Official Round 1 - Dogs vs Warriors - Consolidated Match Thread

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KiwiDog7

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Any chance of a late change? Pay did a few of them last year
 

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Happy with that team pretty much, round 1 game 1 !! Let’s just see how our boys go before we start predicting outcomes lol.. clean slate for all, it’s a new year.

Can’t wait, good luck boys!!
GO DOGGIES
 

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It’s obvious why Pay went for Hoppa at 1.
If we have a shit start like last year and immediately find ourselves on the back foot, he can consider himself gooone. Hoppa is the safe and correct option to start the year. Meaney will definitely get his go
 

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If Rhyse Martin was a passionate country kid like Elliot or well mannered like JMK, he’d be starting at lock. This isn’t high school Pay.
 

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Yeah one good game, problem was he couldn’t do it consistently which is why we ended up with Mbye as kicker
There a classic bit of selective memory loss. At the time Holland wasn't playing well enough to guarantee a 1st grade spot and you can't have your #1 kicker dropping in and out of the team on a weekly basis. Since then he has solidified his spot and can be relied upon to be there from one week to the next. Hence his choice as #1 kicker. He is hardly a bad goal kicker with a close to 80% conversion rate.

A bit of context, who's the Warriors goal kicker? No Luke this week, so it's likely to be Harris, who misses ~30% more often than Holland does.

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It’s obvious why Pay went for Hoppa at 1.
If we have a shit start like last year and immediately find ourselves on the back foot, he can consider himself gooone. Hoppa is the safe and correct option to start the year. Meaney will definitely get his go
My thoughts exactly. This is the best solid squad that pay can come up with. We can experiment with Meaney at FB later on in the season.
 

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If Rhyse Martin was a passionate country kid like Elliot or well mannered like JMK, he’d be starting at lock. This isn’t high school Pay.
Rhyse Martin was born in Cairns, raised in the Whitsundays and he seems very well mannered based on the times that I have spoken to him

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Whinge city alright, but that's the kennel for ya. Don't really know who Pay could have picked to make the team stronger. Refer above to horse and kiwidogs comments above, pretty spot on. Everyone sooking about Montoya, who would you have in for him? As someone else said he had a shit season last yr coz hoppa was rubbish at centre. Only thing I can question is breaking up Dutch and Reimis but all I can put that down to is not sure how Montoya and Crichton would go together defensively but overall I think Pay has picked a good team
 

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I’m trying to work out Warriors team because we have a clear edge on bench

He’s picked a specialist hooker, two props and an outside back

His starting props don’t have a good engine (Paasi and Bunty)

I really think we can pumped them
 

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Montoya..... must have a sex tape of Dean Pay!? How he gets in the team I don’t know

Also looks like we’ll be going up in 4’s again this year with no Martin
Totally stupid post. Just who would you have in the centres? Holland kicks at about 85% so missing nothing there.
Martin is way behind the other back rowers at this stage, and his omission was predicted by most on this site.
 

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I don’t get the R Martin uproar we all knew he was on the outer a couple months back

He obviously hasn’t out trained his competition and his trial was garbage ( sin bin)

You have to score tries before kicking goals
 

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Solid team though I don’t see the surprise in the backline that Jackson was hinting at. I don’t see why we broke up the smith/Holland pairing unless we were blooding Meaney on the wing and moving smith to center. Meaney not being named in either side won’t do him any good. Maybe there will be a late change. One can hope
 

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Montoya getting mowed down by Russell Packer in open space should have been enough for him to never get another game
 

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I don’t get the R Martin uproar we all knew he was on the outer a couple months back

He obviously hasn’t out trained his competition and his trial was garbage ( sin bin)

You have to score tries before kicking goals
Reckon it has something to do with only signing for 1 year as well. Pay and co probably thinking he hasnt committed to us so bought CHN and want to make Rhyse work harder for it. I honestly cant see any other NRL coach dropping Martin from their team ...or choosing Elliott, Faulolo or structuring JMK in the team over Martin. There were plenty of options to include Martin but Pay hasn't. Hope the team doesn't suffer for it....but willing to give Pay his dues.
 

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Montoya..... must have a sex tape of Dean Pay!? How he gets in the team I don’t know

Also looks like we’ll be going up in 4’s again this year with no Martin
Followed the team for a long time have you? Big tip for you,there is other kickers and one of them has kicked 20+ straight.Dont panic as I’m pretty sure he will kick one or two per game.
 
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