If his name is Ben Barba, then i'm fine with it.
Mitch Brown
If his name is Ben Barba, then i'm fine with it.
Knights have been excellent at targeting halves in the defensive line this year thus far. Gave Wallace a terrible time in Newcastle and also the Titans halves up there. Will be interesting to see how Bird and Robbo ( a decent defender) handle this on Friday knight. No Scott helps our cause. I can remember last year in Newcastle when we had Ayshford and Prior getting ass spanked by BJ Leiluia ( apologies for spelling) all game. Just hope we limit the space they get. D line moves forward and we limit mistakes like last weekend.
hope that's how they run out 1-17 but the fact flanno said he will keep people guessing till Friday scares me1 Valentine Holmes
2 Sosaia Feki
3 Gerard Beale
4 Ricky Leutele
5 Michael Gordon
6 Jack Bird
7 Jeff Robson
8 Andrew Fifita
9 Michael Ennis
10 Chris Heighington
11 Luke Lewis
12 Wade Graham
13 Paul Gallen (c)
Interchange
14 Ben Barba
15 Anthony Tupou
16 Matt Prior
17 David Fifita
18 Tinirau Arona
19 Jayson Bukuya
hope that's how they run out 1-17 but the fact flanno said he will keep people guessing till Friday scares me
Yeah seems to be a big lump capable of looking after himself. Hopefully we can control the pill and his work is done with the pill rather than defending. For what it's worth I think Barba on bench is a good move at this point. If he gets on fresh against a tiring defence he may rediscover his mojo. God I hope we win this game!I get the feeling that players will get sick of running at Bird, he's a tough young fella and I reckon he'd lap up the opportunity to put in a few extra big hits under the ribs
Makes a bit of a mockery out of naming teams but guess that's just the way it is.
Is this...is this what it feels like not to rage over the team list? Is this real life?
This is a first for me... Go easy SF'ers...
I think Barba would thrive in amongst this youthful, dynamic backline, and I'm not prepared to leave him out of my starting squad. Interchange would be a waste, and it places players arguably on their most suitable positions.
The NRL all but moved to Wednesday team releases but Big League or League Week or both kicked up a stink about not being able to get line ups printed in time. But trust no team sheet till an hour before kickoff.