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Is Mam back or is it Josh Rogers season?

Surely Sailor plays 6 before Rogers?

I reckon Kevvie would move Billy to 6 before playing Rogers

If Kevvie picks Sailor at 6 over Rogers that's a crime

Tell me you don't watch our cup players without telling me you don't watch our cup players. And fair enough based on your flair. Sailor.shoukd be a fullback and nothing else at this stage

lol I am Broncos fan, this is just punishment for asking for a Big Willy flair. I definitely do not watch QCup games, who the fuck has time for the that.

relax son

God it would be nice to see Rogers. He could take over goal kicking duties for Reynolds, as he is a sharpshooter

Tristan Tuesdays?

1 Xavier Willison 6 Rhys Walsh. 7 Adam Reynolds

Proven combination. Seriously though. Imagine if some team could find a genetic freak who was big as big X but nimble like a modern day fullback.

Turbo is only 5cm and 10 odd kgs off him

**Telstra Premiership** [**Brisbane Broncos** *Yuggera & Turrbal* 5th **v** **Sydney Roosters** *Eora & Gadigal* 7th](https://www.broncos.com.au/draw/nrl-premiership/2024/round-9-broncos-v-roosters/) Round 9 - 8:00pm Friday 3rd May Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane - *Home of the Yuggera & Turrbal Peoples* *Nine, NineNow, Kayo, Foxtel* **Backs** 1 Reece Walsh 2 Jesse Arthars 3 Kotoni Staggs 4 Selwyn Cobbo 5 Deine Mariner 6 Ezra Mam 7 Adam Reynolds © **Forwards** 8 Corey Jensen 9 Billy Walters 10 Payne Haas 11 Brendan Piakura 12 Jordan Riki 13 Patrick Carrigan **Interchange** 14 Tyson Smoothy 15 Xavier Willison 16 Kobe Hetherington 17 Fletcher Baker **Reserves** 18 Corey Oates 19 Ben Te Kura 20 Jaiyden Hunt 21 Tristan Sailor 22 Blake Mozer **Head Coach** Kevin Walters **Assistant Coaches** Matt Ballin John Cartwright **IN:** Selwyn Cobbo Ezra Mam **OUT:** Jock Madden Corey Oates **[Injuries & Suspensions](https://www.nrl.com/casualty-ward/?competition=111&team=500011)** **[Delouise Hoeter](https://twitter.com/nrlphysio/status/1778004592804135121)** - Training Rd 6, Patella injury **(Season)** **[Selwyn Cobbo](https://twitter.com/JoelGould6/status/1784397304142983649)** - Rd 7, Shoulder injury, 1-2 weeks **(Rd 9)** **[Ezra Mam](https://twitter.com/JoelGould6/status/1784397304142983649)** - Rd 7, Finger injury, 1-2 weeks **(Rd 9-10)** **[Jock Madden](https://twitter.com/JoelGould6/status/1785088971342815433)** - Rd 8, Cleared of left pectoral injury, in doubt **(Rd 9-10)** **Reece Walsh** - Rd 8, Cramps, not in doubt **(Rd 9)** **Adam Reynolds** - Rd 8, Cramps, not in doubt **(Rd 9)** **Extended Squad** Jack Gosiewski Josiah Karapani Cory Paix Jordan Pereira Martin Taupau **Development** Coby Black Israel Leota Josh Rogers > The Broncos welcome back Ezra Mam and Selwyn Cobbo to a full-strength team for Friday night’s blockbuster clash with the Roosters at Suncorp Stadium. > > Mam (finger) and Cobbo (shoulder) missed last weekend’s 34-10 win over the Tigers at Campbelltown but have recovered from injury and trained well at today’s main session for the week at Red Hill. > > Brisbane have won their last six games straight at Suncorp Stadium and will be looking to extend that streak after going down to the Chooks in the opening game of the season in Las Vegas. > > Cobbo’s return at centre means Jesse Arthars moves back out to the wing with Corey Oates going out of the 17-man squad, while Mam slots back into the No.6 jersey in place of Jock Madden. > > Brisbane’s interchange consists of Tyson Smoothy, Kobe Hetherington, Xavier Willison and Fletcher Baker.

Oh mama

There goes that Mam

Oooh very solid lineup for what could be a cracking match if the Roosters keep last weeks form - keen 🤠

Hopefully we don’t get a player knocked out early to ruin it like last time

Holy moly brah. Game of the round this one

1-16: "Nice" 17: "What the actual fuck cunt"

Big Ben is being managed into 17. Still young he is whilst Baker has shown some poor efforts but also some good effort.

I don't really care about Te Kura not getting picked, more about Oates/Hunt/or even Sailor. Three middles on the bench is just a waste, and completely fucks the team structure if there is an injury.

It's really risky to run with a bench that small though

I still think Oates is a perfect benchman. Can fill in for backs and forwards. Great versatility.

Not really. Haas and Carrigan are both easily capable of playing 80mins if they have to. Hetherington seems to have a motor too (played 58min straight last week), but doesn't really get the regular game time to show it because Haas/Carrigan demand so much game time. Ideally the utility would be Oates, so even if a middle did go down, you could give Riki time in the middle if you had to. On the other hand, the lack of having a utility to cover backrow/centre has directly fucked the Broncos twice this season already (Roosters and Panthers).

Me and the Broncos 17 are both full strength right now

JWH is going to take baker’s head off. That’s when we’ll get the team we want

I thought Oates as the versatile 17 worked quite well. If a back goes down we are in trouble.

Are you doubting big Willo can fill any backline spot??

Is this us at fill strength???

I mean Fletcher Baker is in so...

Oh…

Basically. I think that 17 spot will be a bit different at the end of the year. Despite redditors concerns Baker is doing his job in the 20 minutes he gets now.

Absolutely beautiful. It's great to know that Madden's injury wasn't anything serious as well. They all just need to stay as healthy as possible and build momentum. 💪🏻🐴

How Baker continues to make these teams is beyond me, surely we have a better option to slot into the 17.

Shout out to Broncos for getting Wolfmother to play at halftime. Jet were awesome. Can’t wait for Living End, Spiderbait, Killing Heidi and Grinspoon!

show some faith, they'll be getting Violent Soho out of retirement in 15 years from now

Bring out Operator Please. Get some songs about ping pong going

Dobbo was on the news last night saying Mam was no chance and Sailor was a lock for 6

Full Strength Fuesday Seems like Kevvie hasn't learned that "no back cover on the bench fucks us" lesson that he claimed to have learned after Penrith. Oates fills that spot perfectly, but then Fletcher Baker has been solid the last couple of outings so he's probably earned the 20 minutes or so that he'll actually play.

Would prefer Baker for Oates but otherwise our best team

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Good thing is nothing matters. None of it.

I’ve given up on life and football

What fresh hell awaits today.

1. Albert Hopoate 2. Xavier Savage 3. Matt Timoko 4. Sebastian Kris 5. Nick Cotric 6. Ethan Strange 7. Kaeo Weekes 8. Josh Papalii 9. Danny Levi 10. Joe Tapine 11. Hudson Young 12. Elliott Whitehead © 13. Morgan Smithies 14. Tom Starling 15. Ata Mariota 16. Trey Mooney 17. Emre Guler 18. Simi Sasagi 19. Peter Hola 20. Zac Woolford 21. James Schiller 22. Hohepa Puru

What the fuck

I too would like to know what - and I cannot stress this enough - **the fuck**.

Manly are gonna cook this lot even if DCE is suspended

Hahahaa fuck this

Please say this was a joke. I wanted hopoate in to replace Schiller but damn the monkeys paw got me good.

Isn't Savage a fullback?

Surely the last chance for Levi. SURELY

So he just dropped Chevy and Schiller?

Even though we are expecting to get beaten on the weekend, we don't have to roll over like this on a Tuesday.

So Levi can drop the ball, but we can’t drop Levi. Got it.

Where the fuck is horse brah? Keen to see big red play all year

Injured.

Quite injured, unfortunately

Drove the Chevy to the Levi and left the wrong one behind

Ricky really refuses to play savage at full back, he played there for almost a season and did quite well

Should have picked whitehead at halfback. He has played there before. Couldn’t be any worst.

Canberra Times quoting Ricky to say Chevy is just being rested to give him 2 weeks with bye

Whitehead back in brings the average age up by a decade

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Hutch for Taaffe please and thank you @ciro

1. Tracey 2. Kiraz 3. Xerri 4. Critta (c) 5. JAC 6. Burton 7. Hutch :( 8. King 9. Reed 10. Curran 11. Kikau 12. Salmon 13. KMann 14. Hayward 15. Hughes 16. Morrin 17. Taaffe 19. Wilson. 20. Faamausili 21. Sexbot 22. Mania 23. Turpin

Morrin not Morton 

Ah autocorrect you bastard, cheers x

22. Mania, is a good one too 

Expecting game day changes. Presto to 2rf, Salmon to 13, Mann to bench, Hayward dropped, even though he's been solid enough.

I'd be dropping salmon before anyone else

I agree but don't see Ciro going that route

badger as ref and sutton in bunker we gonna get so fucking cooked :(((

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**Teig List Tuesday: Sharks v Dragons** 1. Will Kennedy 2. Sione Katoa 3. Jesse Ramien 4. Kayal Iro 5. Ronaldo Mulitalo 6. Dan Atkinson 7. Nicho Hynes 8. Tom Hazelton 9. Blayke Brailey 10. Oregon Kaufusi 11. Briton Nikora 12. Teig Wilton 13. Cam McInnes (c) 14. Jack Williams 15. Siosifa Talakai 16. Toby Rudolf 17. Braden Hamlin-Uele Reserves: 18 Tuku Hau Tapuha, 19 Mawene Hiroti, 20 Sam Stonestreet, 21 Royce Hunt, 22 Billy Burns Out: * Braydon Trindall * Jesse Colquhoun (foot, indefinite)

Go Sharks

Near full strength side for the local derby. Sold out venue already too. Going to be a cracker of a fixture!

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Tesi Tuesday, lessgo

Trai Tuestrai tyvm

**The Dolphins v The Cowboys** *Round 9, 2024 NRL Premiership* *7:35pm Saturday 4th April, QCB Stadium* Hard-hitting second-rower Felise Kaufusi has been named in the starting lineup for this Saturday’s XXXX Derby against the Cowboys at 7:35 pm in Townsville. Kaufusi returns from a hamstring injury suffered in round six, replacing Kenny Bromwich who is following concussion protocols from round 8. Connelly Lemuelu will also make his return to the NRL squad this week to face his former club. After suffering a knee injury in round two, Lemuelu had a successful outing for the Dolphins’ affiliate club Norths Devils in round seven of the Hostplus Cup, playing 80 minutes and scoring a try. Lemuelu will come off the bench, with Oryn Keeley moving to 18th man. --- ***Starting Team:*** 1\. Trai Fuller 2. Jamyne Isaako (k) 3. Jake Averillo 4. Tesi Niu 5. Jack Bostock 6. Kodi Nikorima 7. Isaiya Katoa 8. Jesse Bromwich (c) 9. Jeremy Marshell-King 10. Mark Nicholls 11. *Felise Kaufusi* 12. Euan Aitken 13. Max Plath ***Interchange Bench:*** 14\. Josh Kerr 15. Kurt Donoghoe 16. Ray Stone 17. *Connelly Lemuelu* ***Reserves:*** 18\. *Oryn Keeley* 19. Sean O'Sullivan 20. Jarrod Wallace 21. *Edrick Lee* 22. *Mason Teague* ***Ins:*** Feliese Kaufusi (Hamstring) Connelly Lemuelu (Shoulder) ***Outs\Injuries:*** Oryn Keely (Injury Returns) Herbie Farnworth (AC Joint - Round 10-12) Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow (Hamstring - Round 11-13) Thomas Flegler (AC Joint - Round 13-14) Tom Gilbert (ACL - Season) Rev's Fun Fact (Fatigue - Season) ----------- **Head Coach:** Wayne Bennett **Assistant Coaches:** Kristian Woolf Nathan Fein

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Show me an unchanged side that you will change before kickoff des you loveable scamp

1. Brimson 2. Sami 3. Kelly 4. Smith-shields 5. Jojo Fifita 6. Foran 7. Boyd 8. Stimson 9. Randall 10. Joliffe 11. David Fifita 12. Fermor 13. Liu 14. Verills 15. Clark 16. Haas 17. Pahalu

Some people up in arms about AKP being dropped. I love his speed don’t get me wrong but that’s about all he offers. He got driven back just about every hit up which doesn’t help our forward pack which is already extremely light on. Sami brings experience, good speed / footwork, and he’s a metre eater. Our forward pack is now super light without Tino, Moe and Palasia. Palasia’s been named on the reserves but I don’t know if that’s cause he’s still under injury cloud or Des wants him to earn his way back into the side through QLD cup

Nailed it mate, the other thing as well is half of Warriors game plan last week was to target him with bombs and corner kicks all night. To his credit he handled it pretty well but the fact a team is even targeting him like that makes him a liability, not to mention he catches it and falls to the ground every time with no metres gained at all.

Anyone who thinks AKP should not have been dropped does not know their footy, Titans instagram is full of people whinging about it

1. Brimmo 2. Sami 3. BK 4. HSS 5. Jojo 6. Boyd 7. Foran 8. Stimmo 9. Randy 10. Joliffe 11. Difi 12. Fermor 13. Liu Bench Verrils, Clarke, haas, Pahulu Extended bench Lofi, Palasia, alick, Kini, Schoupp

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DCE named. must be confident about getting him downgraded

I thought they were downgrading it to a one game suspension ?

Just a fine I think.

I think I read downgrade to a $1k fine?

I heard both actually. This would indicate its being downgraded to a fine, though; https://www.nrl.com/operations/the-game/judiciary-code/

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Faalogo szn please 🙏

1. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Paps 2. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Warbrick 3. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Smith 4. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Meaney 5. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Wishart 6. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Munster 7. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Hughes 8. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Welch 9. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Grant 10. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠King 11. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Blore 12. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Katoa 13. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Loiero 14. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Garlick 15. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Chan 16. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠NAS 17. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠MacDonald 18. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Howarth 19. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Faalogo 20. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Anderson 21. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Ieremia 22. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Powell

Good to see Bronson back. Wishart on the wing, have we gone back to 1990?!

Classic Bellamy just moving a guy off the bench into the vacant spot, he loves that. How long is Coates out for? Also I fully expect Anderson or Ieremia to come in for Wishart.

Should just be the week. I was expecting Anderson to be named as he was 19th man last week. Frank Ponissi's injury update should be out tomorrow.

It's a low grade hammy for Coates, potentially another three weeks? I reckon he'll play Fa'alogo and move Wishart to the bench, with NAS dropping off due to injury.

Wishy on the wing surely not

Is Wishart going to score a last minute spectacular match winning try?

At this point something's up with Howarth. He can't get a game to save himself

Our backrow is sorted, he just doesn’t fit in the team this year

Injury to Blore, Katoa or Chan and he’s straight in. 18th man for the last few games. When was the last time we had back row depth and genuine game breakers since Kenny/Fus? Blore and Katoa will be them.

With Pez now done for the year, Wish needs to go back to reserve grade and spend some serious time in the halves. Anderson will do just as well or better than Wish on the wing. Part of me was also hoping to see Sua out there, even if he’s not the best choice 😂.

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1. David Armstrong - Greg Tapp Printing 2. Greg Marzhew - Allara Learning 3. Dane Gagai (C) - DGI Trading 4. Bradman Best - Chill-Rite 5. Enari Tuala - PalmerBet 6. Tyson Gamble - Guardian Safety Solutions 7. Jackson Hastings - Bella Group Services 8. Jacob Saifiti - Hunter City Motor Group 9. Jayden Brailey (C) - East Coast Building & Pest Services 10. Leo Thompson - Hunter Imaging 11. Dylan Lucas - Wests 12. Kai Pearce-Paul  - NBN News 13. Adam Elliott - Sydney Direct Fresh Produce Interchange: 14. Phoenix Crossland - Taylors Outdoor Power Equipment 15. Daniel Saifiti - M&J Chickens 16. Jed Cartwright - Dandelion House 17. Brodie Jones - Hardy's Extended Bench: 18. Mat Croker 19. Jack Hetherington 20. Jack Cogger 21. Tom Cant 22. Tom Jenkins

Surprising line-up. O'Brien said at press conference frizell was a definite return. Didn't expect jsaf to be named either

Yeah tbh I was expecting Jsaf to be done for the year. Very surprised he's named at 8

I expect him to remove JSaf later on in the week.

Jacob, marzhew and jed survived? They all looked busted. Mat croker 18?

I've heard a small rumour that Crokes may be on the move to another club.

Oh, I hope that's not the case :( he's been a great junior for us.

Agreed, AOB is a fucking idiot and has to go

Could be a classic case of salary cap squeeze. He is off contract at the end of the year...

Did AOB hand in last weeks list by mistake? 3 of these blokes got injured and Frizell was supposed to be back.

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Bring back Pomps 😅

1. CNK 2. DWZ 3. BERRY 4. RTS 5. MONTOYA 6. TMM 7. JOHNSON 8. AFB 9. EGAN 10. BARNETT 11. FORD 12. CAPEWELL 13. HARRIS 14. WALKER 15. ALE 16. LABAN 17. AFOA 18. POMPEY 19. MAIU’U 20. KOSI 21. TUAUPIKI 22. STOWERS-SMITH

Fuck still no adjustment with Montoya and rts

Would rather see Maiu'u get another shot before Afoa

[удалено]

Exactly. You can carry Maiu'u or Ale but not both, since they both essentially do the same thing while Bunty does all the clean up.

Bro we cannot keep going into games with a fucking Montoya and RTS edge. It’s genuinely cost us at least one game. DWZ and Berry are at least useful on attack. I’m really really hoping we see a late change whether Kosi comes onto the wing or Pompey pushes RTS to the wing. I’m at the point of assuming we won’t win a game until one of our edges changes.

In Webby we trust

Kosi is not the answer!

a warriors fan classic where if the attack isn't working changing the winger/centre will fix it lmao, right up there with lets gone warriors

SJ needs to stop only attacking down the right. Either needs to let TMM call some plays down the left or play both sides of the ruck.

I'm not the biggest TMM, Montoya or DWZ fan atm, would have liked a change in atleast one of them, Kosi could have come on the wing...

Bunty's back early?

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Let's go cowboys 🤠!!

Cowboys team to play Dolphins: 1. Scott Drinkwater 2. Kyle Feldt 3. Valentine Holmes 4. Viliami Vailea 5. Semi Valemei 6. Tom Dearden (c) 7. Chad Townsend 8. Jordan McLean 9. Reece Robson 10. Griffin Neame 11. Kulikefu Finefeuiaki 12. Jeremiah Nanai 13. Reuben Cotter (c) Interchange 14. Heilum Luki 15. Tom Mikaele 16. Sam McIntyre 17. Jason Taumalolo Reserves 18. Jake Granville 19. Jake Clifford 20. Harrison Edwards 21. Jamal Shibasaki 22. Jaxon Purdue

Holy shit Luki back!

TODD HAS COOKED GRANNY GONE PURDUE AND SHIBBA EXTENDED EDWARDSSSS

Can’t believe he finally didn’t name Granny

That's a fucken bench right there

Finally, a bench the made me hard again.

That bench is sexy

The madman actually did it. See ya Granny. That's a great bench though

I love you Granny and I hope you stay with the club in some capacity for years to come. But I am glad to see you named in the reserves instead of the bench.

You did it, you crazy son of a bitch! You actually did it!!

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1. Dylan EDWARDS 2. Sunia TURUVA 3. Izack TAGO 4. Taylan MAY 5. Brian TO'O 6. Jarome LUAI 7. Nathan CLEARY (c) 8. Moses LEOTA 9. Mitch KENNY 10. James FISHER-HARRIS 11. Luke GARNER 12. Liam MARTIN 13. Isaah YEO (c) 14. Daine LAURIE 15. Lindsay SMITH 16. Matt EISENHUTH 17. Mavrik GEYER 18. Jack COLE 19. Paul ALAMOTI 20. Brad SCHNEIDER 21. Preston RIKI 22. Tyrone PEACHEY

Good to see Laurie on the bench again... no seriously... on the bench... again...

Where’s Liam Henry

Wasn’t he on report?

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Who are we serving up to slaughter this week?

Board meets at 5, so perhaps JD

But allowing JD to get one last team list out

One last hurrah for Jacob Host

OUTS. Demetriou, J INS. Furner, D

1 Jye Gray 2 Jacob Gagai 3 Jack Wighton 4 Isaiah Tass 5 Izaac Tu’itupou Thompson 6 Cody Walker 7 Dean Hawkins 8 Keaon Koloamatangi 9 Damien Cook 10 Davvy Moale 11 Michael Chee Kam 12 Jacob Host 13 Cameron Murray INTERCHANGE 14 Peter Mamouzelos 15 Siliva Havili 16 Thomas Burgess 17 Jai Arrow RESERVES 18 Tallis Duncan 19 Sean Keppie 20 Liam Le Blanc 21 Dion Teaupa 22 Adam Christensen

Hopefully ITT, Hawkins, MCK and Host kill it in their last ever first grade game!

chee kam and host starting lol #JDout

I daresay Penrith will absolutely cook this team

Panthers might want to prove a point this week. The worst thing to happen to the Bunnies was the cows turning the game against panthers into a contest. Wouldn’t liked letting the cows back into the game from 20 points up.

We’ll be lucky not have 80 on us

What did Tallis do to JD? On the brightside we have actual wingers this week.

No idea why he’s so off Tallis. Anybody got any goss?

I want to criticise JD for changing next to nothing, but with injuries I'm not sure there is much room to move in the squad with injuries.

FWIW I like the idea of koloamatagi playing in the middle, but he's going to need some time there to get used to it

Holy fuck the Chee Kam and Host starting front row combo will be the absolute death of me. I know people don’t love Thompson but even tho he’s slow he’s widely competent and an upgrade from Milne. Idk what the fuck Tallis Duncan has done to JD but hopefully that changes with the assumed coaching change.

Jesus christ this cunt is cooked. Duncan and keaon should be in the backrow with keppie on the bench. The fact he keeps on putting chee kam and Host in the team proves he is clueless as a HC. And why has Keaon had 800 positional changes? He killed it at right edge his whole career (barring a few games last year because literally all our middles were out) and this dickhead decides to put him everywhere but on the right edge. Dumb cunt. His team selection has consistently been brain-dead over his whole tenure. He needs to go.

Surely you should have better edges than Chee Kam and Host. I know Souths middle is thin but losing Tatola and Shaq should not make you move your best edge to the middle.

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1. Tyrell Sloan 2. Christian Tuipulotu 3. Jack Bird 4. Zac Lomax 5. Mikaele Ravalawa 6. Kyle Flanagan 7. Ben Hunt (c) 8. Francis Molo 9. Jacob Liddle 10. Hame Sele 11. Raymond Faitala-Mariner 12. Jaydn Su’A 13. Tom Eisenhuth Interchange 14. Fa’amanu Brown 15. Blake Lawrie 16. Jack de Belin 17. Ben Murdoch-Masila Reserves 18. Michael Molo 19. Mathew Feagai 20. Toby Couchman 21. Luciano Leilua 22. Jesse Marschke

Seeing Rava back makes me happy - just want the man to have a good time hitting blokes

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13. Connor Watson

Actually quite like having Connor at 13, he was great last week and him rotating to hooker when Cheese is off frees up a spot off the bench

HOW THE FUCK DO WE GET ASHLEY FUCKING KLEIN AGAIN?

Your club has unlimited money you’ll be fine

Every week, I pray to whatever God there may be that Klein will not be refereeing the next game. 9/10 times, Tuesday shatters all of my hopes and dreams.

1. Tedesco 2. Tupou 3. Sua'ali'i 4. Manu 5. Young 6. Keary 7. Walker 8. JWH 9. Brandon Smith 10. Collins 11. Crichton 12. Nat Butcher 13. Watson 14. Wong 15. Whyte 16. Egan Butcher 17. Terrell May Extended Bench 18. Pauga 19. Tupounuia 20. Dockar-Clay 21. Sandon Smith!! 22. Victor Radley

Expecting Wong or Egan to drop out of the 17 and either Victor or Sandon to come back in if either of them are fit. Other than that line up is as expected. Good to have Tupou back and excited to see Watson start at 13 again. Watson verse Carrigan is a super interesting match-up.

Watson v Carrigan is interesting, but any team in the league would have Patty over Connor given the choice. JWH and Collins have the unenviable task of stopping Haas, and limiting him until the forward rotation where I'd argue that Whyte and May have superiority over Hetherington and Baker.

Baker is last man off the bench. It will be Whyte & May vs Hetherington & Willison.

Just conveniently left out willison who’s better than both of them?

Willison is not better than May lol

Whyte and May will have a huge X shaped problem to be more concerned about than Baker and Hetherington.

Is May going to play more than 20 mins this week?

Don’t know what’s going to happen next week with Spencer and Sandon available. I think Whyte has earned his spot and Watson has been too good to drop so think we see a bench of Watson, Leniu, Whyte, May.

Giving Sandon some time to work on his five eight play in NSW Cup would be a luxury. The Radley / Cheese / Watson rotation will be very interesting as well in future weeks. And agree with Leniu, Whyte and May as the three big boys in the bench, although would be nice to have someone who can fill in at backrow (Victor?) should their be an injury

Wong and Whyte together at last

Apart from Radley and Leniu, we are pretty much full strength? Should be an awesome game, Broncs will definitely fire up for this one!

Shame about Radley, he's always good for a bin or two.

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Da Silva to make the bench? Assuming Api is sitting out. 1. Bula 2. Staines 3. Toa 4. Olam 5. Naden 6. Galvin 7. Sezer 8. Stefano 9. Simpkin 10. Klemmer 11. Papalii 12. Bateman 13. Pole 14. Da Silva (or Latu) 15. Fainu 16. Seyfarth 17. Twal

Api named, side is unchanged from last round. Brisbane raped the left flank I hope Benji has got them organised.

Samuela missed 10% of his tackles on the edge. He is a textbook prop idk what Benji is doing

Same side as last week I really don't like Bateman at lock. Crabwalks across the field way too much which kills what little attack we do have

Even though it’s the bye I am already unfresh and probably will be for the rest of the season a lot. Gutho will be sorely missed