Xerri may even play this week if the Fox ain’t fit. I say that because there is no way Taaffe plays fullback on Good Friday. He is too much of a liability under the high ball at the moment.
Fox comes straight back onto left wing if fit. The question then is does Tracey go to fullback or does...
I only caught the last 10 minutes but geez Lipoi Hopoi’s stats really pop. 18 runs for 221 metres, 109 metres of which were post-contact metres.
Was he really that good or are they empty-type stats? It does also say that 53 of those metres were from a kick-return, but still.
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Mann stifled our attack in the last 15 minutes by taking hit ups on tackle 4. Brought back Tolman vibes. It is his duty as the ball-playing lock to shift the ball in those situations.
Bit over all the talk about our weak middles. It is what it is. So long as the middles hold up defensively we can be competitive. A lot of teams rely on their wingers and centres for yardage (Cronulla, St George) and we should do the same. Forwards can conserve their energy for defence.
It may also mean we are all in for Luai. I think Burton’s contract is tradeable if too much money ends up being invested in 2 halves. Someone will definitely take him for close to his contract amount.
This has to happen. As someone mentioned on here, he played in the front row coming through in the lower grades.
He is the only one capable on our current roster that can become our forward leader with his defence, and the forward leader must play in the middle.
A lot of edge players move to...