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[Magpies1969]

Appears Marshall will be able to play from Media reports.

1\. Thompson
2\. Nofo
3\. Marsters
4\. Kevvie
5\. MWZ
6\. Marshall
7\. Brooks

8\. Packer
9\. Killer
10\. Matalino
11\. Lawrence
12\. MCK
13\. Rochow

14.Twal
15.Aloiai
16\. The Huth
17\. Liddle (if media reports are correct he is available)

18\. Lolo or Gamble

 

[kh_canada]

Assuming Benji, Liddle, Lolo are good to go.

1\. Thompson
2\. Nofo
3\. Marsters
4\. Kev
5\. MWZ

6\. Marshall
7\. Brooks

8\. Packer
9\. McIlwrick
10\. Matalino
11\. Lawrence
12\. Rochow
13\. Huth

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

18\. Lolo - Can't see why Thompson should lose his spot. I would play Lolo in ISP especially if there are other reasons for Lolo being dropped .

 

[Strider]

Something to consider is Tui can kick. He would have kicked that penalty last week. Something to consider if we aren't scoring many points.

 

[colmcd]

Something to consider is Tui can kick. He would have kicked that penalty last week. Something to consider if we aren't scoring many points.

Something to consider, we focused on Defense.
This has meant, against 3 top 4 sides were WWL and close too WWW with many injuries already.

The Titans focused on attack, and are where we were last year.
Our attack will come good. We have Marshall, Brooks, Tui and Reynolds. Probably our best attacking halves since 2005 on paper!
Remember we faced three of the toughest defenders in the league. Now we face an out of form Parramatta, with M Moses who made 0 meters and did 0 tackles as well as missing 6 tackles! :mrgreen:
If he alone plays the same we will pile on 20!

 

[balmain boy]

Funny people talking about Aloiai. He's played about 20 mins this season, and hasn't done anything. Good or bad. Talking about him and form in the same sentence doesn't work, fitness - perhaps.

We also have one of our least creative spines in our history.

There will be no changes for the forseeable future. No one in ISP has put their hand up to push selection

 

[Tweed_Tiger]

https://twitter.com/WestsTigers/status/979147536358244353

Good signs in the pictures with Benji kicking off and Tui and Liddle running around.

 

[marzie]

1\. Tui Lolohea
2\. David Nofoaluma
3\. Esan Marsters
4\. MWZ
5\. Corey Thompson
6\. Benji Marshall
7\. Luke Brooks
8\. Russell Packer
9\. Pita Godinet
10\. Ben Matulino
11\. Chris Lawrence
12\. Robbie Rochow
13\. Matt Eisenhuth

14\. Jacob Liddle
15\. Alex Twal
16\. Josh Aloiai
17\. MCK

 

[TigerSJ]

At this point in time, the way the incumbent players are working and playing well as a team, I can't see how any player returning from injury would step in and take a spot without at least working through the reserve grade - even if it's just to test their injury and for match fitness. In previous years we were desperate to rush guys back into the team but not so much now. This goes for Liddle, Tui and probably Reynolds (depending on how Benji copes).

 

[Tiger_Steve]

1\. Tui Lolohea
2\. David Nofoaluma
3\. Esan Marsters
4\. MWZ
5\. Corey Thompson
6\. Benji Marshall
7\. Luke Brooks
8\. Russell Packer
9\. Pita Godinet
10\. Ben Matulino
11\. Chris Lawrence
12\. Robbie Rochow
13\. Matt Eisenhuth

14\. Jacob Liddle
15\. Alex Twal
16\. Josh Aloiai
17\. MCK

Almost!! I think same except Naiqama for MWZ and McIlwrick for Godinet.

 

[Nucky_Thompson]

Funny people talking about Aloiai. He's played about 20 mins this season, and hasn't done anything. Good or bad. Talking about him and form in the same sentence doesn't work, fitness - perhaps.

We also have one of our least creative spines in our history.

There will be no changes for the forseeable future. No one in ISP has put their hand up to push selection

Based on his form its questionable that he walk straight in to chee cam spot.

 

[Nucky_Thompson]

Even before the season started I thought our key weaknesses were pretty obvious - D/H, one quality secondrower and one centre, speed on the wing and a goal kicker. These are still the shortcomings of our squad and hopefully we will move to address these down the track. In the meantime we need to get Liddle back and test him out one way or another - if that doesn't work I think MM has earnt the spot over Godinet and we need to stop running them both and taking up bench space. We must do something about goal kicking urgently.
As for wing and centre - neither Milne or Fonua have shown enough to take away spots from Kev or MWZ/Noffa. As for the back row - once again the other options of McQueen or Sue are not playing well enough to oust Lawrence from the 17 who will remain there at least whilst ET is injured. Aloiai or MCK should probably start however with Lawrence back to the bench playing less minutes.

Totally agree with u. If the squad want to get serious. We need a faster winger and centre. Since we playing a forwards game we cannot carry two average dummy halves so and 80 minute dummy half would be good. . Also a man short in second row.

 

[earl]

Even before the season started I thought our key weaknesses were pretty obvious - D/H, one quality secondrower and one centre, speed on the wing and a goal kicker. These are still the shortcomings of our squad and hopefully we will move to address these down the track. In the meantime we need to get Liddle back and test him out one way or another - if that doesn't work I think MM has earnt the spot over Godinet and we need to stop running them both and taking up bench space. We must do something about goal kicking urgently.
As for wing and centre - neither Milne or Fonua have shown enough to take away spots from Kev or MWZ/Noffa. As for the back row - once again the other options of McQueen or Sue are not playing well enough to oust Lawrence from the 17 who will remain there at least whilst ET is injured. Aloiai or MCK should probably start however with Lawrence back to the bench playing less minutes.

Totally agree with u. If the squad want to get serious. We need a faster winger and centre. Since we playing a forwards game we cannot carry two average dummy halves so and 80 minute dummy half would be good. . Also a man short in second row.

We aren't going to have an 80 minute dummy half for a long time. Yes it'd be great but it's a tough position and we have a junior player and two journeyman that fill the role in our team. Maybe Liddle will be able to fill that role at some point or we could play Reynolds there for periods of the game but we aren't going to be able to have 4 forwards on the bench for a while. I can't see it happening this season or even in the next couple of seasons.

 

[Russell]

Even before the season started I thought our key weaknesses were pretty obvious - D/H, one quality secondrower and one centre, speed on the wing and a goal kicker. These are still the shortcomings of our squad and hopefully we will move to address these down the track. In the meantime we need to get Liddle back and test him out one way or another - if that doesn't work I think MM has earnt the spot over Godinet and we need to stop running them both and taking up bench space. We must do something about goal kicking urgently.
As for wing and centre - neither Milne or Fonua have shown enough to take away spots from Kev or MWZ/Noffa. As for the back row - once again the other options of McQueen or Sue are not playing well enough to oust Lawrence from the 17 who will remain there at least whilst ET is injured. Aloiai or MCK should probably start however with Lawrence back to the bench playing less minutes.

Totally agree with u. If the squad want to get serious. We need a faster winger and centre. Since we playing a forwards game we cannot carry two average dummy halves so and 80 minute dummy half would be good. . Also a man short in second row.

We aren't going to have an 80 minute dummy half for a long time. Yes it'd be great but it's a tough position and we have a junior player and two journeyman that fill the role in our team. Maybe Liddle will be able to fill that role at some point or we could play Reynolds there for periods of the game but we aren't going to be able to have 4 forwards on the bench for a while. I can't see it happening this season or even in the next couple of seasons.

Wait a minute - your telling us that is going to take a whole season for Liddle to be able to play 80 minutes.

Think your underestimating him a little bit.

 

[Nucky_Thompson]

Even before the season started I thought our key weaknesses were pretty obvious - D/H, one quality secondrower and one centre, speed on the wing and a goal kicker. These are still the shortcomings of our squad and hopefully we will move to address these down the track. In the meantime we need to get Liddle back and test him out one way or another - if that doesn't work I think MM has earnt the spot over Godinet and we need to stop running them both and taking up bench space. We must do something about goal kicking urgently.
As for wing and centre - neither Milne or Fonua have shown enough to take away spots from Kev or MWZ/Noffa. As for the back row - once again the other options of McQueen or Sue are not playing well enough to oust Lawrence from the 17 who will remain there at least whilst ET is injured. Aloiai or MCK should probably start however with Lawrence back to the bench playing less minutes.

Totally agree with u. If the squad want to get serious. We need a faster winger and centre. Since we playing a forwards game we cannot carry two average dummy halves so and 80 minute dummy half would be good. . Also a man short in second row.

We aren't going to have an 80 minute dummy half for a long time. Yes it'd be great but it's a tough position and we have a junior player and two journeyman that fill the role in our team. Maybe Liddle will be able to fill that role at some point or we could play Reynolds there for periods of the game but we aren't going to be able to have 4 forwards on the bench for a while. I can't see it happening this season or even in the next couple of seasons.

Wait a minute - your telling us that is going to take a whole season for Liddle to be able to play 80 minutes.

Think your underestimating him a little bit.

The biggest question mark for liddle is if his body can handle it wihout getting injured.

 

[earl]

Even before the season started I thought our key weaknesses were pretty obvious - D/H, one quality secondrower and one centre, speed on the wing and a goal kicker. These are still the shortcomings of our squad and hopefully we will move to address these down the track. In the meantime we need to get Liddle back and test him out one way or another - if that doesn't work I think MM has earnt the spot over Godinet and we need to stop running them both and taking up bench space. We must do something about goal kicking urgently.
As for wing and centre - neither Milne or Fonua have shown enough to take away spots from Kev or MWZ/Noffa. As for the back row - once again the other options of McQueen or Sue are not playing well enough to oust Lawrence from the 17 who will remain there at least whilst ET is injured. Aloiai or MCK should probably start however with Lawrence back to the bench playing less minutes.

Totally agree with u. If the squad want to get serious. We need a faster winger and centre. Since we playing a forwards game we cannot carry two average dummy halves so and 80 minute dummy half would be good. . Also a man short in second row.

We aren't going to have an 80 minute dummy half for a long time. Yes it'd be great but it's a tough position and we have a junior player and two journeyman that fill the role in our team. Maybe Liddle will be able to fill that role at some point or we could play Reynolds there for periods of the game but we aren't going to be able to have 4 forwards on the bench for a while. I can't see it happening this season or even in the next couple of seasons.

Wait a minute - your telling us that is going to take a whole season for Liddle to be able to play 80 minutes.

Think your underestimating him a little bit.

There aren't too many 80 minute dummy halves in the game. I don't expect Liddle to be playing 80 minutes per game regularly for a couple of seasons or if ever.

 

[Tim Sheens]

Totally agree with u. If the squad want to get serious. We need a faster winger and centre. Since we playing a forwards game we cannot carry two average dummy halves so and 80 minute dummy half would be good. . Also a man short in second row.

We aren't going to have an 80 minute dummy half for a long time. Yes it'd be great but it's a tough position and we have a junior player and two journeyman that fill the role in our team. Maybe Liddle will be able to fill that role at some point or we could play Reynolds there for periods of the game but we aren't going to be able to have 4 forwards on the bench for a while. I can't see it happening this season or even in the next couple of seasons.

Wait a minute - your telling us that is going to take a whole season for Liddle to be able to play 80 minutes.

Think your underestimating him a little bit.

There aren't too many 80 minute dummy halves in the game. I don't expect Liddle to be playing 80 minutes per game regularly for a couple of seasons or if ever.

I reckon Jacob can get through full games after half a dozen or so back, but not sure that it would suit our knock em down, drag em out approach and scramble for each other mantra that WT are currently employing.

 

[earl]

We aren't going to have an 80 minute dummy half for a long time. Yes it'd be great but it's a tough position and we have a junior player and two journeyman that fill the role in our team. Maybe Liddle will be able to fill that role at some point or we could play Reynolds there for periods of the game but we aren't going to be able to have 4 forwards on the bench for a while. I can't see it happening this season or even in the next couple of seasons.

Wait a minute - your telling us that is going to take a whole season for Liddle to be able to play 80 minutes.

Think your underestimating him a little bit.

There aren't too many 80 minute dummy halves in the game. I don't expect Liddle to be playing 80 minutes per game regularly for a couple of seasons or if ever.

I reckon Jacob can get through full games after half a dozen or so back, but not sure that it would suit our knock em down, drag em out approach and scramble for each other mantra that WT are currently employing.

I think Ivan is going to use Reynolds to play at hooker throughout the season. I'm not sure it will work but it will allow us to carry Benji or Reynolds on the bench.

I have no issues with 2 dummy halves but I'm not sure if Reynolds is the right player for that role.

 

[Tigerdon]

Wait a minute - your telling us that is going to take a whole season for Liddle to be able to play 80 minutes.

Think your underestimating him a little bit.

There aren't too many 80 minute dummy halves in the game. I don't expect Liddle to be playing 80 minutes per game regularly for a couple of seasons or if ever.

I reckon Jacob can get through full games after half a dozen or so back, but not sure that it would suit our knock em down, drag em out approach and scramble for each other mantra that WT are currently employing.

I think Ivan is going to use Reynolds to play at hooker throughout the season. I'm not sure it will work but it will allow us to carry Benji or Reynolds on the bench.

I have no issues with 2 dummy halves but I'm not sure if Reynolds is the right player for that role.

Reynolds wasn't great at DH in the trial games. He seemed slow to get into position. Since then he has been nursing a leg injury. I hope he can pick up the fundamentals over the next year or so. Because he could be a real threat from there.

 

[Tacky]

Really hope Lolo starts at fullback and sparks something for our attack

 

[colmcd]

Wait a minute - your telling us that is going to take a whole season for Liddle to be able to play 80 minutes.

Think your underestimating him a little bit.

There aren't too many 80 minute dummy halves in the game. I don't expect Liddle to be playing 80 minutes per game regularly for a couple of seasons or if ever.

I reckon Jacob can get through full games after half a dozen or so back, but not sure that it would suit our knock em down, drag em out approach and scramble for each other mantra that WT are currently employing.

I think Ivan is going to use Reynolds to play at hooker throughout the season. I'm not sure it will work but it will allow us to carry Benji or Reynolds on the bench.

I have no issues with 2 dummy halves but I'm not sure if Reynolds is the right player for that role.

At Penrith they looked at Josh Mansour and went, your a winger. Stay a winger.
Jamal Idris, a known athlete but not Rugby league savvy. Should have stayed a winger, but they put the big unit up front. Now he has retired.

Likewise, we try Reynolds at hooker, if it worked. Great, but it did not work.
Reynolds is physically tough and has a fair bit of mongrel in him. But he is a ball runner and not known for his passing. Putting Reynolds in at hooker is like putting Robbie Farah at hooker. You get a ball Hog who doesn't let their halves do their thing.

Try Reynolds again but if it does not click work with the Hookers we have. McIllwick for muscle and grit with Liddle for flair. My view is Reynolds makes a great Center, he has grit, good running speed and if he is paired with a winger he trusts he could develop one or two passing options. i.e. Justin Hodges, SKD style. Hooker is a greater physical strain and I don't think he has the motor for hooker at 80 min.