Big Pete
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Mal must really have a lot of faith in Thaiday and Myles to make meters up the middle.
So they picked a team assuming the referees arent going to do their job properly? has there been a more idiotic team selection criteria before in the history of the game?
if inglis doesn't get involved then dynasty is over
Hannant is overweight.
Shillington is out of form.
Harrison is out of form.
Parker is on fire. Papalli is on fire.
It's a no brainer
Absolutely.
Anyway, size wise, Papalii is 110 kg, not exactly small, T'eo 106 kg, Thaiday's about 108 kg, Scott 108 kg, Myles 105 kg,
For NSW, Fifita is a 116kg lump, Gallen 104 kg (while he remains in one piece), and Woods 109 kg.
For mine, we not only have the size, strength, speed and combinations to match them up the middle and on the edges, but everywhere else as well.
Add to the fact these guys are all pretty mobile and have good footwork at the line.
I think if we can counter an obvious early onslaught from NSW, we'll be in good shape to carve them up later in the game.
Mal wasn't happy with lack of aggression in our tackling in game 1
And also we let NSW off the hook from our poor kick chase team.
The way I see it with the team selected, we are going to utilise Smiths, Cronks and Thurstons strong kicking game, and pin NSW with a faster kick chase team and smash them with heavy defense when they are trying to ruck out from the try line.
If this is what Mal is thinking, I think Qld are going to smash them by a very handsome score!
The NSW team of today is far more settled, confident and competitive than the one from Game 2 2010. A big blowout win by QLD will surprise me. The last time NSW won Game 2 in Brisbane was in 2000, the game where Joey came of the bench when the Blues were behind 10-6 and blew QLD off the park as the Blues scored 3 tries in 5 minutes.
I think it's also a question of how well NSW handles an early Maroons onslaught ... Mr Gallen-Pig.
There are only 3 NSW players who IMO are serious threats: Lewis and Dugan, and maybe Merrin if he gets a chance to offload.