With Mahoney likely to be out for the rest of the year there is an opportunity to experiment with the hooker role.
The effectiveness of Mahoney as an 80 minute player is highly debatable and there's a case for his injuries coming from fatigue. A number of teams are playing two hookers with success and changing it up after 20-30 (eg Melb with Smith/Grant and Raiders with Hodgson/Starling).
Mahoney's injury is an opportunity for us to try similar-with Will Smith starting and bringing Lussick on after 20-30. Smith is tough enough to do the hard stuff early and there's some spark in Lussicks dummy half runs that could prove very handy against fatigued forwards.
Beyond that I'd drop Opacic for Marata (we won most if not all our games with Marata there earlier) and switch D Brown and Gutherson in attack. Our up and in defence obviously doesn't work against good teams so I'd be showing Kidwell the door quick smart as well
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So Opa has been off since his brother passed away. Marata was playing Fergo side not Sivo if I recall. And you uwant him dropped. Waqa only lifted his game a fraction in the past 3-4 weeks. Bit coincidental that Opa plays bad and Waqa looks good so lets drop Opa who has been solid all yeah
Smiths service from dummy half isn't good enough, its one thing to bring him on into the position for a little while but another to start him. If you are going with two hookers than lussick and roache would be better but roache is still recovering from injury and isn't in the bubble anyway.
Lussick all the way.
I like Will Smith but not at Hooker, he doesn't pass off the ground. Instead he stands first then takes a step. It makes a massive difference to gaining momentum. Whereas Lussick is a bona-fide NRL hooker. We don't lose too much with Lussick replacing Mahoney.
Smith is shite...fullstop
Oh Marty
I don't like you
🤔the queen may ask you to leave 🤣🤣
I kno yu is in Lov Carlo but he is bad, he ran around like a headless chook v Rabbits
cmon you could see that mate
As for other changes however, we DEFINITELY need to make some changes. Dylan Brown is wasted on an edge. By far his greatest asset is running. I'd shift Dylan to Fullback and Gutho to 5/8.
Gutho would have no problem at all ball playing, kicking and defending in the halves. He'd also get his share of ball meaning we'd have two genuine points of attack.
Dylan at fullback hanging around the middle looking for offloads, providing genuine speed on the sweep play. Sure he'd make some errors but given what we're currently tossing up what have we got to lose?
I like it.....but it won't happen
One of my mates suggested Dylan to fullback last week and its something I have never considered, it was a surprising suggestion and I thought it had plenty of merit. He has shown he has enough speed to play the position and he is defensively good. Communication might be an issue.
I've been wondering the exact same thing about doing the switcherroo with Dylan too Muttman. Only problem if he has never played there, we need to have patience it could be worse before it gets better.
he ever played there ?
Guts is so obviously burnt out it's sad
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