2023 NRL Round 24 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks v Gold Coast Titans 6pm Friday 11th August @ Shark Park

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I'm going to suggest a change this week. Seeing as our left edge no longer has Moylan, I'm wondering if we can't get away with this.

12 Colquohon
14 Graham
15 Williams
16 Hazelton
17 Hiroti

It gives us options for injuries, and Williams, Hazelton and Mcinnes can all play big minutes it seems. If the middle is struggling Wade goes to the left and Colquohon shifts in for a spell. Alternatively Hiroti goes to centre and Talakai goes to the middle, again only if they need it.

Colq played 69 minutes on the left against Manly and looked very good.
 

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I'm going to suggest a change this week. Seeing as our left edge no longer has Moylan, I'm wondering if we can't get away with this.

12 Colquohon
14 Graham
15 Williams
16 Hazelton
17 Hiroti

It gives us options for injuries, and Williams, Hazelton and Mcinnes can all play big minutes it seems. If the middle is struggling Wade goes to the left and Colquohon shifts in for a spell. Alternatively Hiroti goes to centre and Talakai goes to the middle, again only if they need it.

Colq played 69 minutes on the left against Manly and looked very good.
I don’t think Wade is moving from the left edge anytime soon .

Don’t mind the Hiroti bit though …
 

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I'm going to suggest a change this week. Seeing as our left edge no longer has Moylan, I'm wondering if we can't get away with this.

12 Colquohon
14 Graham
15 Williams
16 Hazelton
17 Hiroti

It gives us options for injuries, and Williams, Hazelton and Mcinnes can all play big minutes it seems. If the middle is struggling Wade goes to the left and Colquohon shifts in for a spell. Alternatively Hiroti goes to centre and Talakai goes to the middle, again only if they need it.

Colq played 69 minutes on the left against Manly and looked very good.
You thinking Wade goes into the halves if needed?
 

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You thinking Wade goes into the halves if needed?
Not really, but he could. I'm more thinking Colquohon give us more threat on the left and Wade has that versatility on the bench that is so good. I'm only thinking this bench is workable because Hazelton/Williams/Mcinnes are playing so well in the middle and can all play big minutes.
 

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I very much avoided play talk with anyone I spoke to haha, other than I did say to Jack I thought he’d been playing really well
Please tell me you at least told him to cut the rookie errors out of his game!
 

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I'm going to suggest a change this week. Seeing as our left edge no longer has Moylan, I'm wondering if we can't get away with this.

12 Colquohon
14 Graham
15 Williams
16 Hazelton
17 Hiroti

It gives us options for injuries, and Williams, Hazelton and Mcinnes can all play big minutes it seems. If the middle is struggling Wade goes to the left and Colquohon shifts in for a spell. Alternatively Hiroti goes to centre and Talakai goes to the middle, again only if they need it.

Colq played 69 minutes on the left against Manly and looked very good.
For me Wade has looked terrible when coming off the bench and much better when starting. I'd had him starting same as last week.

If we're going to have a utility on the bench it should definately be someone who can cover multiple positions.
 

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For me Wade has looked terrible when coming off the bench and much better when starting. I'd had him starting same as last week.

If we're going to have a utility on the bench it should definately be someone who can cover multiple positions.
Yeah Wade has been pretty useless, last couple weeks amongst his best games this season.

JC looked solid there but didn't play out 80. Wade holding the spot for now and JC as a bench option to cover middle or edge may be best.

Although we all complained a lot last season wanting Teig on edge the left edge defence wasn't as bad last season and has been more okay recently too. Some homework for Teig required through rehab to be put into effect next pre-season I think. Not the only change there though, obviously.
 

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i dont even know who the right edge backrower from the titans would be, so wade should be able to treat him like josh hoffman

dont put an outside back on the bench, just no

with 15 minutes to go we were ****ed in the forwards, dont really want a winger playing middle
 
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i dont even know who the right edge backrower from the titans would be, so wade should be able to treat him like josh hoffman

dont put an outside back on the bench, just no

with 15 minutes to go we were ****ed in the forwards, dont really want a winger playing middle
Our forwards are not fit enough to have a back or a half on the bench.
 

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Yeah Wade has been pretty useless, last couple weeks amongst his best games this season.

JC looked solid there but didn't play out 80. Wade holding the spot for now and JC as a bench option to cover middle or edge may be best.

Although we all complained a lot last season wanting Teig on edge the left edge defence wasn't as bad last season and has been more okay recently too. Some homework for Teig required through rehab to be put into effect next pre-season I think. Not the only change there though, obviously.
JC played 69 minutes, scored 48 in fantasy and had broadly top 3 numbers across our side. I've got no problem with Wade holding left, he's been great last two games, I'm just thinking we have less points with him there. More looking to finals than the regular season. Agree re Teig.
 

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i dont even know who the right edge backrower from the titans would be, so wade should be able to treat him like josh hoffman
I'd assume it's Joe Stimson but could be wrong.
dont put an outside back on the bench, just no

with 15 minutes to go we were ****ed in the forwards, dont really want a winger playing middle

We had used all our subs and had 3 middles who had played less than half an hour. An unused Moylan vs an unused winger vs Colquhoun taking a few minutes maybe not a big difference.
Could have got 3 minutes off Toby at the end (free HIA Interchange)
or 5.5 minutes off Hazelton who came on with last Int
or 9 minutes off Jack who came on with second last Int
3rd last was weird 65th minute BHU on to only come off 71st minute

Rabbits used 7 interchanges and last was at 65 minute mark so during the time we were more tired we made 3 (plus a free one)

Feels like interchanges were more misused than anything. Maybe one needed to be fired off a bit earlier - between 48-52 minute Souths made 3 changes, then only 1 more, at 65 minute. But seemed to have more energy.
 

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JC played 69 minutes, scored 48 in fantasy and had broadly top 3 numbers across our side. I've got no problem with Wade holding left, he's been great last two games, I'm just thinking we have less points with him there. More looking to finals than the regular season. Agree re Teig.
Not sure about JC's fantasy breakdown but on supercoach he had
51 points base
4 points evasive
-4 points error

So not sure he was adding too many 'points' outside of fantasy...

JC played well there, against a worse team than Wade played against last two weeks, and we lost and we needed to use a sub for him.
Certainly not blaming him for a loss by any stretch but given Wade has just had two decent performances there I just think he's held it for now.
 
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So what are we thinking for the Team list tomorrow?

Tracey
Katoa
Ramien
Talakai
Mulitalo (who knows if he is fit yet?)
Trindall
Hynes
Rudolf
Brailey
BHU
Nikora
Wade
McInnes

Hazleton
Williams
Hunt
JCH

Not sure if Kafusi is back or if Fitz wants Moylan on the bench again but this is the 17 I expect we'll see.
 
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