Katoa hookerJmk won’t play . Might be out for the first two weeks I believe . Could be 1 week though , not 100%.
Averillo is touch n go most likely will play .
Napa and rfm will play and I believe will be on the bench .
Pretty much the same side as the trial but with Averillo in .
I agree, first game back, loads of nervous energy to perform and reflect their pre-season, home advantage is huge particularly fans up in Newcastle.The only reason I give Newcastle a chance is because they're playing at home but even so we should be too good for them. The only downside to this game is that Thommo won't be there to make Klemmer his bitch so we need Hetho to step up.
cheers dudeJmk won’t play . Might be out for the first two weeks I believe . Could be 1 week though , not 100%.
Averillo is touch n go most likely will play .
Napa and rfm will play and I believe will be on the bench .
Pretty much the same side as the trial but with Averillo in .
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6 tries, I agree.I think we'll be the better prepared out of the 2 teams. Dogs by 6
Yeah pretty much spot on .Been told The team will resemble the starting side for the sharks trial except the interchange off course
expect cotric to line up at centre in attack and drop back on last tackle in defence for kick returns
averillo will play 6 if (IF) he passes his contact test
I’ve highlighted if so I don’t get attacked if he isn’t named
expect rfm and toomaga on the bench
Napa is a definite in the 17
jmk racing the clock and the utility position (14) is still undecided
Some believe vaping positively impacts performance...more a club thing, they would be monitoring things and if the players aren't hitting the right numbers you'd like to think they would step in and put a stop to it.What is TKs thoughts on Wakeham (or any of our players for that matter) vaping? A couple of drinks here or there isn’t the end of the world for me, but smoking/ vaping impacts your lung capacity, no? You can exercise off the extra calories of a vodka soda pretty easily, but fucking your lungs because you can’t lay off the vapes/ Argileh/ etc directly fucks your cardio.
Wakeham played like 10 minutes at hooker last year and stepped back to pass the ball behind Tolman and directly to Jake. 10/10 hooking performance.With Jmk out. Katoa is obviously the starting hooker but can he play 80? I doubt he can. Very interesting to see who plays at 14 because they will have to play hooker for at least 20 minutes if not more. Our options are thin. Besides Katoa and jmk I don't think anyone else in the entire squad has even played a single minute at nrl level as a hooker.