1. Joash Papaili
2. Brian Kelly
3. Jordan Samrani
4. Sean Russell
5. Josh Addo-Carr
6. Ronald Volkman
7. Mitchell Moses (c)
8. Luca Moretti
9. Tallyn Da Silva
10. Junior Paulo
11. Kelma Tuilagi
12. Jack Williams
13. Jack De Belin
Interchange:
14. Dylan Walker
15. Saxon Pryke
16. Toni Mataele
17. Charlie Guymer
18. Apa Twiddle
19. Teancum Brown
Reserves:
20. Harrison Edwards
21. Araz Nanva
22. Jonah Pezet
INs: Harrison Edwards, Araz Nanva, Jonah Pezet
OUTs: None
Referee: Peter Gough
On the back of a gutsy comeback win over the Cowboys, coach Jason Ryles has named the same 19-man squad for Magic Round. Hooker Ryley Smith remains sidelined with a sternum injury while Jonah Pezet has served a ban incurred in NSW Cup but can't force his way into the team with Ronald Volkman in superb form.
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Well fck
Harry Grant please tell me we have a plan for the mentioned he's the catalyst.
But if we aren't up to it in the hey diddle diddle I'm seeing 6 again xxxxxxxxxx
Thats where there coming after us and I see we are starting junior this week after last weeks experiment didn't really go to plan.Tuivaiti and Iongi back after the bye that's going to be heaven sent.No disrespect to Joash either he's filled in admirably.
I can already see it. Stefano runs and leaves 2 on the floor. Quick play the ball. Grant scoots behind the ruck for a break, gets to Papalii and finds Hughes in support to score under the posts. The commentator might as well start practicing commentating this scenario for the gameday lol.
We will concede a couple like these for sure.
We need to focus on scoring ourselves, Storm still have a brittle underbelly.
Don't do it EA Paulo's starting in the middle this week that's the matchup he has to win with and without the ball.
Coryn, what plan are you referring to (which didn't go to plan apparently). Paulo came off the bench about 20 mins in and played remainder of match, blocking a FG at the death. Ran 100m+. Are you saying that Paulo plan did not go to plan? Suspecting Paulo will drop from start to bench a day before
Horses for courses with regards to Paulo he's being used as a chess piece at the moment with regards to our middles.It worked against the Cows but I feel this week we've had to rearrange his usage.
It didn't go to plan because when he was off the park we got ran through and he JRs hands were tied he had to play the rest of the way.NQs errors saved Paulo if they'd held the ball I fear the mentioned goes to crap.You obviously think different ?
Coryn, the Eels led 10-6 when Paulo came on. I agree it was looking pretty loose at that point but the problem was less the middle of the park and the Eels edges and kick return defense.
Also, are we sure JR's hand was forced on Paulo then playing the game out? I think that was the plan. First, because Paulo has always been able to play 50-60 mins. Second, I think JR is still searching for how to start well. Third, it's what they got out of Maetele/Moretti and Pryke/DBL: former ran the ball, latter tackled. And I think that was an interchange plan to get Paulo back to run forest run, and he responded with 18 runs for 172m. All the talk was Taumololo as the damaging runner etc but he had 11 runs for 123m.
I'm just saying I don't think it a coincidence to see such a sharp divide in roles run vs tackle amongst the middles, and Paulo being given a clear role as a result? Though for all the attention on Paulo, Maetele comparatively out-performed everyone: 20 tackles, 119m w/ 46 post-contact, in just 29 mins.
See this where I've always thought different defensively I see alot of edge issues start from the middle if your passive and losing the collision leaving bodies on the ground your edges get exposed.You can cover this up with guys who have good lateral agility but the edge defensive issues imo they get shown up more so when the attack has momentum in the middle everyone especially hookers and halves get the armchair ride.
This is spot on coryn, if the edge defence was the culprit opposing teams wouldn't bother attacking the middle first they would just go after the edges early. Remember when the eels had some level of success against the panthers and performed better than usual against the storm a few years ago, it was because they attacked their edges avoiding the middle where both those teams were strong.
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