Finals Week 1

[Scooter]

Team list Tuesday lads and ladettes, our questions will be answered... hopefully haha.

Pole I am not sure questions will be answered. I think Vunivalu and Finucane will both be named. As will Lumelume. So in lead up to kick off we will still be asking about the fitness of Vunivalu and Finucane.

In terms of centre position at least two of Lee, Momirovski and Leutele will be named in squad. So we still won't know for sure who is our second centre.

[Pole]

Yeah, my comment was tongue in cheek.. but at least we will know who definatley isn't playing.

[Scooter]

Pole, I was clearly being too cynical. Finucane not named and Lee and Olam only centres named (unless you count Eisenhuth, ie no Momirovski or Leutele)

Official squad
1 Ryan Papenhuyzen
2 Suliasi Vunivalu
3 Brenko Lee
4 Justin Olam
5 Josh Addo-Carr
6 Cameron Munster
7 Jahrome Hughes
8 Jesse Bromwich
9 Cameron Smith
10 Christian Welch
11 Felise Kaufusi
12 Kenny Bromwich
13 Nelson Asofa-Solomona
14 Brandon Smith
15 Tino Faasuamaleaui
16 Tom Eisenhuth
17 Nicho Hynes
18 Darryn Schonig
19 Isaac Lumelume
20 Albert Vete
21 Ryley Jacks

[Scooter]

Eels Official squad
1 Clinton Gutherson
2 Maika Sivo
3 Michael Jennings
4 Waqa Blake
5 Blake Ferguson
6 Dylan Brown
7 Mitchell Moses
8 Reagan Campbell-Gillard
9 Reed Mahony
10 Junior Paulo
11 Shaun Lane
12 Ryan Matterson
13 Nathan Brown
14 Will Smith
15 Andrew Davey
16 Kane Evans
17 Marata Niukore
18 Ray Stone
19 Brad Takairangi
20 Oregon Kaufusi
21 Daniel Alvaro

[Scooter]

Referees
Referee Ashley Klein
Touch Judge Dave Munro
Touch Judge Peter Gough
Senior Revie Official Steve Chiddy

[Mattpoet]

Klein, of course, let's just openly rig it now

[blazza18]

That's a gee up lol. I'm sure the club wont be happy with that.

A versatile but odd bench from Bellamy. Would love to see Schonig get a crack.

[RobbieRoss]

Klein, of course, let's just openly rig it now

I just logged in here to get all the news , and it is all bad.

1. Dale not named. Not a big surprise , but still disappointing.
2. Their 6 -Brown - named. He is a very good player, but I guess no certainly yet.
3. Ashley Klown . NO !!

[Storm2016]

I thought it was a bit odd Lumelume got picked ahead of Momirovski for wing back up, but it now appears as though he has got a syndezsmosis injury in the dragons game.
I saw him go down during the game.

Lumelume has done well but inexperience could be an issue, we need Suli to be fit.

[Scooter]

I thought it was a bit odd Lumelume got picked ahead of Momirovski for wing back up, but it now appears as though he has got a syndezsmosis injury in the dragons game.
I saw him go down during the game.

Lumelume has done well but inexperience could be an issue, we need Suli to be fit.

Bummer, big fan of Momirovski.

[Storm2016]

Momirovski has been good for us, but his season is probably done now which is a real concern. That worries me with Suli hammy and Brenko seems to pick up injuries here and there too. Can we please all just hold together for a few weeks.

Klein....unbelievable
He got us in the QF last year with a heap of key missed decisions and they give us him again. Coincidence??? I think not.

[Pole]

Not suprised by the line up, overall pretty happy. I was hoping to see Dale named at least as a reserve.

Yeah, Ashley Klein ... worst "call up" ...

[sallymay]

King banned for 3 games

[yourhero]

The assignment of Klein can only be viewed as deliberate. The long running issues we have had with him and the numerous complaints the club has lodged, yet he is given us for the first final? 100% deliberate from Annesley and Sutton.

We have to take it out of Klein's hands and dominate from the opening whistle. It will be difficult if Parra are gifted field position from nit picking penalties and 6 again calls that aren't evenly officiated - which based on Klein's history, will almost certainly be the case.

[Pole]

Yeah, surely we have to be careful on the 6 agains this week..