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Both Tuivaiti and Tuilagi out, who replaces them?

Posted by LB on April 12, 2026 at 8:10pm

What was our strongest part of our team is now getting slimmer. With Tuilagi and Tuivaiti out, who do we see coming in for the week?

More likely we see Williams stay in the middle and Guymer moves to an edge. Then the two bench spots for Tuivaiti and Guymer would more likely be taken up by de Belin and Brown. Not sure if someone like Jezaiah Funa-Iuta will be ready either.

So Russell for Nanva is one change. De Belin will get Tuivaiti's spot more likely. So who replaces Tuilagi?

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- - - - EA > LB April 12, 2026 at 8:51pm
        
        Yea that's why I don't want to rush Lorenzo in. What is he actually going to do if the rest of the team is playing like this. All it will do is expose his weakness and hurt his confidence. In saying that he is not actually learning much playing with poop players in cup
        
        Randy Handlinger > EA April 12, 2026 at 9:07pm
        
        If they throw Lorenzo into this shitfight I may just walk away from this club.
        
        We would be eating our seedcorn in the worst way
        
        Sonic Boom > EA April 12, 2026 at 9:27pm
        
        100% the hype around him has gotten out of control. Even Moses is looking poor playing behind this pack. I would hold him back until we have no chance of playing finals because the fanbase will turn on him as soon as he has a poor game. Build the pack then throw him in. Volkman was good today.
        
        Randy Handlinger > Sonic Boom April 13, 2026 at 9:42am
        
        Fuck the fanbase. As you say, Moses is struggling with this pack. Lorenzo will get swallowed whole. We could wreck the developement of our best halves prospect in ages. We have identified him young and if we don't bring him on right, or lose him, it's all on us
  - EA > LB April 12, 2026 at 8:38pm
    
    Yea Volkman was alright. Hard to judge him when everyone as a team was shit
- Sonic Boom > EA April 12, 2026 at 9:22pm
  
  Yea it was prob one of Renzo's worst games at cup level. In saying that though Meni luke was pissing me off, so may times in good ball he would give it to J Nohra
  - EA > Sonic Boom April 13, 2026 at 11:51am
    
    Yea nsw cup is more depleted than the NRL team. Can't even call upon our best 2 JF players (Popo and Coinakis) into cup cause they are unavailable too.
- SuperEel 22 > EA April 13, 2026 at 8:37am
  
  I reckon he's persisiting with Volkman because Volkman can kick. With Moses' groin injury he can't do all the general play kicking and Volkman at least as a decent clearing kick on him.
  - Prof. Daz > SuperEel 22 April 13, 2026 at 8:42am
    
    The fact Volkman is goal kicking is strongly indicating they're managing a Moses injury. I would not want to be a half behind the current Eels pack, nor a half trying to run an attack where backs are flat and edge backrowers are kinda confused
    - SuperEel 22 > Prof. Daz April 13, 2026 at 12:02pm
      
      Moses has a groin injury. He confirmed it last week.