1. Joash Papaili
2. Brian Kelly
3. Will Penisini
4. Sean Russell
5. Josh Addo-Carr
6. Ronald Volkman
7. Mitchell Moses (c)
8. Luca Moretti
9. Ryley Smith
10. Junior Paulo
11. Charlie Guymer
12. Jack Williams
13. Dylan Walker
Interchange:
14. Tallyn Da Silva
15. Saxon Pryke
16. Toni Mataele
17. Jack De Belin
18. Kelma Tuilagi
19. Lorenzo Talataina
Reserves:
20. Araz Nanva
21. Jezaiah Funa-luta
22. Teancum Brown
INs: Jezaiah Funa-luta, Kelma Tuilagi, Sean Russell
OUTs: None
Referee: Peter Gough
Centre Sean Russell and back-rower Kelma Tuilagi are both named to return from concussion in a double boost for the Eels. Araz Nanva and Teancum Brown are the men to make way from the squad.
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Pryke is 2 years old than him. So if you compare them when they were 19 year olds, I would take Popo.
Popo must be still injured as he is not playing cup. I recon there was a typo when they wrote the team list with Max Tupou
Mataele was folding blokes for fun last week. He has put on some serious size since his debut against the knights. If he can get his fitness right he reminds me of what Marata did for us before he left.
Gucci, what weight was Mataele playing at when he debuted against Knights? Listed as 188cm and 108kg and just don't recall him being anywhere near that. He looked like a unit and his contact in defense was excellent, maybe showing the benefit of increased mass?
Unsure what his playing weight was last year but it's clear he has had some serious body recomp in the off season. Just looks more solid. Similar to TDS, he looks to have put on so much more mass especially in the quads. Let's hope Pryke can follow suit. Another 5-8kgs of lean mass and he will both be a tackling machine and bend the line in contact. Toni just needs to build up his endurance, he doesn't have enough to be a out and out first grader each week yet.
I think that was last year's stat's. Looks a lot bigger than last year. I can't recall him being that big!
Jersey Flegg have not completed named their squad but currently Bamblett, Talagi and Petrus are the 3 SG ball players that have been promoted. There are 3 spots remaining to be named. Hopefully Koina and a couple of other Ball players are filling those spots. Disappointed Bamblett has been named at 6. Do not rate him at 6 at all. He attacks like a pure fullback and he cannot defend in the front line well. Started SG ball on fire and was quiet poor towards the end of the season.
Coinakis has returning from suspension and with Russel and Richie Pensini back this week, Alamadine has gone down to JF as well.
Richie P on the wing? Has he played on the wing before? Is this a trial to see if he can potentially develop into a winger moving forward?
Yea he played on the wing a couple times in JF when he was 18 years old. Thats when he got promoted from SG ball when we won the comp in 2023.
Actually is smart as we have nothing at Wing if anyone goes down so why not get Richie ready is asked to come in?
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