Melbourne Storm vs Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, Friday

[The Black Dot]

• 1. Sualauvi Faalogo
  2. Siulagi Tuimalatu-Brown
  3. Manaia Waitere
  4. Nick Meaney
  5. Moses Leo
  6. Tyran Wishart
  7. Jahrome Hughes
  8. Stefano Utoikamanu
  9. Trent Toelau
  10. Josh King
  11. Cooper Clarke
  12. Oryn Keeley
  13. Trent Loiero
  14. Hayden Watson
  15. Alec MacDonald
  16. Jack Hetherington
  17. Shawn Blore
  18. Joe Chan
  19. Angus Hinchey
  20. Davvy Moale
  21. Stanley Huen
  22. Jai Bowden

And Howarth is out yet again!

[Mattpoet]

Come on Bellamy, put Hinchey and Watson on

[Diehard_Storm]

Howarth is broken. Needs to go.

[sallymay]

I don’t even care about scores anymore I just wanna see individual players play well and or debut …this year was over when Eli got injured and the end of the year can’t come quick enough for our boys

Manifesting Hayden debuting this week

[blazza18]

It's interesting that the team announcement yesterday said Jack did his shoulder at training when we all saw him grabbing it on Friday and have seen him grab at it in other games. Given that it looks like we're keeping him for at least another season we should probably look into getting that fixed up so he can be fit and ready for 2027.

[Bullucked]

In my opinion Toelau is more a 6 than 9, but not at the expense of Wishhy.
Having said this, as Wish is not going to be here next year and the season is written off, surely it's time to give Trent (either of them ) a fair crack?

[The Black Dot]

In my opinion Toelau is more a 6 than 9, but not at the expense of Wishhy.
Having said this, as Wish is not going to be here next year and the season is written off, surely it's time to give Trent (either of them ) a fair crack?

Pity that Satrick is out at the moment. Would have liked for him to get some time at hooker.

[sallymay]

In my opinion Toelau is more a 6 than 9, but not at the expense of Wishhy.
Having said this, as Wish is not going to be here next year and the season is written off, surely it's time to give Trent (either of them ) a fair crack?

Pity that Satrick is out at the moment. Would have liked for him to get some time at hooker.

Absolute worst time to get suspended lucky it’s only a week

[TC]

So, if we go back to what we thought our best team would look like, we have basically have 8 first choice players in the 17.

[Mattpoet]

And 2 of those would have started on the bench - Wishart and Clarke

[Scooter]

And 2 of those would have started on the bench - Wishart and Clarke

And one of those we would have expected to be a bench middle forward not a starting edge forward.

[blazza18]

Seems like a very good chance Hayden Watson will debut tonight. Wonder if he'll get time at hooker or we do a swap and he goes into the halves.

[sallymay]

I’m waiting to see who is named in cup tonight before making judgment on who is playing where

Absolutely stupid cup and nrl aren’t being played at aami instead cup is played at seabrook this arvo leaving whoever isn’t playing or is playing a small window to get to aami it’s ridiculous

[TC]

Strong rumours Rome won't play and Hayden will debut.

[blazza18]

Suppose it doesn’t matter as much with the year fizzling out already but not great that Jahrome’s body keeps breaking down. He hasn’t finished a season healthy for awhile.