Your Team vs Cowboys

[TYGA]

This is the game to give Jake Simpkin some game time and experience the 8th wonder.

 

[balmain boy]

We need some changes big time & my changes for this week would be:
Mbye in at number 6 that's his best position with Douiehi into the centre’s. Joey Leilua should come into the back row for Garner. I think Joey is too slow to be a centre but not so in the back row, Cini has been vey good in NSW Cup & should replace Kepaoa while Ofahengaue should go into lock for Twal. Simpkin in for Liddle who can go onto the bench with impact when he comes on.
Team:
Daine Laurie
David Nofoaluma
James Roberts
Adam Douiehi
Zac Cini
Moses Mbye
Luke Brooks
Joe Ofahengaue
Joey Leilua
Luciano Leilua
Zane Musgrove
Jake Simpkin
James Tamou
Bench
Jacob Liddle
Alex Twal
Thomas Mikaele
Stefano Uotikamanu

You've outdone yourself once again. Congratulations

 

[balmain boy]

For me, both Talau and Kepaoa are just not performing to the NRL level yet .. maybe drop them back and make them earn their spots back .. Not sure if Kiah Cooper is a dev player or not .. ?? .. but he's seems to perform ok in the NSW Cup side.

Kelma Tuilagi is doing well in the NSW Cup team .. can see him promoted up when the dev players are allowed to be selected

Tom Amone also performeing very well .. he certainly hits line with a lot determination and was very hard to contain.

1 - Laurie
2 - Nofoaluma
3 - Roberts
4 - Leilua
5 - Cini / Kiah Cooper (knows how to get over the line)
6 - Doueihi
7 - Madden

13 - Ofahengaue
12 - Leilua
11 - Simpkins
10 - Tamou
9 - Liddle
8 - Musgrove

14 - Simpkin
15 - Twal
16 - Utoikamanu
17 - Mikaele

If the Chooks were allowed to play dev players on the weekend then so should every other team .. !

So you judge wingers exclusively on being able to dive over the line? Sorry to be the one to tell you there's a lot more to it than that...

And no Cooper is not a dev contract. Should be cut from NSW Cup imo

And yes any club can play dev players at any stage of the season, if they have no fit players in that position. Thats why clever clubs often have spine players on dev contracts

 

[Cairnstigers]

1 Daine Laurie
2 David Nofoaluma
3 James Roberts
4 Joey Leilua
5 Tommy Talau

6 Adam Doueihi
7 Luke Brooks

8 Alex Twal
9 Jacob Liddle
10 Zane Musgrove
11 Luke Garner
12 Luciano Leilua
13 Joe Ofahengaue

14 Moses Mbye
15 Stefano U Tonk A Man U
16 James Tamou
17 Thomas Mikaele

Much better
Plodder Tamou on the bench is where he should be ..
When Joffa and Stefano came on we looked heaps better ..

Does Tamou keep getting picked ?

I would like to see Tamou off the bench
We need a little more aggression to start the game
We need to have the opposition on the back foot from the start
No point bringing that aggression on to the field when the opposition has already got away to a good start
We always seem to be on the back foot

 

[Newtown]

I dunno anymore. Cows look worse than us. Can’t go on with Garner.


Garner hits hard when he wants to.

Onus on WHen he wants to.

 

[Tiger_Fanatic3]

Joey possibly earned recall

 

[Guest]

Joey possibly earned recall

No he did not

 

[Yossarian]

Joey possibly earned recall

No he did not

I didn’t watch the reggies on the weekend but the fact we’re even having the conversation is frankly depressing. Joey and Jimmy should be one of the competition’s best centre pairings.

 

[Guest]

Joey possibly earned recall

No he did not

I didn’t watch the reggies on the weekend but the fact we’re even having the conversation is frankly depressing. Joey and Jimmy should be one of the competition’s best centre pairings.

I don't disagree, but Joey shows all the urgency of the Titanic trying to avoid the iceberg...and that's his problem! We just don't have enough leadership and desperation across the park to compete with the top teams.

Most of my frustration from yesterday boils down to the fact that we looked down and out at 16-0, and again at 24-10, yet with less than 10 to go we're in with a genuine shot at winning. So yes, there's some fighting spirit among a few, but not all, and that's what we lack, you can't afford to have passengers in your team and expect to beat the heavyweights.

Football smarts aside, we lack a couple of key ingredients - if Joey had the work ethic and desperation in defence that someone like Josh Morris has, well we'd be onto a winner.