Woodsie's Team List Tuesdays

[ALinda]

I'm hoping that:
Lawton's recovered from his injury, is named at 12 and actually plays there
Talau's recovered from his injury and is named in the 17 (personally I'd like him to replace Koula, who was underwhelming last week)
Simpkin replaces Croker at 9, with Croker on the bench
Lodge is brought into the 17 to give a much-needed boost to our defence

We need our strongest possible side to have any chance of a win.

Talau -
Lawton - in reserves is a half , still hoping...
Simpkin - , unfortunately
Lodge -

Fingers crossed some sense prevails by the 6pm Thurs team update. Surely Croker's not going to play 80 mins against the Dogs!

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

Talau -
Lawton - in reserves is a half , still hoping...
Simpkin - , unfortunately
Lodge -

Fingers crossed some sense prevails by the 6pm Thurs team update. Surely Croker's not going to play 80 mins against the Dogs!

Our forwards can all play but a lumbering pack with Paseka, Aloia, Lodge, Jake, and Haumole looks unbalanced, even old-fashioned suddenly for this crazy 6-again era.

The winning template calls for plenty of action players, fit mobile and energetic, able to constantly run support plays and get to tackles in numbers. We need to add Lawton in place of one of the boppers, I'd have thought.

The Sharks still use multiple boppers, but at least balanced with 3 lighter 80min backrows and an 80 min dummy half.

Out of deference to his standing in the club I think Crokes is being given a chance to show he can manage 80 min. And ditto Aloia, a chance to show he's better value than Lodge if it comes down to selecting only one of them. Koula another case in point, and hopefully he's been given a crash course in dummy half play, as he's too much of a talent to leave out of the 17.

Seibold has made a point of saying we want competition for spots, and to his credit he has acted on that so far. The decisions only get harder now we're at the pointy end.