Round 16 - Storm vs Sea Eagles

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ACL for Seve. Horrible news :(

The injury list grows again. This time a bad one.
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NAS with a calf strain as well. FMD!
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According to Fox, Marion Seve has done an ACL.
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Bench has been good 50 mins in. Really impressive so far.
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Game would be just about over if Cam had have kicked one more conversion.
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Much better attack when Paps looks to pass
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Very good second half. I agree, our attack looked a lot better and having Paps threaten with both run and pass, makes a big difference. Best performance by our outside backs maybe all year.
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Keen to see how Hynes goes when he’s forced to make defensive decisions because his ballhandling/playmaking next to Hughes on that right edge could be a huge X factor in the finals.
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Lumelume needs to stay in the team next week. Really good debut I thought.
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Can we just get through one game without an injury to a key player.
Feel sorry for Seve, but he was depth.
NAS injury is the 6th game in a row we have had a key injury and we are getting injuries at training too it seems.
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If Nelson Asofa-Solomona is out next week does Chris Lewis move into lock? Couldn’t figure out who was covering him when he came off but it looked like Lewis was playing second-row.
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Worried with a calf injury that NAS won't be back for finals.

Surely Lumelume keeps wing spot and hopefully Lee is back to play centre. If not Hynes starts there.
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JAC has his best game of the year.

2 Tries
16 Runs
267 Metres
3 Line Breaks
1 Try Assist
10 Tackle Breaks
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The injury toll is shocking. Seve is gone. Hopefully Nelson’s calf is not as bad as Dale’s and he will be back prefinals.

Some positives though.

1. Good to see our 1,6, 7 and 9 back together .
2. Hynes looks fine at Centre.
3. Strong debut by Lumelume.
4. Chris Lewis came on after 27 mins when Welch went off, Tino went into the middle, and Lewis played the last 53 minutes in the second row, on the left with Munster, Olam and JAC. Did well, I thought.
5. Olam and Fox just destroyed them out on that left.
6. Jesse played 65 mins, Tino 68.
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Schonig looked good too. Was quite impressed with him.
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