That said, I wanted to give a shout out to Feleti, who in my mind was the only player in that early stage of the game who took it upon himself to try and spark the side. It wasn't so much any one particularly fantastic piece of work, but he went looking for the ball and backed himself a couple of times and we got important results from those pieces of play that set us up for some of our point scoring attacks.
I truly hope that is encouraged, and while he may no longer be the "main man" I would love Feleti to be asked to do more in attack. There will be sides who will mark up on Jarryd far better than the Pennies did tonight - don't think the Dragons will ever give him that much room to work with or fail to mark up properly on his outside supports. And in those circumstances, we are going to desperately need more of that Feleti spark.
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But can I just say that Feleti, or Hot Mateo as he is more affectionatey known, is also a favourite of mine.
While he is a potent attacking weapon what I love most about him is that he is Parramatta through and through. He loves our Club and is always a team member.
I am going to be devastated when he has our last game for us. Hopefully he returns to us!
im really impressed that he hasnt turned it up and we all know how much he loves parra
this one will come back to bite us big time!
Has played his reduced, traditional lock role well this year.