Round 16 - Roosters vs Storm

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Friday 29th June 2018
7:55pm
Adelaide Oval

Teams to be announced tomorrow afternoon. Should prove interesting...
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First game against Cooper Cronk. Going to be interesting
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Doubt NAS will play the kiwis flight was cancelled and now won't get back to Australia till Thursday
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Yep, NAS in no chance despite our prop crisis. Not worth the injury risk.
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Kind of an important game and of course it comes right after rep round and in Adelaide.
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Every game is important from here on. A win and we could sit equal 2nd. A loss and we could be equal 8th. It’s so tight...
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With the Roosters not getting their bye points yet we could fall 4 points back of 4th spot with a loss. Our schedule for the next month or so is pretty rough too.
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Yep, tough period coming up... I don’t see it easing up though after a month or so. Given our patchy year to date, there is no such thing as a ‘gimme’ in 2018 and we will need to be ‘on’ for each and every game.

R16 Away vs Roosters - Friday 29 June, 7.50pm - Adelaide Oval
R17 Home vs Dragons - Thursday 5 July, 7.50pm - AAMI Park
R18 Away vs Sea Eagles - Saturday 14 July, 5.30pm - Lottoland
R19 Away vs Warriors - Sunday 22 July, 2pm - Mt Smart
R20 Home vs Raiders - Saturday 28 July, 7.30pm - AAMI Park
R21 Away vs Rabbitohs - Friday 3 August, 7.50pm - ANZ
R22 Home vs Sharks - Sunday 12 August, 4.10pm - AAMI Park
R23 Home vs Eels - Friday 17 August, 7.50pm - AAMI Park
R24 Away vs Titans - Saturday 25 August, 5.30pm - CBUS
R25 Home vs Panthers - Friday 31 August, 7.50pm - AAMI Park
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If we can get healthy and make one or two tweaks to the starting 13 I think we can go on a run. I don't think there are any great teams this year that should worry us, it's just wishful thinking we're going to be different.
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I think NAS will play off the bench. They'll be flying business class - with all the medical treatment they receive these days, the flight won't take as much out as it would for Joe Public...
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yourhero wrote:Yep, tough period coming up... I don’t see it easing up though after a month or so. Given our patchy year to date, there is no such thing as a ‘gimme’ in 2018 and we will need to be ‘on’ for each and every game.

R16 Away vs Roosters - Friday 29 June, 7.50pm - Adelaide Oval
R17 Home vs Dragons - Thursday 5 July, 7.50pm - AAMI Park
R18 Away vs Sea Eagles - Saturday 14 July, 5.30pm - Lottoland
R19 Away vs Warriors - Sunday 22 July, 2pm - Mt Smart
R20 Home vs Raiders - Saturday 28 July, 7.30pm - AAMI Park
R21 Away vs Rabbitohs - Friday 3 August, 7.50pm - ANZ
R22 Home vs Sharks - Sunday 12 August, 4.10pm - AAMI Park
R23 Home vs Eels - Friday 17 August, 7.50pm - AAMI Park
R24 Away vs Titans - Saturday 25 August, 5.30pm - CBUS
R25 Home vs Panthers - Friday 31 August, 7.50pm - AAMI Park
You'd think the guys need to win six of the those remaining games to make the top four however the Storm managed to finish fourth in 2015 needing just 14 wins (on nine right now).

None of them are 'gimmes' as such, but you'd think the Storm should beat the Titans and the Eels and look for square ups against the Sharks and the Sea Eagles given what occurred in both those games this season.
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Named squad:

A few clouds after rep round with apparently Felise, Fox and Munster having ankle concerns, and of course a ? over NAS getting back in time.

1. Slater
2. Suli
3. Chambers
4. Scott
5. Fox
6. Munster
7. Jacks
8. Glasby
9. Smith
10. NAS
11. Kafusi
12. Hoffman
13. K. Bromwich

14. B. Smith
15. Welch
16. Stimson
17. Hughes

18. Young T (when does he leave?)
19. Kamikamica
20. P Kafusi
21. Blair
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22.Croft
23.Olam
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With B. Smith named and not mentioned in the injury report, I’m taking it that he is fine. Same with Olam
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Roosters named line-up

1. James Tedesco
2. Daniel Tupou
3. Latrell Mitchell
4. Mitchell Aubusson
5. Blake Ferguson
6. Luke Keary
7. Cooper Cronk
8. Siosiua Taukeiaho
9. Jake Friend (c)
10. Dylan Napa
11. Victor Radley
12. Nat Butcher
13. Isaac Liu

14. Lindsay Collins
15. Zane Tetevano
16. Kurt Baptiste
17. Matthew Ikuvalu

18. Sitilu Tupouniua
19. Paul Momirovski
20. Mitchell Cornish
22. Billy Smith
23. Frank-Paul Nuuausala
25. Jared Waerea-Hargreaves
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