Round 3: Newcastle Knights vs South Sydney Rabbitohs

What's your prediction for this game

  • Knights 13+

    Votes: 1 3.6%

  • Knights 1-12

    Votes: 17 60.7%

  • Draw

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Rabbitohs 1-12

    Votes: 6 21.4%

  • Rabbitohs 13+

    Votes: 4 14.3%
  • Total voters
    28
  • Poll closed .
Knights Squad

1. Brendan Elliott
2. Ken Sio
3. Dane Gagai
4. Peter Mata'utia
5. Nathan Ross
6. Brock Lamb
7. Trent Hodkinson (c)
8. Daniel Saifiti
9. Danny Levi
10. Josh Starling
11. Sione Mata'utia
12. Jamie Buhrer
13. Mitchell Barnett

14. Luke Yates
15. Jack Stockwell
16. Sam Stone
17. Jacob Saifiti
18. Jacob Gagan
19. Joe Wardle
20. Josh King
21. Anthony Tupou

Rabbitohs Squad

1. Alex Johnston
2. Braidon Burns
3. Hymel Hunt
4. Robert Jennings
5. Bryson Goodwin
6. Cody Walker
7. Adam Reynolds
8. Zane Musgrove
9. Robbie Farah
10. Jason Clark
11. John Sutton
12. Kyle Turner
13. Sam Burgess (c)

14. Damien Cook
15. Angus Crichton
16. Robert Rochow
17. George Burgess
18. Siosifa Talakai
19. Anthony Cherrington
20. Cam Murrary
21. Tom Burgess


http://www.newcastleknights.com.au/team/team-list.html

http://www.rabbitohs.com.au/news/2017/03/14/rabbitohs_squads_for2.html
 
Little surprised at Wardle even being named in the initial squad

Looked okay as the game went on last week in reserve grade but was off the pace for the majority of it
 
Lamb and Levi must be 100%.
Under the new rules we can only use the 21 named, and since Randell isn't named, if Levi or Lamb were out, we'd have to replace them with Josh King or Anthony Tupou.
 
I'd be telling Starling & Barnett to target Burgess and be the first ones there every time he takes a hit-up. If we can get Burgess off his game they don't have much else going for them in their forwards. Meant to be raining all day too, and the Burgess bros have terrible hands at the best of times.

Dan Saifiti vs Musgrove should be fun to watch.
 
mullenmagic said:
Meant to be raining all day too, and the Burgess bros have terrible hands at the best of times.
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Funny you should say that, I was going through the Rabbitohs players stats for 2016 and 2017 when I was doing this thread up and Sam made a whopping 28 errors last year

He was the worst player for the Rabbitohs when it came to handling errors and the next worse to him was Cody Walker who made 19

I've just had a look through 2014 and 2015 too

If you go back to 2015 George and Tom made 19 each and were tied for second

In 2014 Sam topped the error count again with 25, George made 12, Luke made 9 and Tom made 9 so thats a combined 55 errors between them
 
mullenmagic said:
I'd be telling Starling & Barnett to target Burgess and be the first ones there every time he takes a hit-up. If we can get Burgess off his game they don't have much else going for them in their forwards. Meant to be raining all day too, and the Burgess bros have terrible hands at the best of times.

Dan Saifiti vs Musgrove should be fun to watch.
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was it Musgrove he had a flare up with last season?
 
Yeah Musgrove went at both the twins and imo won the battle.
Really wish we chased him at the end of last yr the guy is a beast
 
Billy said:
Lamb and Levi must be 100%.
Under the new rules we can only use the 21 named, and since Randell isn't named, if Levi or Lamb were out, we'd have to replace them with Josh King or Anthony Tupou.
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You can bring in someone else if its for a medical reason pending nrl approval.
 
Surprised Lamb needs to pass a fitness test to play this weekend, given they brought him back on the field against the Titans after passing the HIA. Calling ******** on that one!
 
Shame Billy Shame!

Fancy suggesting coaches played the old game of ducks and drakes naming players they had no intention of playing, and calling up others an hour before the game. It has been bought in at the insistence of the betting companies whose punters won't bet when conned by the coaches.
 
AFAIK it is yet to be tested by a team that named their squad on Tuesday, and suffered an injury, to ask the NRL to bring in a replacement from outside the squad.

And it's ridiculous the NRL is now creating rules not only to suit TV, but also betting companies now.
 
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