Round 17 v Dragons

[Mattpoet]

In honour of this I will run into someone with my head down and pop an offload up to my hooker..

brilliant

[steaming stormer]

Agree yourhero. In a low scoring game; anything can happen.

it is Cameron v Gareth really.

no, it's 17 v 17... our outs are primarily in the backs, St George in the forwards which is why I think the odds are as they are.

[Cameron]

So Steamer, are you saying that forwards are more important than backs or are our backup backs better than their back up forwards.

note we are missing Jessie, Sam and Dale from the forwards due to injury as well.

[steaming stormer]

Forwards win matches - backs determine by how much.

If the forward battle is even, then the quality of your backs shines. But you'd be hard pressed to find too many teams that win with a well beaten forward pack.

I agree on the injuries in our pack, but I would assume Dale is back in this week to help, quite possibly at Prop, with him and NAS starting

[NevilleB]

Team is out. Yes sandor named at 21. Give him a go

[yourhero]

Melbourne Storm v St Merge Dragons
Thursday 5 July, 7:50pm
AAMI Park

1. Young Tonumaipea
2. Suliasi Vunivalu
3. Cheyse Blair
4. Curtis Scott
5. Justin Olam
6. Ryley Jacks
7. Jahrome Hughes
8. Christian Welch
9. Cameron Smith ©
10. Nelson Asofa-Solomona
11. Joe Stimson
12. Ryan Hoffman
13. Kenny Bromwich

14. Brandon Smith
15. Tui Kamikamica
16. Pat Kaufusi
17. Brodie Croft

18. Scott Drinkwater
19. Lachlan Timm
20. Albert Vete
21. Sandor Earl

[blazza18]

Can't tell me Croft isn't in the dog house. What a total disaster of a situation we've put him in this season.

[yourhero]

Brodie to 7
Hughes to 1
Young out
Vete on to the bench

[yourhero]

Dragons Line-Up;

1 Matt Dufty
2 Nene Macdonald
3 Euan Aitken
4 Tim Lafai
5 Kurt Mann
6 Gareth Widdop (c)
7 Darren Nicholls
8 James Graham
9 Cameron McInnes
10 Leeson Ah Mau
11 Jacob Host
12 Luciano Leilua
13 Blake Lawrie

14 Jeremy Latimore
15 Jason Nightingale
16 Hame Sele
17 Reece Robson

18 Patrick Herbert
19 Jai Field
20 Jordan Pereira
21 Mitchell Allgood

[yourhero]

If we dominate up the middle like we should and complete our sets well, we win this.

[Deadpool]

Brodie to 7
Hughes to 1
Young out
Vete on to the bench

I agree but with one small change.
Young to centre
Blair out

[Itzbek the Purple]

No doubt he wont play but I'm really pleased for the player in the 21st jumper.

[glennb]

I had a feeling this would happen and Croft would not be named in the 7.
There was a story in the Sydney papers that a lot of the senior players think his ego is too big and needs to grow up. No saying it is true because it is out of Sydney, but one has to wonder what the story is.

[glennb]

I would like to go to the match now just to cheer him on in the warm up. I an mow going due to having surgery tomorrow, so everyone else make some noise to welcome him to the Storm family.

[yourhero]

Brodie to 7
Hughes to 1
Young out
Vete on to the bench

I agree but with one small change.
Young to centre
Blair out

Stop hating on Cheese, man!

Offers just as much in attack. INFINITELY better in defence.