Assuming Choc, King and our halves are out injured. We have enough points in the bag at the moment to chance our hand with some young blood. For the Raiders, I would go with: 1. T Trbojevic 2. Hiku 3. Lyon 4. Matai 5. Taufua 6. B Stewart 7. G Stewart 8. Starling 9. Ballin 10. Lawrence 11. Horo 12. Symonds 13. Buhrer 15. Hasson 16. J. Trbojevic 17. Jesse Sene-Lefao 18. São Yes, seriously ... And would be seriously good fun.
Not bad but I'd leave Snake at fullback and try Hiku at 5/8. Are Rudolph and Littlejohn any chance of a run as halves?
I would like to see our young guys get a chance during the season. This could be done with players carrying niggling injuries but used wisely. I would not choose 2 rookies on say the left side centre and wing in the same game. They would get a call up in the "easier" games at home.
getting flogged by 100 would not be good fun for anyone on Manly's side of the coin, sure the raiders would love that though.
I'd be surprised if Cherry was out again, esp if Foz can't play...so I'd say Tooves will unfortunately persevere with Killer at 5/8 anyways.
