Dragons v Dogs Round 1

[Dragons Chris]

If you want an edge you pick Jake
If you want a middle you pick Cake ..

That simple
Lawrie should only play if there are multiple HIAs etc .. the 4 that should be in the rotation are Sele/Kerr/Ryan/LKT
Flano needs to hold that 4th sub back until late and see where Cook is at.


With Ryan/Hamish you can cover an injury to the edge. Jake is a little surplus there.
If you lose a middle out of the rotation (or two as in the warriors game) then Cake.


Hate him or not he did make more metres/tackles in our trials than any other forward. He was given objectives, met them and is in the 19 for now.

Disagree. He could do a bit of a reshuffle.

 

[RufusRex]

Question with the Val to right thing ... Is Flano anticipating having to play Holmes in a different position this year (Fullback/Wing) and to prepare for that went with Suli (left) and Fale (right) as the result?

 

[redv13]

Just beat these scummy bastards please.

 

[jodragon40]

If he is struggling can bring on LKT and one of the bench forwards misses out, the 4th interchange player will be left late, to see how the game is panning out...

Can someone please explain to an old fart how this 6 man bench actually works?

So we still have 14 - 17 and now 18/19. So as pointed out if we lose a back can 18/19 jump above 14- 17? And if so would 1 of the original 14 - 17 automatically miss out?

 

[RufusRex]

you pick your 4 interchange players from the 6 during the run of the game … if foul play or HIAs take a player out you can activate a 5th

 

[AyiosYiorgos]

Can someone please explain to an old fart how this 6 man bench actually works?

So we still have 14 - 17 and now 18/19. So as pointed out if we lose a back can 18/19 jump above 14- 17? And if so would 1 of the original 14 - 17 automatically miss out?

I assumed that you have basically 6 reserves, you can choose 4 of them to replace/interchange others

 

[jodragon40]

Just beat these scummy bastards please.

My mate whose Dad actually played for Canterbury Bankstown back in the day, Mal Clift, reckons the Dogs boys have been living it up in Vegas with social media posts galore. No expense has been spared by the club and their sponsors.

Still I believe that they will be running on with a couple of players not 100% and that is in my opinion fraught with danger and good for us, especially in round 1.

Time will tell

 

[jodragon40]

you pick your 4 interchange players from the 6 during the run of the game … if foul play or HIAs take a player out you can activate a 5th

Thank you sir much appreciated

 

[jodragon40]

If you want an edge you pick Jake
If you want a middle you pick Cake ..

That simple
Lawrie should only play if there are multiple HIAs etc .. the 4 that should be in the rotation are Sele/Kerr/Ryan/LKT
Flano needs to hold that 4th sub back until late and see where Cook is at.


With Ryan/Hamish you can cover an injury to the edge. Jake is a little surplus there.
If you lose a middle out of the rotation (or two as in the warriors game) then Cake.


Hate him or not he did make more metres/tackles in our trials than any other forward. He was given objectives, met them and is in the 19 for now.

And although surprised that is all you can ask any player to do. You set achievable goals and targets per player then the team as a whole.

Now if some fail to meet those then you get jumped. Perhaps this is what has happened to LPT. ?

 

[redv13]

My mate whose Dad actually played for Canterbury Bankstown back in the day, Mal Clift, reckons the Dogs boys have been living it up in Vegas with social media posts galore. No expense has been spared by the club and their sponsors.

Still I believe that they will be running on with a couple of players not 100% and that is in my opinion fraught with danger and good for us, especially in round 1.

Time will tell

My friend, I can smell an ambush coming

 

[George Sancti]

Dragons team:​

1. Clinton Gutherson
2. Christian Tuipulotu
3. Moses Suli
4. Valentine Holmes
5. Setu Tu
6. Kyle Flanagan
7. Daniel Atkinson
8. Emre Guler
9. Damien Cook
10. Toby Couchman
11. Luciano Leilua
12. Jaydn Su’A
13. Hamish Stewart
14. Hame Sele
15. Josh Kerr
16. Blake Lawrie
17. Ryan Couchman
18. Lyhkan King-Togia
19. David Fale

No surprise really. Sloan and Feagai have fallen well down the order. Halangagu offers much more than Blake but it is Flanno after all. No surprise he went with Blake.

Barring injuries, I can’t see Blake Lawrie or David Fale getting any minutes off the bench. Kyle will slot in at dummy half when Cook comes off, and LKT will cover at 5/8.

 

[jodragon40]

My friend, I can smell an ambush coming

Me too, sometimes too much of the good life can affect your attitude on game day

 

[jodragon40]

Barring injuries, I can’t see Blake Lawrie or David Fale getting any minutes off the bench. Kyle will slot in at dummy half when Cook comes off, and LKT will cover at 5/8.

Thinking along those lines , time will tell if we have any idea

 

[GCRV]

My friend, I can smell an ambush coming

I don't think they are that good that it'll be a big upset unless that CS was the norm. If so, Flanno will and should get sacked before Origin period. Can't have that shite being dished up in a coaches 3rd year In charge.

 

[Justadragon]

Me too, sometimes too much of the good life can affect your attitude on game day

As long as we go in with the right attitude, the rest will look after itself. As I said before we are not there for a holiday. There is already enough shit going around without us putting in an embarrassing display.