Pre-season challenge - R2 - Knights V Parra - Friday 17th Feb, 5.55pm Gosford Stadium

[Grandpa Joe]

Notice Ryan Matterson who has a 3 match suspension is on the extended bench for the Eels? So why can't Crocker play.

 

[slotmachine]

Cause he is suspended for a Grade 3 offence.

 

[jamesgould]

Happened all the time last year and he would switch to the bench. And if Elliot coming back from injury makes sense just to give him 20-30 minutes.

He only started one game off the bench last year, and he was named in 14 for that game. If he's named in 13 I'm pretty sure he'll be starting.

I'm pretty sure AOB still sees him as a starting lock, tbh.

 

[Tom Hill]

Surely we can jag a big battering ram prop from somewhere for reasonably cheap.

 

[frankLauda]

So we got rid of Saulo and Momoisea. Good idea? Not sure. I didn’t watch the trail but from all accounts our forward pack was underwhelming. I don’t want to get head of myself but a bit worrying. Let’s see how we run out this trail and round one.

If we look anything like we did last year then AOB has gotta go sooner rather than later.

 

[Grandpa Joe]

I wasn't fussed about Saulo but in hindsight terrible mistake, Momoisea is plod.

 

[Billy]

I notice on the NRL match page that Adam Elliot is out and Ben Talty has been added in Jersey 27, but no one moved up to replace Elliot in the top 17 yet.

 

[EASBay17]

could he be planning on using elliot in the prop rotation with the safs and leo, mann to play 80 as a ball playing lock?

 

[Grandpa Joe]

I sincerely hope we did a proper medical on Elliot, hip injuries can be career enders.

And any word on Hetherington yet.

 

[Owey]

I sincerely hope we did a proper medical on Elliot, hip injuries can be career enders.

And any word on Hetherington yet.

I know what you're saying, but I think the injury came well after we had signed him

 

[slotmachine]

You just know if we struggle AOB is going to point at KP, Elliott and Hetherington being injured for a good chunk of pre-season, and Miller showing up at the 11th hour.

 

[Billy]

O'Brien saying Elliot rolled his ankle at training and would play this week if 2 points were on offer. but no use risking him.

 

[Billy]

Something that many won't like - O'brien wants to get Mann, Crossland and Gamble all into the 17, and says he's "got a plan".

He also says Hunt had a great pre-season and a great first trial.

 

[Lefty]

Something that many won't like - O'brien wants to get Mann, Crossland and Gamble all into the 17, and says he's "got a plan".

He also says Hunt had a great pre-season and a great first trial.

Wow, 3 utilities I’m in the 17.

Elliot should be the lock, I don’t think Mann is a lock, his body can’t handle playing as a forward for more than a few games. Mann could be selected at 14 for the first few games, to see how he performs.

You could have 2 utilities on the bench but not 3 in the 17. He could rotate 2 utility positions in the team between Mann, Crossland and Gamble.

 

[slotmachine]

Something that many won't like - O'brien wants to get Mann, Crossland and Gamble all into the 17, and says he's "got a plan".

The "plan" must be finding another job.

 

[Owey]

I thought the plan was waiting for KP to get injured so Gamble plays 5/8

 

[Battler]

Something that many won't like - O'brien wants to get Mann, Crossland and Gamble all into the 17, and says he's "got a plan".

He also says Hunt had a great pre-season and a great first trial.

He was referring to this trial, yeah? Surely he wasn’t talking about round 1.

 

[jamesgould]

Something that many won't like - O'brien wants to get Mann, Crossland and Gamble all into the 17, and says he's "got a plan".

He also says Hunt had a great pre-season and a great first trial.

Dude with his three premierships thinks he's playing 4D chess.

 

[OnTilt]

Dude with his three premierships thinks he's playing 4D chess.

The bloke thinks he is some kind of mastermind. We play the most boring football imaginable, why stack the team with a bunch of small blokes.. oh that's right we passed off all our forwards.

 

[danknights]

Haha obi you absolute goose. So our tired forwards will have to stay out and get reamed in the middle and Obi will just shrug and give some bulldust excuse about pre-season. Yuck yuck yuck.