Surely Royce, even not in tip top shape, adds something off the bench??
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I’ve been saying this for a month at least. We tried to play grind it out footy with inferior players and expected somehow we could compete. We need to go back to the game plan we had in the first 8 weeks of the season.
our round 2 team was:
1 Bula
2 turuva
3 douhie
4 toa
5 skelton
6 galvin
7. luai
8 may
9 api
10 pole
11 sam Fainu
12 Seyfarth
13 twal
14 da silva
15 hunt
16 bird
17 Sione
Obviously we have some forced changes but I think our best squad is
1 Bula
2 turuva
3 may
4 toa
5 skelton
6 Latu
7. luai
8 may
9 api
10 pole
11 sam Fainu
12 Seyfarth
13 twal
14 douhie
15 hunt
16 hope
17 Sione
Hope starting worked better than playing either side of half time. He doesn’t have the impact that TDS has around the ruck so it’s not point bringing him on after 25min. Let Api do that after hope has absorbed 20min of defence.
Douhie to play some 13 or cover the back row/backline. I’m not in love with him at first receiver yet. I think Luai needs to go back to first receiver if we are a chance. Toa needs to have a much improved effort because his form dipped has killed out left side attack - Bula back will help.
hopefully we stay with them in the first 20 and hunt and rapi both can come on and we up the tempo.
I’ve been saying this for a month at least. We tried to play grind it out footy with inferior players and expected somehow we could compete. We need to go back to the game plan we had in the first 8 weeks of the season.
our round 2 team was:
1 Bula
2 turuva
3 douhie
4 toa
5 skelton
6 galvin
7. luai
8 may
9 api
10 pole
11 sam Fainu
12 Seyfarth
13 twal
14 da silva
15 hunt
16 bird
17 Sione
Obviously we have some forced changes but I think our best squad is
1 Bula
2 turuva
3 may4 toa
5 skelton
6 Latu
7. luai
8 may
9 api
10 pole
11 sam Fainu
12 Seyfarth
13 twal
14 douhie
15 hunt
16 hope
17 Sione
Hope starting worked better than playing either side of half time. He doesn’t have the impact that TDS has around the ruck so it’s not point bringing him on after 25min. Let Api do that after hope has absorbed 20min of defence.
Douhie to play some 13 or cover the back row/backline. I’m not in love with him at first receiver yet. I think Luai needs to go back to first receiver if we are a chance. Toa needs to have a much improved effort because his form dipped has killed out left side attack - Bula back will help.
hopefully we stay with them in the first 20 and hunt and rapi both can come on and we up the tempo.
I’m off Toa (obviously injured), Skelton, Doueihi, Twal, Seyfarth, Hope, and especially Pole.
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Pole has been very disappointing since coming back from injury. If he and May are not firing, there is no chance we can stand up to opposing forward packs with the rest of the cattle we have up front.
