Round 17 - Storm vs Raiders

[Bullucked]

Wet weather football

Josh King needs to be singled out for his excellent, never give up attitude.

[sallymay]

Absolutely loved beating the raiders and absolutely loved the thunderstruck guitarist drowning out the raiders drumming at the start

X going down I guess that means Remis comes back and Proberly Dean …both are meant to play for the bears today so see if either pull out

[Shuttlesworth99]

Absolutely loved beating the raiders and absolutely loved the thunderstruck guitarist drowning out the raiders drumming at the start

X going down I guess that means Remis comes back and Proberly Dean …both are meant to play for the bears today so see if either pull out

My noggin thought maybe Grant gets pushed out to the wing again with Means returning - if the calf is good to go.

[TC]

Absolutely loved beating the raiders and absolutely loved the thunderstruck guitarist drowning out the raiders drumming at the start

X going down I guess that means Remis comes back and Proberly Dean …both are meant to play for the bears today so see if either pull out

My noggin thought maybe Grant gets pushed out to the wing again with Means returning - if the calf is good to go.

If you're looking down that path I'd rather Meaney on the wing - his defence at centre just doesn't work.
I'm guessing that if Paps is back it will probably be Sua straight to 5. If not then Sua stays at 1, Remis or Dean to centre and Howarth pushed out to the edge.

[blazza18]

Yeah, I really do hope we can just push Means onto the wing. Specially since Anderson has looked more comfortable in the centres.

Conditions didn't help but last night showed that Sua still has a lot of developing to do. If Paps returns we're probably better off him going back to the Bears.

[Mattpoet]

I don’t know how many minutes he got but I assume Welch and NAS playing well meant Tui barely played? He’s been underwhelming all season.

He had that one outstanding game (against Brisbane?) and then did his calf on his first run the next week and we're back to square one

[RobbieRoss]

Hopefully Coates doesn’t miss too many weeks. Big loss if he’s out.

Huge loss. Outside of Katoa and Hughes, Coates has probably been our next best all year.

Howarth came back on but reeled out of a tackle limping again and holding his hip. Another backline shuffle next week.

Correct re Jack . Club says a glute , out for 1-2 weeks. So hopefully just misses next week and then back after the bye

[Scooter]

That is two outside backs we have to find. Reimis and Dean I assume.

Not sure how bad Meaney's calf is. But normally calves are more than a week.

If Paps is back, based on Craig's comments at press conference Sua might move to the wing.

Of course Bradley might start too.

[Scooter]

Storm two games clear on top.

[blazza18]

Some of the performances haven't been great but it's cool that we continue to bank wins and win without multiple key players missing every week. We have a heavy away schedule to finish up so I think things will start to tighten up a bit.

[moffla]

We are just finding ways to get it done at the moment. To think that we have so many players - particularly 3/4 of our spine - to add to this team is exciting. We have had some clunky performances, but we know how to win.

Not bothered on winning the minor premiership, bu would love to hold on to top 2 to give us a real crack in finals.