Teams up

[Waylander]

Teams up for the Storm game in Adelaide:

1. Teddy
2. Toops
3. Latrell
4. Aubbo
5. Fergo
6. Keary
7. Coops
8. SST
9. Friend
10. Napa
11. Rads
12. Butcher
13. Liu
14. Collins
15. Tets
16. Baptiste
17. Ikuvalu

Yep, that's right Penner's, a winger on the bench. Again. Go figure.

Extended bench:

Tupouniua
Momirovski
Cornish
Smith
FPN
JWH

[IRoosterManI]

when Matto eventually returns... does he push Rads to the bench?

[Tommy Smith]

No way. Or at least I hope not.

Matto offers nothing in attack where as Radley is basically God. He needs to play 55-60+ min per game and he can only do that starting.

[Thirteen]

Screw Matto walking straight back into the side. He hasn’t earnt that right.

[007]

I'd be starting Ikavulu on the wing, Fergo to centre, Aubo to the bench and Tupouniua in place of Baptiste. As I've said before - Radley can play hooker if necessary. Or will Baptiste finally get to play more than 10 minutes (in total) in 240 minutes of football?

[Thirteen]

I'd be starting Ikavulu on the wing, Fergo to centre, Aubo to the bench and Tupouniua in place of Baptiste. As I've said before - Radley can play hooker if necessary. Or will Baptiste finally get to play more than 10 minutes (in total) in 240 minutes of football?

No chance Fergo to centre. Club only views him as a winger.

[Lydon]

Melbourne have names a strong side with Nelson Asofa Solomona starting,interesting to see if he plays considering the NZ players haven’t even arrived home yet..
JWH names on an extended bench,let’s see how it pans out.

[roosterproud]

I'd be starting Ikavulu on the wing, Fergo to centre, Aubo to the bench and Tupouniua in place of Baptiste. As I've said before - Radley can play hooker if necessary. Or will Baptiste finally get to play more than 10 minutes (in total) in 240 minutes of football?

thanks for saving me time to write that.

[fletch]

no way that is the 17 that plays Friday night.

[RoosterFanNZ]

if we actually end up playing baptiste and ikivalu on the bench just wtf. i pray to god its not

[Headless Chook]

I don't know why you would move Fergo to the centres. His strength is his carries from the back and if he's playing centres he's not going to do that. He also struggled defensively when we had him in the centres

[Johnny Brass]

Liu has taken matto spot as the right edge 2nd rower despite still wearing number 13. Radley is playing as our lock now and it's a better look for our team.
Radley and Cameron Murray from Souths are smaller, ball playing forwards in the middle of the field and are moving away from the lock just being an extra prop which is completely unnecessary. The outside backs do a lot of the hit ups early in the set in any case.
Ponga played lock in origin the other night and nearly won it for Qld despite never playing there before .
I think it's been a great initiative from Robbo and he deserves some credit for it.

[007]

I don't know why you would move Fergo to the centres. His strength is his carries from the back and if he's playing centres he's not going to do that. He also struggled defensively when we had him in the centres

Fergo has also made many mistakes whilst on the wing also. My reasoning for him to move to centre is with Manu out I don't see any points coming from Aubo (albeit he is defensively good so that can counteract a try not being scored) but I can't see the point of having a winger on the bench - just my thoughts.

Hopefully the Storm are decimated; (see attachment) This is a seriously tricky game but if we can steal this one I think it will be a good springboard for the rest of the year.

https://www.nrl.com/news/2018/04/24/...and-late-mail/

[Easts75]

If we win this i think we finish top 4, its a huge game for us

[fletch]

on NRL tonight they were saying the 2nd Kiwi flight had been grounded, its unclear whether they have even left the US yet.