So ive been thinking about all the obvious issues Parra has in their current roster and considering what changes could be made in order to improve these issues for 2019
The biggest issues the team has in my opinion are
● Attitude, Effort and Consistancy
● Cultural inbalances
● Lack of Size and creativity in the forwards
In order to try to improve these issues in our roster i looked at who is available for purchase at the end of this season and unfortunately there is not much out there worth buying, but i decided to build a hypothetical team anyway with players that are available and who may realistically consider signing with Parra
Here is my hypothetical roster for 2019 that i think would help improve some of the issues we are having. Not solve the problems entirely but possibly might improve the situation
1. Clint Gutherson
2. Bevan French
3. Michael Jennings
4. Jarryd Hayne
5. Josh Mansour
6. Blake Austin
7. Mitch Moses
8. Junior Paulo
9. Will Smith
10. Tim Mannah
11. Ken Edwards
12. Brad Takarangi
13. Nathan Brown
14. Tepai Moeroa
15. Manu Mau
16. Shannon Boyd
17. Daniel Alvaro
Issue #1
Attitude and Effort Upgrades:
● Gutherson back in leading by example
● Blake Austin In Norman Out
Austins got some talent but the main thing i like is hes always having a solid go. Cant knock his effort and will to win. Cant say the same for Norman. I also think Austins play style fits Moses's more than Normans does. Moses is energetic, so is Austin, Normans is lazy sometimes hes play style is too bi polar for me.
● Josh Mansours efforts are always strong and is an upgrade in tallent too over Hoffman
Issue #2
Culture rebalancing:
● Gutherson back in the side
● Blake Austin in Norman out
● Shannon Boyd - Tall + 122kg in Matagi Out
Issue #3
A bigger stronger and more creative forward pack:
PROPS:
● Junior Paulo In Matagi Out
● Shannon Boyd In Gangli Dangli Evans Out
- Power Upgraded
- Talent Upgraded
- Size & Height Upgraded
Junior Paulo has the size, power, and ball playing ability and offload to cause massive problems for oppositions
Shannon Boyd has the Size, height, and power
Both props draw 3 or 4 defenders every single tackle and wear out opposition defenders due to how heavy and hard they are to tackle
BACK ROW:
Takarangi & Ken Edwards to start the game to get our attacking creativity going and help get us on the front foot and lead on the score board. They would provide that creativity assistance when in attacking range and they also offer some strong go forward and ball carries
Manu and Tepai off the bench used as impact forwards will be able to exert an extremely high amount of energy in their carries while charging at the line since they dont have to play as many minutes as in the past as they will be be switching with Edwards and Takarangi (The creative forwards)
This concoction of back row forwards would create a sort of 3Dimensional multi pronged attacking back row
Creativity Instinct and Aggresion to start the game with Edwards & Taka before switching to EXTREME Aggression and structured footy with safer ball carriers in Manu & Tepai whos mission is to simply bring high energy impact off the bench and target tired lazy halves when charging at the line and not have to worry about conserving energy due to playing less minutes. This would mean they could just go 100% Aggressive. This would also be a big help to Mannah and Alvaro too when Mau and Tepai come on for a short powerful burst because lets face it, Mannah and Alvaro dont exactly bend the line back much
This would completely throw opposition defences off balance in my opinion and it would be a nightmare of a forward pack to defend against as the dynamic would keep shifting
What changes would YOU make to my 17 man side and why?
Replies
I'd get rid of Moses as well. He is a show pony with no brains, just like the pass over the side line and all his side ways running and his stupid remarks to the reffs.
Moses is a sook but a talented one. His proved that to be true during his departure from tigers and his playing with us. I didn’t see exactly what he did to be sent off but two weeks in a row is frckn disgusting. Everyone here bagged the shit out of sandow for shot like that...Corey no better. But where is our packs mentality?
Moses was the closest thing to us getting a try yesterday.
Piss Norman off.
Moses and Smith r the only real creative players we have. At least they were having a go. Ole Dozy just downed tools & clocked off.
And being dumbarse enough to get sent off again made sure we had no chance!
There was no chance of coming back at that stage.
Clearly frustration got the better of him. Yes he needs to be smarter than that.
But he is the only creative player we have.
Hayne
French
Jennings
Taka
Hoffman
Norman
Moses
Brown
Marora
Edwards
Mannah
Pritchard
Vave
Bench
Smith
Torepo
alvaro
Scott Gower Evans mau