Round 17 squad.

[rexest]

Round 18 squad.

Mitsubishi Electric Bulldogs coach Steve Folkes has made several changes for this Sunday's clash with the Brisbane Broncos.

Daniel Holdsworth returns from injury, slotting into five-eight, while Arana Taumata moves to halfback. Ben Roberts moves to the bench with Aaron Groom returning to NSW Cup.

Reni Maitua will return from injury at lock after missing last night's 34-30 loss against South Sydney and Gary Warburton moves back to NSW Cup. Chris Armit returns from a lengthy injury replacing Brad Morrin on the interchange bench.
1. BRENT CRISP
2. HAZEM EL MASRI
3. DARYL MILLARD
4. TIM WINITANA
5. HEKA NANAI
6. Daniel Holdsworth
7. Arana Taumata
8. JARRAD HICKEY
9. COREY HUGHES
10. FRED BRIGGS
11. SONNY BILL WILLIAMS
12. ANDREW RYAN
13. Reni Maitua

Interchange:
14. Chris Armit
15. LEE TE MAARI
16. JOHN KITE
17. Ben Roberts

 

[bLaQDoG..]

Not bad tbh.

I love what Folksey has done to the halves. Putting Holdsworth as number 6 and Taumata as number 7 - moving Roberts to the bench.

Not a fan of Briggs or Nanai though - not that we have much of a choice though..

 

[Moe]

Roberts relegated for his brain snap. Strong bench. Finally no more morrin. And now everyone gets to see roberts at Hooker. Great to see Kite keep his spot.

 

[bulldogchook]

ben roberts should have been punted all the way back to NZ

 

[Kingi]

That Bench Looks strong

It will be interesting to see how AJ and DJ play together.

Broncos look back 2 thier strongest with the return of Lockyer and Wallace.

I hope we can just compete.

 

[B-Train]

Big calls by Folkesy.

For those who say he doesn't try anything and only sticks with those he loves, well he dropped Morrin for Kite and left Taumata in the starting side for Roberts.

I think Roberts will be dynamic as a hooker and perhaps this will be the reminder that he needs to get his form back on track. Good looking team, Briggs deserves his spot, he played well last night, and with Armit and Reni back, we have alot more firepower.

Warburton played well last night and was unlucky to lose out to Lee T who was quite poor last night I thought.

 

[Moe]

That Bench Looks strong

It will be interesting to see how AJ and DJ play together.

Broncos look back 2 thier strongest with the return of Lockyer and Wallace.

I hope we can just compete.

AJ DJ :whacky: :whacky: :whacky:

 

[bLaQDoG..]

AJ DJ :whacky: :whacky: :whacky:

AJ = Arana Taumata

DJ = Holdsworth

Somehow i figured AJ = Taumata lol

 

[pillow]

Hopefully DJ can organise us a little better this week and let AJ play his natural running game

 

[Kingi]

AJ DJ :whacky: :whacky: :whacky:

lol...goes well.

I hope holdsworth can steer some driection with AJ doing most of the running.

 

[Moe]

AJ = Arana Taumata

DJ = Holdsworth

Somehow i figured AJ = Taumata lol

lol, yeah i know, i just though it was whacky! :whacky:

Image if they did a double rap-around play.

Hughes to AJ, passes it onto DJ, who quickly offloads to AJ, straight back to DJ! then DJ flicks back to AJ who runs away for a try!!!

 

[Contender]

A couple surprises, look forward to see how it pans out.

 

[w00t]

Wouldn't have dropped Groom...if Holdsworth had to be played i'd rather have Roberts in NSW Cup for his woeful brain explosion and groom on the bench.

We dnt have too many attacking options, lets just hope Taumata can bomb (we all kno holdsworth cant)

 

[Mash]

Not the side i was expecting.
But very interesting.

 

[=Sarah=]

poor ben.. yeah he had a brain snap but i think he went ok @ halfback tbh...

but im a little happy with this team... i wish we didnt have patten out still....

 

[bLaQDoG..]

lol, yeah i know, i just though it was whacky! :whacky:

This calls for a banner on Sunday tbh..

Hmmm - DJAJ? (Chicken in arabic lol )

 

[Horse]

Good team i like it.

 

[rexest]

The forward pack looks alot stronger, Holdsworth will give them more direction since he should get more go forward then he has in his recent games.

 

[Timmah.]

Another promising side, let's hope injuries hold out during the week. Pity they welcome back Locky and Wallace

 

[joejoe]

i like it. i like it alot. thats the best we will have all year imo with patten the only one to come back and i can see mllard dropping out for crespo