Experts pick their current NSW's team
I skimmed through the NSW's teams the so called experts would put out and they have either 1 or no Parra players in the 17. I think this proves that we're a team built without superstars and even if a couple players went missing due to suspension or injury, we have the replacements to do a fine job. I think this is what you call having a system and not a team based on 2-3 superstars who you expect to bring home the bacon.
Kudos to BA for having us on top of the ladder.
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You can't blame JH for the team being shite. He was a marquee player had 0 support or close to it. I just remember the overs we were paying for players as well as bringing has-been's. JH wasn't eating up the salary cap. The players around him and the coaches (Anderson, Kearney, Stuart) for about 5-6 years were diabolical. Most of the players that played for us between 2010-2016 never played NRL football again after they left.
The current squad has been coming together since 2016.
Arrivals:
2016: Gutho, Jenko
2017: Nathan Brown, Mitch Moses
2018: Kane Evans (started shining in 2019), emergence of quality juniors in: Kaufusi, Mahoney, Nuikore and Ray Stone.
2019: Waqa, Fergo, Lane, Junior Paulo, Maika Sivo and emergence of Dylan Brown
2020: RCG and Matto.
That's pretty much our starting 17 these days and it's taken 5 long years to put together. It's only this year we are looking like genuine contenders. Last year we were pretenders getting bashed badly on 6 occasions. A contender might get bashed once or twice during a whole season but we had too many instances of spitting out teeth.
What I put down as out greatest aspect as a club as a club is clearing out the front office. The NSW gaming commision did a mighty fine job telling big Max to clean out and up the shop. No more factions and infighting. Giving the coach all the support he needs, reeling in the type of players he wants.
The Bulldogs should take note that it will take them at least 4-5 years to clean out their sh*t roster-wise but if they don't sort out their front office they are fecked permanantly. Their situation is completely identical to ours.
BA cleared out all the dickheads: Norman, Hayne, Kenny Edwards, Tony Williams and a couple lazies in Vave and Matagi and we have players who put the team first and think twice of their actions that might have repercussions to avoid embarrasing themselves and the club. We're currently being run as proffesionally as the Roosters and Storm.
Rant over :)
P.S Big cheers to the Panthers for doing a great job being our number 1 feeder club whilst chipping in RCG and Waqa's paychecks :P
Couldn't agree more Parra Fan.
Good points mate although i think junior might get a crack this year, and Reed with QLD.
I'd be very surprised if Junior didn't make Origin. He's gotta be the in-form prop of the comp and Freddy loves him.
Reed might be close, but he's got some competition ahead of him. I think Ben Hunt will be starting hooker, if not, Friend will be. Everyone reckons Harry Grant will give it a nudge too.
Hoping Gutho and Matterson get a run at some stage soon.
Friend has been playing pretty poorly for the Roosters. QLD can't seriously think Hunt is the solution at hooker. I can kind of understand the Harry Grant hype. But it'd be a really tough ask of him to play Origin after 18 first grade games.
Friend's performance was crap last night, but he has been pretty good for the majority of the season so far from what I've seen. It really depends where Kevvie needs the experience in his team. Hooker has become such an important role, I would assume experience is needed in the position is needed. Ben Hunt is the incumbent QLD and his last two performances at hooker have been good and the dragons have started winning...
If I was to put money on it, I think Hunt is hooker. But, the form (QLD) hooker in the competition right now is definitely Reed. I think Grant still has a bit more to prove, the Queenslanders just cream themselves over the fact he's Smith's protege...
We'll have 1 or 2 in there this year with more to follow next.
The list by the experts is all over the place. Few had any eels players while at least one had 3, they being Gutho, JP & Matto. None had MM while a couple had RCG, most primarilly on the bench though.
From my perspective its dumb at this point of the season to looking to SOO which is at the end of season, with the chicakdees going down last night, teams will change a lot as will the SOO selections before the seasons end.
They should be loyal to the players who won the series last year I think that's fair.
I'm surprised how many want Latrell Mitchell in the team, he's a hot head, unpredictable and unreliable, and lazy IMO.
M Jenkins would be ahead of Latrell for a centre position.
I watch Freddy and the eighth every Wednesday, don't ask me why lol Freddy does his team of the week and going off that I wouldn't be surprised to see Matto, RCG, Paulo and a Smokey Lane
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