to accept that at the moment none of our hookers can get 80

If Liddle can get 60 and ET 20 we need to live with that for the moment at least

We don't have the absolute quality in the forwards to carry both Killa and Liddle and lose a bench forward replacement

If you do you have to drop either Twal ,Huth or Aloiai and that can't happen

 

[westTAHger]

my side, to play bulldogs:
keeps calm, sticks to the game plan,
kicks deep to the corners, gets repeat sets of six.
builds pressure, doesn't miss tackles,
does not push the pass when not needed , and wins.

 

[Magpie_Magic]

I think we need to accept that at the moment none of our hookers can get 80

If Liddle can get 60 and ET 20 we need to live with that for the moment at least

We don't have the absolute quality in the forwards to carry both Killa and Liddle and lose a bench forward replacement

If you do you have to drop either Twal ,Huth or Aloiai and that can't happen

I think the forward quality is there but too often they run without cover ie no support.
We cannot continue with two backorder in the centre's.
Really feel it is time for Marsters to shift to the back row.

 

[happy_tiger]

I think we need to accept that at the moment none of our hookers can get 80

If Liddle can get 60 and ET 20 we need to live with that for the moment at least

We don't have the absolute quality in the forwards to carry both Killa and Liddle and lose a bench forward replacement

If you do you have to drop either Twal ,Huth or Aloiai and that can't happen

I think the forward quality is there but too often they run without cover ie no support.
We cannot continue with two backorder in the centre's.
Really feel it is time for Marsters to shift to the back row.

We are getting rolled up the guts , even with our best forward pack v Penrith

Marsters is doing a great job in the centres and we have no one even close to his ability to bring in

Fonua has shown he has a lot of upside if his alarm clock works (or he doesn't get lost again )

And if someone suggests MCK , you are just swapping one back rower for another back rower

 

[Magpie_Magic]

I think we need to accept that at the moment none of our hookers can get 80

If Liddle can get 60 and ET 20 we need to live with that for the moment at least

We don't have the absolute quality in the forwards to carry both Killa and Liddle and lose a bench forward replacement

If you do you have to drop either Twal ,Huth or Aloiai and that can't happen

I think the forward quality is there but too often they run without cover ie no support.
We cannot continue with two backorder in the centre's.
Really feel it is time for Marsters to shift to the back row.

We are getting rolled up the guts , even with our best forward pack v Penrith

Marsters is doing a great job in the centres and we have no one even close to his ability to bring in

Fonua has shown he has a lot of upside if his alarm clock works (or he doesn't get lost again )

And if someone suggests MCK , you are just swapping one back rower for another back rower

Want to get Fanua and Kev in the centre's and maybe Marsters in the back row.
We need more second phase and Marsters good for that and we need support players who can run off that ie Kev Fanoua Tui Reynolds Thompson.

 

[EasyTiger]

New to the forum so first post, I dont understand why Aloiai hasn’t been there as of late because he’s been a gun for us bar a few errors. Since he was left out of the squad we seem to have lacked impact, especially when Fonua was dropped. Sick of Benji.

1\. Lolohea
2.Thompson
3.Marsters
4.Fonua
5.MWZ
6.Reynolds
7.Brooks
8.Packer
9.Liddle
10.Matulino
11.Lawrence
12.MCK
13.Taylor

14.McIlwrick
15.Aloiai
16.Twal
17.Eisenhuth

 

[happy_tiger]

New to the forum so first post, I dont understand why Aloiai hasn’t been there as of late because he’s been a gun for us bar a few errors. Since he was left out of the squad we seem to have lacked impact, especially when Fonua was dropped. Sick of Benji.

1\. Lolohea
2.Thompson
3.Marsters
4.Fonua
5.MWZ
6.Reynolds
7.Brooks
8.Packer
9.Liddle
10.Matulino
11.Lawrence
12.MCK
13.Taylor

14.McIlwrick
15.Aloiai
16.Twal
17.Eisenhuth

Welcome to the Forum Easy , lets hope we can find some form v the Dogs and step it up another level for the next 13 rounds

 

[The_Patriot]

I notice a couple of teams have Reynolds at 6 and no Marshall in the 17\. My question is who is going to play five-eighth when Reynolds runs out of gas?

My question is who has played 5/8 the last month or so. The way i see it the position has been non existent.

Anything would be an improvement.

Yeah I’ve seen your posts! I get that you’re not keen on Marshall. I personally think he’s not as bad as you’re stating but that’s not the point. If Marshall is not the answer, who is?
At present, neither Liddle nor Reynolds can play 80 do we need to carry 2 utilities on the bench if they both play - to me that is madness but still doesn’t solve the problem.

So alternatives are Lolohere at 6 with Reynolds playing 14, Liddle 9\. More problems here because none of these players is ready for 80 minutes.

Gamble at 6? Not an improvement in my opinion. Godinet? No way!

Lawrence could play 6 but that weakens our back row options and is not smart.

Taylor at 9 isn’t working so the only choice I see is Liddle at 9, Reynolds 6 and Marshall st 14 with Reynolds moving to 9 to spell Liddle. But this is not an immediate fix because Reynolds can’t play 80.

So for the next couple of weeks I really don’t know. Maybe Reynolds plays in reggies until he can play 80\. That’s means Marshall remains 6.

That’s why I say it’s easy to say drop Marshall but if you can find a better alternative I take my hat off to you ?

I agree with pretty much everything you've said here.

All I've been looking for is for Marshall to go and sit on the bench and have a think if he plays impatiently.

The who's and the how's I don't care about.

Just want to see some accountability.

 

[Geo]

We know what happened to the last Coach who put Benji on the Benchie…

 

[Cairnstigers]

1\. Thompson
2.Lolohea
3.Masters
4.Fonua
5.MWZ
6.Gamble (time to blood him)
7.Brooks
8.Packer
9.Mcllwrick
10.Matulino
11.MCK
12.Lawrence
13.Taylor

14.Liddle
15.Eisenhuth
16.Twal
17.JJ Felise (time for a run) ready or not
If he cant perform then we don't need him
If #1 or 6 gets injured then Lolohea moves
MCK Then to centre
Eisenhuth ro second row
Gamble needs a shot
Either he performs or he doesn't
Marshal needs a week or two off
Reynolds a week or two in ISP