Parramatta coach Brad Arthur has dumped strike winger Maika Sivo as part of a reshuffle designed to ignite his side’s stuttering season.
Arthur has gone with a new halves partnership for Saturday’s clash against North Queensland, with Daejarn Asi to come in at five-eighth alongside halfback Dylan Brown.
Rookie Blaize Talagi will revert back to the centres with Bailey Simonsson being moved to the wing for Sivo, whose surprise omission is a certain sign Arthur is becoming fed-up with his side’s modest and inconsistent results this season.
Parramatta have won two from five games this season and sit in 14th place. Parramatta are desperate to secure victory at CommBank Stadium this Saturday after last weekend’s embarrassing 41-8 loss to Canberra at GIO Stadium.
Sivo only logged 10 runs for 57 metres against the Raiders, although he did score both Parramatta’s tries.
He scored a try the previous week against Wests Tigers and ran for 94 metres.
Sivo has scored 90 tries in his 105 NRL games, having debuted back in 2019.
He hasn’t scored fewer than 13 tries in a season during his entire career.
Despite playing at home, Parramatta are $2.30 outsiders, according to TAB, with North Queensland $1.62 favourites.
—Dean Ritchie
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Ofahangaue should be next
Really? Out of all players him? He was alright against Canberra.
Bro his done nothing since he came
He was one of our best forwards in the last two games. Have another look.
Besides other problems he could barely walk ok last week tho
Man looking at the stats of Ethyn Martin, put that kid on the wing in NSW cup and he will add something in the future. 246 metres, 8 tackle breaks but 3 errors. Just get him on the wing
I 100% agree. Lots of people on here said he has the potential to be a fullback but that is a long way in the future. Let's him cook on the wing
So I played like a dope but he was far from the issue , the bush coach and his lack of footy nous ok display again , Sanders ethier.
I dare say he's just injured. If he plays cup it's an axing
He's hardly been able to move the last two weeks. Looks like he's running in treacle.
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