@newsouthwales 1. Benny Read 2. Tom Delonge 3. Aaron O'Neill 4. Morgan Burridge 5. Donald Boland 6. Alex O'Driscoll 7. Keith Rask 8. Pretzel Spark 9. Rob Cribb 10. Aaron Hunt 11. Andrew James 12. Ben Jacobs 13. Kyle Tait 14. Ben Herd 15. Kelvin Fung 16. Herr Burger 17. Wes Welker 18. Jimmy Read 19. Jack Dempsey 20. James Hughes 21. Ben Taylor 22. Daniel Speirs %queensland 1. Rusty Downpipes 2. Ryan Gayler 3. Will Robinson 4. Choco Man 5. Charlie Downes 6. Ben Manera 7. League Lover 8. Brett Gemmell 9. Luke Pilgrim 10. Ged King 11. Chris Devonshire 12. Paddy Orr 13. Steve Cambridge 14. Adam Vago 15. Mark Phifteenplus 16. Alec Funkotron 17. Jeff Rocker 18. Thomas Bradford 19. Peter Retzel 20. Mate Perry 21. Brian Quilty 22.
My odds calc came up with $1.50/$2.30 for this, but I cut NSW's odds as there's a few guys out of position in the QLD which will hit them I reckon. Putting this in perspective, NSW would be $2.70 outsiders versus GB and $2.30 outsiders versus NZ. NSW sit in a middle ground between this level and the top Provincial level. So, NSW are as far ahead of QLD as NZ are of NSW.
Ryabovol not being picked is one thing, but when Phifteenplus is at fullback, that's just insult to injury. When both the above happens and there's a blank space instead of a #22, I think he might well have run over someone's pet.
Yeah, thought as much. If we improve this side enough to put us in striking distance of NZ/GB you'll be forced to let us carve out, or at least play some exhibition games.
Big fan of that selection, you were legitimately good for us both in the centres and in your primary flanker spot especially over the 2nd half of the season.
I'd probably be more inclined to split NSW into City/Country like CricSim and make the 2nd Tier Provincial stuff a more even contest, but yeah, I'd have to do something.
Yeah pretty much. It'd help if a few of our five awesome props were locks or flankers really, but I like actually have a fresh prop rotation for the whole game. We'll be losing Tarty to you cunts as well eventually which will be a loss, but we do have a few good wingers; Speirs is on the bench. I'm actually more worried about our centres than anything though. Tait played really well against Queensland and Victoria last season and had a decent club season too but he's inactive now so he'll probably start dropping off, and Incey is only 10% centre himself. Taylor is 60% flyhalf and 40% fullback which I think would make a good inside centre intuitively but he didn't have a great club season anyway even though he was playing in position.
