- Fletcher Sharpe
- Dom Young
- Dane Gagai
- Fletcher Hunt
- Greg Marzhew
- Sandon Smith
- Dylan Brown
- Tyson Frizell
- Phoenix Crossland
- Cody Hopwood / Mooney
- Dylan Lucas
- Jermaine McEwen
- Mat Croker
Bench
Harrison Graham
Lachlan Crouch
Brodie Jones / Hopwood
Francis Manulelua
Thomas Cant
Kyle McCarthy
Reasons:
Ponga & Best
I’d love to use Bradman and Ponga but I’m a little hesitant because we are at that stage that if you get one semi bad injury than your season is done so I’d go on the side of caution especially with the tough games coming after Souths
Props:
I’m hearing Mooney might be back and if so that’s a massive in and will go right into the starting side with Hopwood on the bench and knocking Jones back to cup.
Manu:
I’d be so extremely tempted to use him as a impact bench prop giving the circumstances as he is aggressive, has good movement and good leg drive but not quite sure he could handle it but I’d be tempted even if it’s the last 20 minutes of the game, but that will mean we don’t use Cant and we can’t have that according to the coaches or the universe might explode.
Hunt & Sharpe
I’d keep them for now but Sharpe desperately needs to get better at contested kicks and Hunt needs to work on positioning because he almost screwed us on that one play where he was 6 miles in field but apart from that he played a really good game so I’d keep him for this one
Dane Gagai:
I know some might say he had a good game but in my opinion it wasn’t, a few times he could have backed Young and didn’t and Young toke it on himself to push Gagai away and move into centre just to get the ball, not to mention his stupid lack of ball security. So far POS is looking like he can see the future by letting him go.
Absolutely no way I would move Croker back to the prop he isn’t one just very simply he isn’t a nrl prop, he looked like he was going to be on the outer as a prop and he has been a revelation at lock, it would be borderline idiotic to move him anywhere while in career best form.
