PRE-GAME Round 1 - Broncos vs Eels

[Foordy]

NRL - Round 1
Friday, 12th of March, 2021​

1. Jamayne Isaako 2. Xavier Coates 3. Herbie Farnworth 4. Tesi Niu 5. David Mead 6. Anthony Milford 7. Brodie Croft 8. Tevita Pangai Junior 9. Jake Turpin 10. Matthew Lodge 11. Alex Glenn 12. Jordan Riki 13. Patrick Carrigan 14. John Asiata 15. Thomas Flegler 16. Ethan Bullemor 17. Ben Te'o 18. Tom Dearden 19. Rhys Kennedy 20. Richard Kennar 21. Cory Paix	1. Clinton Gutherson 2. Maika Sivo 3. Tom Opacic 4. Waqa Blake 5. Blake Ferguson 6. Dylan Brown 7. Mitchell Moses 8. Reagan Campbell-Gillard 9. Reed Mahoney 10. Junior Paulo 11. Shaun Lane 12. Ryan Matterson 13. Nathan Brown 14. Oregon Kaufusi 15. Isaiah Papali'i 16. Keegan Hipgrave 17. Will Smith 18. Haze Dunster 19. Joey Lussick 20. Jordan Rankin 21. David Hollis
Coach: Kevin Walters	Coach: Brad Arthur
Referee: Adam Gee Touch Judges: Belinda Sharpe, Michael Wise Senior Review Official: Henry Perenara	Venue: Suncorp Stadium Kickoff: 7:05 pm Broadcast: Channel 9; Foxleague; Kayo

 

[Foordy]

so the trial is done and dusted ... time to focus on the season proper. If I was in Kevvies shoes, I would name the following team:

1. Isaako
2. Mead
3. Farnworth
4. Nui
5. Coates
6. Milford
7. Dearden
8. Lodge
9. Turpin
10. Pangai
11. Glenn (c)
12. Riki
13. Asiata

14. Croft
15. Carrigan
16. Flegler (if fit)
17. Oates

some of the omissions:

• Paix - if we plan on turning him into a hooker, he needs to be in the ISC playing big minutes (rather than 10 mins of the bench)
• Walsh - Unless we want to be short sighted (potentially stunting his development) he should spend the first half of the season (at a minimum) in the ISC developing his game. besides, attacking wise, there wasn't a big issue with Isaako, he showed some good signs. defense was a bit of an issue, so the big question was how did Walsh go defensively in this weekends trial. If we develop Walsh right he has the potential to be a gun for us over the next decade, lets not screw it up because we are "panicking" after one trial

 

[Xzei]

bullemor for oates and arthas for mead for me

 

[I bleed Maroon]

Parra by 18. We're in for a long year.

 

[The Strapper]

Parra by 18. We're in for a long year.

Parra are 1.33 to win which is probably overs.

 

[Kooly87]

Parra are 1.33 to win which is probably overs.

Yep, easy money.

 

[Huge]

Happy days...$200 @ 3's.

Should have backed Parra and put the mock on them I suppose.

 

[Kooly87]

Happy days...$200 @ 3's.

Should have backed Parra and put the mock on them I suppose.

Happy Days for the bookmaker maybe.

I thought you'd have learned your lessons last year. You must be keeping Sportsbet in business these days.

 

[Huge]

Happy Days for the bookmaker maybe.

I thought you'd have learned your lessons last year. You must be keeping Sportsbet in business these days.

I love giving it to them though, you wouldn't deprive me of that pleasure, would you?

 

[The Strapper]

I love giving it to them though, you wouldn't deprive me of that pleasure, would you?

Wouldn’t you get more pleasure actually winning money?

 

[Kooly87]

Wouldn’t you get more pleasure actually winning money?

Money is for poor people to worry about remember.

 

[pagey]

bullemor for oates and arthas for mead for me

Yep , exactly my thoughts.

 

[winslow_wong]

Ah well time to make some money off the broncos again.

 

[Culhwch]

Broncos by 14.

 

[McHunt]

4. Nui

Oi Froody, get it together.

 

[NSW stables]

so the trial is done and dusted ... time to focus on the season proper. If I was in Kevvies shoes, I would name the following team:

1. Isaako
2. Mead
3. Farnworth
4. Nui
5. Coates
6. Milford
7. Dearden
8. Lodge
9. Turpin
10. Pangai
11. Glenn (c)
12. Riki
13. Asiata

14. Croft
15. Carrigan
16. Flegler (if fit)
17. Oates

some of the omissions:

• Paix - if we plan on turning him into a hooker, he needs to be in the ISC playing big minutes (rather than 10 mins of the bench)
• Walsh - Unless we want to be short sighted (potentially stunting his development) he should spend the first half of the season (at a minimum) in the ISC developing his game. besides, attacking wise, there wasn't a big issue with Isaako, he showed some good signs. defense was a bit of an issue, so the big question was how did Walsh go defensively in this weekends trial. If we develop Walsh right he has the potential to be a gun for us over the next decade, lets not screw it up because we are "panicking" after one trial

I think teo (i personally would like to see bullemore get the gig) will come into the squad for flegler as the middle forward replacement. Even if not injured, He will get a couple weeks for that tackle (not unfairly as it was a frigging stupid and dangerous thing to do).

 

[theshed]

I still can’t believe that we let Macca walk with 1 year left and now we are in a position where Croft at 14 doesn’t even sound like an outlandish selection. If these idiots let him go due to some pipe dream Smith would be coming to the club, without a strong behind the scenes indication of doing so, then nothing has changed on the bad decision making front.

That 400K+ better end in some amazing unforeseen pick up before kick off or it’s more incompetence. The club needs a second row, hooker, centre, and fullback before round 1. If we get at least one of those I’d be feeling a lot better about the direction of the club.

I knew things were grim when @Big Pete was already voicing his concerns his off season, and he is right. I backed the Copley, and Mead signings as cultural moves but my perspective on those signings change significantly when they and Asiata are all we bring in, and we lose one of the only guys we had who could defend and be a voice of leadership when things weren’t going our way in Macca. The team is undeniably worse than last season.

I do expect improvement this year simply from Seibold not being around but I find it very hard to see us cracking the top 12 as it stands.

 

[Gaz]

I still can’t believe that we let Macca walk with 1 year left and now we are in a position where Croft at 14 doesn’t even sound like an outlandish selection. If these idiots let him go due to some pipe dream Smith would be coming to the club, without a strong behind the scenes indication of doing so, then nothing has changed on the bad decision making front.

That 400K+ better end in some amazing unforeseen pick up before kick off or it’s more incompetence. The club needs a second row, hooker, centre, and fullback before round 1. If we get at least one of those I’d be feeling a lot better about the direction of the club.

I knew things were grim when @Big Pete was already voicing his concerns his off season, and he is right. I backed the Copley, and Mead signings as cultural moves but my perspective on those signings change significantly when they and Asiata are all we bring in, and we lose one of the only guys we had who could defend and be a voice of leadership when things weren’t going our way in Macca. The team is undeniably worse than last season.

I do expect improvement this year simply from Seibold not being around but I find it very hard to see us cracking the top 12 as it stands.

Agree with all of that but confident Asiata is a plus.