Team announced!

[melon....]

Do you think there is any chance Anasta could try playing like a second-rower this weekend and leave the ball-playing and kicking to Pearce and Carney..??

He tackles well, so he just needs to concentrate on hitting the ball up hard and maybe getting an occasional offload going..??

Thats what the lazy slug should be doing. Thats what FPN used to do but stopped. Are they just following instructions? are they badly coached?

[Guest]

I'm happy with that...even though I know it won't be the final line up...the pack will change...but most of all seeing the name Carney next to the number 6 has given me hope again for this season...

[Cockadoodledoo]

Let's just get back to winning, rather than looking for miracles.

that made me lol...

[supermario]

Jeremy Smith has been ruled out for the sharks for the next month.

Gardiner is also out from last match with his ankle injury

[elo]

Their pack is still better than ours.

Souths reserve grade pack dealt with them easily, they only have 1 front rower in Snowden - Douglas was a better second rower who can toil but offers no genuine punch, Tupou is an enigma which leaves Gallen who is great but one player doesn't make a team. The rest of them are reggies, we turn up we win this comfortably.

[rooster_booster]

We're still only 2 points out of the 8 rofl

[Guest]

Thats what the lazy slug should be doing. Thats what FPN used to do but stopped. Are they just following instructions? are they badly coached?

Seemed like the entire team stopped offloading this year. It was one of our strengths last season, particularly through Ryles and Conn. Created a lot of second phase play which our backs worked off. This season it's all about structure. Forwards tucking it under their arm and running straight. No thought of offloads

It's definately an instruction. Our forwards would certainly look to offload if they were allowed to

[Guest]

Things I really like about this team:

- Linnett back in the centres
- Aubusson back in the forwards

Things I do not like about the team:

- Nuuausala at lock (should be on the bench)
- Myles at prop (should be at lock)

The best thing about Myles at lock, is that while he has the defensive workload of a lock, he is essentially a third prop in attack. This is what puts him ahead of guys like Harrison, Stagg, Johnson, and most other locks going around (other than Paul Gallen, of course).

You an always be critical and say "well Luke Lewis and Greg Bird are good locks, and even a bargain player like Matt Hilder is decent" but remember, in their respective backrows they are usually accompanied by Trent Waterhouse, Anthony Laffranchi and Chris Houston, all of whom are much like Myles in a sense that their size along with their defensive workload covers for the more attacking-based players in the lineup, and their size might make up for the smaller and more mobile backrowers.

This is why we must hold onto Myles for dear life. He is young (1985 born, as opposed to Laffranchi who is 1980, Waterhouse who is 1981), he balances out our backrow alongside our usual wide-running troopers (Anasta, Aubusson, Symonds), and is a good contrast alongside Kennedy and Ryles, with the more explosive abilities of Nuuausala, Masoe, Tasi and Hargreaves. If we were to replace him with anyone IMO, it would be Houston, as he possesses Myles youth, size, strength, workrate and fitness - just needs to iron a few errors and penalties out of his game.

[RooSta]

Daniel conn is he named for newtown??

[Juggler]

Souths reserve grade pack dealt with them easily, they only have 1 front rower in Snowden - Douglas was a better second rower who can toil but offers no genuine punch, Tupou is an enigma which leaves Gallen who is great but one player doesn't make a team. The rest of them are reggies, we turn up we win this comfortably.

We have to turn up though...