RD13 Storm vs Panthers

[sallymay]

1. Billy Slater
2. Mahe Fonua
3. William Chambers
4. Kurt Mann
5. Marika Koroibete
6. Blake Green
7. Cooper Cronk
8. Jesse Bromwich
9. Cameron Smith (c)
10. Tim Glasby
11. Kevin Proctor
12. Tohu Harris
13. Dale Finucane

14. Ryan Hinchcliffe
15. Kenny Bromwich
16. Dayne Weston
17. Felise Kaufusi
18. Christian Welch
19. Ben Hampton
20. Hymel Hunt


team update

reports on the radio Marika is out which we know...also Dayne Weston and Jordan McLean is back

[blazza18]

There's a few options we could go with replacing Marika. Hunt into the centres and Mann to wing would probably be my preferred choice.

Kurt needs to get his head back in the game otherwise he'll be dropped soon.

[yourhero]

Good. Whilst everyone in the team was average last week, Kenny was decent. At the very least, he offers much, much more than Weston.

[bula]

Maybe Fonua to left centre, Mann out to left wing and bring in Duffie or Hymel to right wing to partner Chambers.
Why not Munster at wing??

[TC]

I'd like to see Mann out, Munster to centre and Duffie in.

[stormy]

Storm to come out angry and punish the panfers.We had our bad moment last week.

[coupy73]

Think Munster was one of our best in a poor performance against Roosters so would like to see him in the 17 somewhere (but where??) I didn't rate K-Brom much but must say he has impressed me in the last couple of games so need to be in there. I think its time for Mann to have a rest, some of his defensive reads have been pretty average recently and doesn't really offer that much in attack. not writing him off as a player just yet though.
I would go for Duffie on the wing.

[Mattpoet]

duffie mat be on 2nd tier contract - not sure just a suspicion - which may limit our abiity to recall him ever though he got 4 tries on the weekend. kennar is leading tryscorer for easts this year so has to be considered too.

[sallymay]

he is second tier

[yourhero]

Depends how much we have relied on the second tier in 2015 as to whether it would be a problem... Surely we haven't used it much this year.

I would assume that if we wanted to, we could call on Duffy for a number of games and be comfortablely within the second tier cap.

If a side that has been relatively injury free, has second tier cap problems halfway through the year, it says something about the structure of that cap... (or the way we structure contracts).

Side note - Great to see Duffman grab four tries. If he can get back into first grade after everything that he has been through over the past few years, that would be quite incredible.

[TC]

Think Munster was one of our best in a poor performance against Roosters so would like to see him in the 17 somewhere.

I thought he tried hard, but his positional play needs a lot of work. Too many times he was tackling in the line on 3rd and even a couple of times on the 4th.
Still, he's young and learning quickly

[JimmyThunder]

A lot of coaches on here belly better look out wen off contract

[Mattpoet]

21. Cameron Munster
2. Mahe Fonua
3. William Chambers
12. Tohu Harris
24. Richie Kennar
6. Blake Green
7. Cooper Cronk
8. Jesse Bromwich
9. Cameron Smith (c)
23. Jordan McLean
11. Kevin Proctor
10. Tim Glasby
13. Dale Finucane

14. Ryan Hinchcliffe
15. Kenny Bromwich
17. Felise Kaufusi
18. Christian Welch

[blazza18]

Not sure what Hunt has to do to get a debut. Unless he's injured...

[nacho]

Tohu to centre? What? Panthers outside backs will turn him around in no time.