Pathways Felix Faatili

Sharks NRL Prospects said:
Not sure about paper stats. He's definitely made some errors this season, and he was an error machine last year.

Fearnley, Tuks, Hosking all play a lot more than him. His minutes are on par with the other guys.

Some injuries pushed the bench props minutes up a bit too. Warriors game in particular.
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Felix's minutes seem to be centred around Tooks minutes, in 3/4 games they played together when Tooks comes off Felix comes on and vice versa. In fact it seems George rotates his props in pairs. The only real exception I saw, again based on stats, is the Warriors game where we lost Gabrael.
 
Gibs said:
Felix's minutes seem to be centred around Tooks minutes, in 3/4 games they played together when Tooks comes off Felix comes on and vice versa. In fact it seems George rotates his props in pairs. The only real exception I saw, again based on stats, is the Warriors game where we lost Gabrael.
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That appears to the plan this season, but he is limited by the current personnel.

When we see a game where Puru and Berrell both play and both second rowers are available I think you will see it change to be more like last season. Rather than 1 for 1 he works it so Hosking and Puru are the two highest minutes, and both are on together for much of the second half. Similar to how the Sharks managed the rotation with Finucane and McInnes. Cam wore a bench number but those guys were almost always top 2 in minutes.

Warriors game they also lost Uele and had Hosking playing second row. Roosters game they played most of the second half with 6 running forwards.
 
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