its on nrl.com [hr] Sea Eagles 1 Brett Stewart 2 Jorge Taufua 3 Jamie Lyon (c) 4 Steve Matai 5 David Williams 6 Kieran Foran 7 Daly Cherry-Evans 8 Brenton Lawrence 9 Matt Ballin 10 Brent Kite 11 Anthony Watmough 12 Justin Horo 13 Glenn Stewart Interchange 14 James Hasson 15 Tom Symonds 16 Jamie Buhrer 17 George Rose 20 Esi Tonga Coach: Geoff Toovey Edit: apologies to Berks for cutting your grass!
I'm pleased to see George retained. He was clearly trying his heart out. hopefully with some decent game time over a few weeks he can get himself into peak form, in which case he can play an important role for us. Ball's squarely in his court now.
Interesting that there's only one specialist prop on the bench, does that mean Hasson is looked at in that role...and Tonga as cover for Snake. Good to see that Tooves is rotating the bench ie not the same every week which we had in previous years regardless. Hiku got first shot in the backs, played well enough, Gower, JSL in the forwards too. Now Hasson and Tonga getting a taste and George playing for his future with King, Joe G and Richie sidelined for a while. Lets just hope it's on merit and he hasn't copied the Cricket Australia blue print of the rotation policy!
I imagine that if Snake gets ruled out over the course of the next week we will see Hiku get a run at FB. Hopefully 2V isn't thinking of running Horhay at FB for a full game.
I wonder what Jesse Sene did wrong on the bench to get dropped. Didn't sit in the right seat, wore the wrong track suit, warmed up on the wrong spin cycle.
Tafua is deffinately not your makeshift fullback ! Although I don't think hiku is up for it yet ! Chisolm !!
It should be Hiku But I have always though Wolfman would go ok at fullback. Think he may have played a few games there in reggies for us before he crack NRL
Was the reason Buhrer didn't play against the Dragons because he had an injury, or did Tooves drop him in favour of Hasson for that game?
