silvereagle
Reserve Grader
Great concept and can’t wait to see our boys in action here. $370k to the winner and $240k to the looser says we will be sending a good quality team over there. But what is the makeup of the team?
Sounds like a fast paced 7’s style of game with limited scrums and stoppages so we will need a good mix of size, speed and power. Not sure about team structure in this type of game but guessing from the play the ball and dummy half there will need to be a half-back somewhere with a centre and winger combination presumably both sides of the play the ball. Throw in the full back who can go either side and that gives me 8 players. Assuming the 9th player is a forward who hangs around close to the play the ball, that says max 2 strong but mobile forwards on the park at any one time (assume the tackled player is a forward).
So team makeup could look like this;
Forwards
Starting – I would have Brenton Lawrence and Justin Horo (can tackle and can both run the wider holes ). Assume Kingy and Richie still in recovery mode.
Bench - Dumanis Lui /Tyson Andrews / Jake Trobojevic. Alternative three could be Jamie Buhrer / Symonds/ Cheecam. Would you play choc and stewart in these games???? They would be brilliant. $370k is a lot of dough before the season start.
Backs
- dummy half – definitely Hodges
- half-back – definitely Cherry (he would have a field day out there...hardly drew a sweat I thought in the WC so might welcome a couple of touchie games)
- centres – big choice here...tried and true Jamie and Stevie? The money is too good to refuse so I would include them. Love to see Gutherson, Mark O’Dare, Rudolph out for a run although doubt it.
- wingers – same choice ...tried and true with Taufua and Wolf.......however would not be disappointed to see Delroy Berryman and Chase Blair out there.
- full-back – Hiku
What’s your team look like?
Sounds like a fast paced 7’s style of game with limited scrums and stoppages so we will need a good mix of size, speed and power. Not sure about team structure in this type of game but guessing from the play the ball and dummy half there will need to be a half-back somewhere with a centre and winger combination presumably both sides of the play the ball. Throw in the full back who can go either side and that gives me 8 players. Assuming the 9th player is a forward who hangs around close to the play the ball, that says max 2 strong but mobile forwards on the park at any one time (assume the tackled player is a forward).
So team makeup could look like this;
Forwards
Starting – I would have Brenton Lawrence and Justin Horo (can tackle and can both run the wider holes ). Assume Kingy and Richie still in recovery mode.
Bench - Dumanis Lui /Tyson Andrews / Jake Trobojevic. Alternative three could be Jamie Buhrer / Symonds/ Cheecam. Would you play choc and stewart in these games???? They would be brilliant. $370k is a lot of dough before the season start.
Backs
- dummy half – definitely Hodges
- half-back – definitely Cherry (he would have a field day out there...hardly drew a sweat I thought in the WC so might welcome a couple of touchie games)
- centres – big choice here...tried and true Jamie and Stevie? The money is too good to refuse so I would include them. Love to see Gutherson, Mark O’Dare, Rudolph out for a run although doubt it.
- wingers – same choice ...tried and true with Taufua and Wolf.......however would not be disappointed to see Delroy Berryman and Chase Blair out there.
- full-back – Hiku
What’s your team look like?
