PRE-GAME DISCUSSION: Raiders v Manly [Round 6, 2020]

[SeaEagleRock8]

Waddell must be injured as he's not even in the extended squad

Just saw the team and wondered the same thing.
Or ... Des is playing the long game and wants to keep a number of players in some sort of match fitness?

 

[aido98]

I have a funny feeling walker at centre and cust to 5/8.

 

[The better Robbo]

Just saw the team and wondered the same thing.
Or ... Des is playing the long game and wants to keep a number of players in some sort of match fitness?

Yeah makes sense to rotate the fringe players. Im happy for them to all get some game time

 

[susan]

Can’t see us troubling the faders with that side and our current form - but they do have trouble with us usually. After this game our draw becomes a hell of a lot easier and we could string together a nice run to build the confidence.
3 and 3 , if we lose, is still a reasonable base to launch from and we can only get better.

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

Can’t see us troubling the faders with that side and our current form

Our team looks fine to me. Having said that, Williams may well be the final piece of the premiership puzzle for the Raiders. And Wighton is seriously right up with Tedesco and Turbo as the NRL's hardest player to stop.
Will be a good contest well worth watching!

 

[The better Robbo]

Can’t see us troubling the faders with that side and our current form - but they do have trouble with us usually. After this game our draw becomes a hell of a lot easier and we could string together a nice run to build the confidence.
3 and 3 , if we lose, is still a reasonable base to launch from and we can only get better.

We certainly look a lot weaker with 2 of our starting backs out. This was always going to be our weakness. We can cover the forwards and even the halves to a certain degree but we are very slim out wide. Im hoping for a good effort but winning would take an extremely smart game from us and on current form seems unlikely. As you mentioned we have an easier draw after this week only playing 3 of last years top 5 teams. 3 from 6 is a pass mark, if we can scrape a win then 4 from 6 is a flying start to the season

 

[The better Robbo]

Our team looks fine to me. Having said that, Williams may well be the final piece of the premiership puzzle for the Raiders. And Wighton is seriously right up with Tedesco and Turbo as the NRL's hardest player to stop.
Will be a good contest well worth watching!

Hopefully Wighton is out with his eye. It was pretty bad and I would imagine it would completely close up during the week. Id be surprised if he plays and even if he does he will be playing with one eye

 

[Jethro]

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[wombatgc]

Will be looking for the Hodgson one on one strip. He’s way down in that department so far this year.

 

[40 years an eagle]

I have a funny feeling walker at centre and cust to 5/8.

A tad optimistic I think but you never know your luck in the big city.

I would prefer Custard at 7 and DCE at 6.

 

[Jethro]

Waddell must be injured as he's not even in the extended squad

He's not listed here either:

Casualty Ward: Your club's pre-season injury list

All the latest info on who's in, who's out, injuries and unavailability for all rosters for 2022.

www.nrl.com

 

[madmax]

I have a funny feeling walker at centre and cust to 5/8.

God I hope not!!!

 

[Will on the hill]

Tight game, we need to watch out for Williams, he has done well against up and in defence. I'd like to see a lot of traffic directed at Papalii to wear him out. If we win the error count we win the game.

 

[Bring back the.... Biff?]

Waddell dropped or injured???

Watching the broncos game he hurt his left shoulder in the 2nd half. He kept playing... maybe its that

 

[The better Robbo]

He's not listed here either:

Casualty Ward: Your club's pre-season injury list

All the latest info on who's in, who's out, injuries and unavailability for all rosters for 2022.

www.nrl.com

Must be rotating fringe players to give them all a run

 

[Bring back the.... Biff?]

Must be rotating fringe players to give them all a run

Im watching the donkey's game and he hurt his shoulder in the 2nd half in a Darius boyd tackle.

 

[Shoe1]

Hopefully Wighton is out with his eye. It was pretty bad and I would imagine it would completely close up during the week. Id be surprised if he plays and even if he does he will be playing with one eye

I’ve never really seen an eye that bad that hasn’t got a fracture associated with it.

 

[40 nil]

I think Des will likely go with the 17 listed, unless Sironen or others are not fully fit. I would prefer Keppie with his higher intensity to start ahead of Paseka. The 21 man squad indicates Schuster & Hopoate are not yet in the top 24 players. It might take quite a few injuries before these young guns are blooded.

 

[Chip and Chase]

Elliot and Garrick together on that right edge worry me. Wighton is a good runner of the ball and I presume Cotric will be on left wing now that Rapana is back. That's a couple of strong runners against a couple of weaker defenders.

Miski on bench intrigues me. Could Des be thinking another last minute switch of Missy for Miski ?? Funa or Garrick to centre and Abbas to wing ?

Taupua would be handy to have, but we can cover him as our middle forward depth is pretty good these days.

 

[mickqld]

I'll defer to the man whose played 312 1st grade games , coached 418 games, won 4 GFs and played state and test matches for the best team selections compared to my record of 0,0,0 & 0.