Sorry it's been a little slow around here, my compatriot (or as I like to think of him, apprentice) has been moving house and unable to access the World Wide Web. Unfortunately he’s still been able to access things like Facebook via his phone, so there’s no fully escaping him. He tells me he’ll be back on the blog on Friday.
Right, here’s the team list for this weekend’s game against the Bulldogs
1 Josh Hoffman
2 Antonio Winterstein
3 Ben Te’o
4 Israel Folau
5 Jharal Yow Yeh
6 Darren Lockyer
7 Ben Hunt
8 Dunamis Lui
9 Andrew McCullough
10 Mitchell Dodds
11 Alex Glenn
12 Sam Thaiday
13 Corey Parker
- Interchange (One to be omitted)
14 Lagi Setu
15 Scott Anderson
16 Corey Norman
17 Gerard Beale
18 Steve Michaels
With Wallace and Gillet both out for 4-6 weeks with medial ligament injuries, we’ve been forced to make a few changes. Te’o moves into the centres to replace Gillet, while Ben Hunt slots into half-back for Wallace. The big news here is that Steve Michaels has made his way onto an extended bench, after impressing in his first game back from injury for the Wynnum Manly Seagulls in the QLD Cup. Many (myself included) are eager to see if he’s improved his fundamentals after a long stint out of first grade. With the injury to Gillet and Beale’s poor performances he may well get his chance this weekend. Either way, it’s an extended bench so one needs to be culled. I wouldn’t expect the first 17 named above to be our final team come Friday night.
The Bulldogs are in very much the same situation as us this year, except they haven’t had injuries to use as an excuse. Just like us, they won last weekend to drag themselves off the bottom of the table to find themselves sharing 10th place on 4 points with 5 other teams. One of them being us. So it’s a very big game on Friday night. Both teams will be desperate to win two in a row for the first time all season, and both will know that a win could possibly shoot them into the top half of the table. Its early days to be talking about table position, but it certainly eases the pressures on everyone knowing that you’re team are no longer cellar dwellers.
Regular ranting should return soon!
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
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I'll show you apprentice! Moving house sucks, end of story.
ReplyDeleteOn topic - there's a few interesting match-ups for the weekend which I'll cover off on Friday. Sigh at the injury curse continuing :/. If memory serves me correct the last time Hunt played in the halves, we lost 56-0 to the Raiders.
No pressure!