Foundation Cup: TEAMS AND MATCHDAY DETAILS

[Guest]

Is the game on 9 or fox?

[Guest]

Is the game on 9 or fox?

No its not televised.

[Guest]

Cut Symonds and J Carney from the bench (have J Carney and Leilua fighting it out for that wing spot) and add Todd Carney in at five-eighth, and that is the best team we can field.

At full strength:

1. Minichiello (former NSW/Australia rep)
2. Graham
3. Linnett
4. Kenny-Dowall (current NZ rep)
5. Perrett (current NZ rep)
6. T Carney (current Australia rep)
7. Pearce (current NSW rep)
8. Ryles (former NSW/Australia rep)
9. Friend
10. Kennedy
11. Anasta (former NSW/Australia rep)
12. Aubusson
13. Myles (current QLD/Australia rep)

14. Watts
15. Nuuausala (current NZ rep)
16. Hargreaves (current NZ rep)
17. Masoe

18. Leilua
19. Riddell
20. Conn
21. J Carney

Tremendously good team IMO, great balance of experience and youth, plenty of representative class players, and most of the non-representative players are either players with tremendous potential (Aubusson, Linnett, Kennedy, Friend, Watts, Masoe, Leilua, J Carney) or providing experience (Graham, Riddell, Conn).

Graham and J Carney provide outstanding backline depth, Riddell, Leilua and Symonds offer flexible utilities, while Conn and Arona provide strong forward depth.

[fletch]

Mack it looks like Smith has settled on Leilua for the vacant wing spot whether Graham is fit or not.

[Guest]

No its not televised.

TA!

[bigben]

Brian Smith said in the foundation cup interview he will have 7 players on the bench but only named 6. then i heard today that Rhys Pritchard will be the 7th , anyone know if this is correct. ??

[TheLoneRooster]

Based on the team list and speculatively extrapolating, it seems like Smith is sticking Myles with all the work again. Anasta and MAubs don't really do enough as 11s and 12s in terms of the yardage game and the Roosters may get outmuscled again like they did last year in some games.

[Guest]

Anasta not only missed the #6; he also missed out as lock #13.
A Statement from Smith? Your thoughts?

I believe you're spot on there Axe, thought the same myself. If Anasta is get an update to his contract, he'll need to compete on a weekly basis against a bunch of bigger, stronger, younger and more aggressive players, I wonder how many minutes a game he'll spend on the field. He has a tough row to hoe.

[Guest]

He has a tough row to hoe.

Don't worry, Braith has runs on the board rowing tough hoes.

[Guest]

i heard him say somewhere..cant remember where that smithy had him in the 13 but never played lock..to ward off media attention or something




Coach Brian Smith started Anasta in the second row of Saturday's trial loss to the Bulldogs, where the talented ball-player laid on a try for rookie centre Willie Mataka.

"I'll be doing the same thing as last year, Smithy just didn't name me there last year just so we didn't have to put up with all the hoohah and all the garbage that goes with it," Anasta explained.

"When the coach is not naming me in certain numbers because he's worried about the media stuff, that's a good indication (of the media scrutiny)."

[Geohood]

http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/l...215-1auzy.html

"Anasta also revealed that despite being named at lock forward for the bulk of last season, he actually played in the secondrow - but continued to be named at lock to ward off media scrutiny."

[The Brain]

Has Supermuz got his anti- Archer banner going?

[melon....]

Why aren't they wearing the new Away jersey during the trials?

ISC probably havent finished putting the sponsors and logos on.

[BUDDY]

Has the NYC team been announced?

[Guest]

Pritchard is the 7th bench player. Hargraves was meant to play for Newtown on Sunday, however with Conn suffering an injury midweek smith has been forced to push JWH back into the team.