NSW Team - Game 3

Personally, I'd like to see...

1.Hayne
2.Robertson
3.Scott
4.Tahu
5.Morris
6.Soward
7.Pearce
8.Weyman
9.Farah
10.Douglas
11.Hindmarsh (c)
12.Tolman
13.Fensom

14.Ennis
15.Poore
16.Kite
17.Mason

Being realistic though, if the outside backs are instructed to defend as they did on Wednesday night, it doesn't matter who they put out there. Thurston and Lockyer will just hold it up then deliver, throw the cut-out or kick in behind. I hear Cooper will be out so I'd pick Tahu to play left side, where he belongs. I don't see any point bringing Lyon back. We know for a fact that he can't stop Inglis. I'd like to give Scott another go, this time with a decent winger who can tackle.

There's no point picking Barrett, afaic. Sure NSW should be trying to win the final match but the series is over and if it means winning next year's series, it's worth losing a dead rubber. The same goes for Luke Stuart; this year was his last chance.

My team is a "No dick heads" zone, hence the omissions of Watmough, Gallen, O'Donnell and Creagh. Anybody who puts all of them in a team, like some on here did, should have their head checked.

 

lol, a bit more than that please?

I can't refute your arguments if you don't present any.

 

Why not? I think he's very safe and knows how to tackle.

I don't even know what that means. Why and how? Please don't tell me the lingering thought of Inglis fending him off is your key piece of evidence. Thurston and Lockyer aren't great defenders either. Neither are Kimmorley and Pearce. If they have good defenders around them, they should be fine.

All I want him to do is what Johnson did for QLD - Tackle, tackle and then tackle some more. His numbers are just amazing (far beyond anyone else) and if he gets thrown into the deep end but manages to swim in this dead rubber, boom! You've got yourself a defensive workhorse for next year (an underrated commodity IMO). If not, no worries. He'll get a taste of Origin and there aren't really any consequences as the series is over.

Where is your evidence for this?

As far as I can tell, he's offered nothing in attack this year because he's been too busy defending. Relieve him of that and we all know what he can do with a bit of time and space.

 

http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/...de-and-ill-lead-nsw--gould-20100619-yn4g.html

 

NSW made 113 more tackles than QLD.

 

Farah is not an 80 minute hooker in SOO.

 

I'm fine either way though I wouldn't be using them for 40 each.

 

Like we should take what he did in a club game over what he did in Game 1, 2009.

 

Laffranchi's defence in Game 1, 2009 and for the Titans in general, of late, has been very poor.

I'm trying to build a brick wall and Watmough is that which he leaves - Gaps.

5 props (including Tolman) and 3 back rowers offer far better balance, in my submission, than the current norm - 3 or less props and a shitload of overrated back rowers.