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Team list NYC

Posted by colin hussey on February 28, 2017 at 6:29pm

1. Anthony Layoun

2. Haze Dunster

3. Tuimavave Afualo

4. Noel Aukafolau

5. John Fonua

6. Dean Matterson (c)

7. Troy Dargan

8. Sean Keppie

9. Denzal Tonise (c) *

10. Frank Sale

11. Filia Utoikamanu

12. Salese Faingaa

13. Steve Dresler

Interchange

14. Reed Mahoney

15. Tangi Hokai *

16. Dylan Clifford

17. Oregon Kafusi

Reserves

18. Kamren Cryer

19. Mitch Butfield

20. Dom Murphy

21. Beni Valu

22. Emosi Alamoti

23. Tomoci Vatubuli

Of note the eels gallery page only has 10 players shown, here, and only two named in the squad, anyone know what's going on??

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Ham Sammich February 28, 2017 at 7:00pm

Interesting fact our 2-5 are all still eligible for SG ball, as is Utoikamanu and Kaufusi. And finally we only have 6 20 year olds in this team.

Outside of the 2 in the team none of those players are eligible for the 20's this year. It is very disappointing that the club hasn't released even a list of the squad.
- 1Eyed Eel > Ham Sammich February 28, 2017 at 10:04pm
  
  What makes that even more "interesting" is that this age group were National Champions as Under 16s.
  
  I reckon there might only be three players from that Harold Matts team that won nationals.
  
  I'm still unsure of throwing SG Ball boys into NYC this early. If they're good enough and winning that's fine, but if you get an NYC team getting thumped every week, I don't think it's great for creating that winning culture in your club.
colin hussey February 28, 2017 at 9:55pm

Its certainly weird to me that they have 10 players listed for the NYC, yet can only pick two of them. The club can pick a team of 23 players yet have nothing about the vast majority of them in the eels gallery/profile page a bit poor for me.

So with only 2 of the 10 eligible for the NYC this year I gather that is the under 20's what happens to them?
- Ham Sammich > colin hussey February 28, 2017 at 10:27pm
  
  They haven't updated the profiles. 8 out of those 10 are no longer eligible to play NYC. I wouldn't take any notice of the NYC profiles currently, they mean nothing. It is a massive dissapointment that we don't have an NYC squad named and only 5 days away from their opening match.
Ham Sammich February 28, 2017 at 10:26pm

We do have a couple of players set to come back into this team. The titans winger, Dane Aukafolau, Dion Solaese are either currently injured or up a grade. I believe the Titans winger (Greg Leuleusiao?) is due back next week, Auva'a is also back next week so Aukafolau drops back down.

I expect only Afualo and maybe Fonua to be in the team when we're at full strength.
colin hussey February 28, 2017 at 10:50pm

I would suggest that the players also would be disappointed as well