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Paix came through the grades as a halfback, but is he any good there? Can he cover the halves if needed?

Where do you see him playing, and who for?

I like Cook, and I think he has become a bit of a scapegoat at Souths, however, he is not what we need. I would much rather spend money on a halfback or a backrower, than spend it on Cook.

Working with what we've got, I think as a short term solution, Staggs would be able to handle being in the backrow for 80mins. We also have more backline depth and more options to work with to cover Staggs, despite the Hoeter injury. Carrigan can do a job in the backrow, but then we lose all...

He might also be the only one tall enough to catch the short dropouts haha.

Good thing he is actually 19 so we won't need to wait till the end of the year for him to be ready haha. I don't think he should be playing long minutes every week at this stage, but I think the next three games as a minimum are the perfect games for him to get some more NRL experience. The...

I think people are just concerned that he can't string a month of football together without getting injured. By the early reports, It's not even the same injury this time, but hopefully it's not anything major. Maybe it is just bad luck. He was obviously frustrated and upset. Any talks of an...

Unfortunately our backline isn't the tallest. At one stage Mariner was just batting the ball dead because he wasn't going to outjump Coates from a standing start.

Agreed. You are not allowed to push someone in the back when competing for a catch, so how is kneeing someone in the back any different to pushing someone in the back? It is still taking a player out of the contest, and if anything, it is more dangerous. What happens if Mariner falls to the...

Did anyone see an angle of Coates getting the ball down? Not saying he didn't get it down, but I couldn't see an angle that showed it. It just looked like he kept struggling till the end as if he had been held up and failed to get the ball down.

It's a very good sign that he can raise his level like that. In a fully fit team with support from Haas/Carrigan he won't need to do much more than what he did tonight. If he can consistently provide the level he showed tonight, we will have a one hell of a forward pack rotation. I can't wait to...

We needed to give Cobbo more early ball to get him one on one with Meaney. The few times we did, he was doing some damage to the Melbourne defensive line. Likewise, we needed to give a fresh Oates some good ball close to the line, but we kept playing away from him. We just seemed so...

I'd like to see the following team. 1. Sailor / Walsh (if cleared to play) 2. Arthur's 3. Staggs 4. Cobbo 5. Mariner 6. Mam 7. Madden / Reynolds (if cleared to play) 8. Jensen 9. Walters 10. Carrigan 11. Hunt / Piakura (if cleared to play) 12. Riki 13. Hetherington 14. Smoothy 15. Willison 16...

Limiting it to just Australia is probably doing Kevvie a favour haha.

To me he was more of a five-eighth at heart who was stuck in a props body. It was like he just severely outgrew the position he wanted to play as a kid.

One positive to take away from all these matches without Haas, Walsh, Piakura and Reynolds etc. is that this team doesn't just crumble and concede that they'll lose the match. They are still fighting to the end, and that is a testament to Kevvie and the attitude that he has instilled in the...

Our front row pecking order should be: 1. Haas 2. Jensen 3. Willison 4. Te Kura 5. Taupau 6. Some random Broncos fan 7. Baker 8. Hunt

Te Kura deserves to keep his spot, and Willison should come back in to the side for Baker. Baker offers nothing with his runs, and his defence is soft. Hunt is in the same boat as Baker, but until Piakura returns, I guess we are stuck with him.

Aaah of course. I was close with my thinking. I envisioned a drop goal from Reynolds but the ball hits the post and splits in half, with one half going through the post, while the other rebounds back in the field of play.

Agreed. If we are wasting two interchanges on the hooker position, and if we are also going to be playing Taupau, who can't do long minutes, it puts pressure on how we use our interchanges. It likely means Haas and Carrigan will be doing longer minutes, and that is something we can't be doing...