Potential changes: Denton ---> Bench. Morgieb ---> Start. Steve to swap with Gaz? Not sure on this one tbh. Azzal to swap with AVA. Maybe Izett to replace AVA entirely. Fiery to swap with Bender. Props looked solid. No changes proposed. Pivots worked well. Escath and Rego went fine. Back row looked good. No advantage to be seen in swapping Boob with Yates - both get 40 minutes. Yates puts in the hard yards up front, leaving Boob to sweep the board in the second half against fatigued players.
Morgue really has had a good season closing the gap on Denton Reckon if you start azzal as hooker you should have Welker/Burger on the bench in case azzal is injured and we lose prop coverage?
Match Two Benny Read Aaron O'Neill Os du Toit Heath Davis Morgan Burridge Ben Manera JD Hurricane Samuel Yates Rob Cribb Aaron Hunt Lucas Schaw Gareth Weaver John Heads Geoff Smith Regan Hutchinson Steve Cambridge Dion Alessi Tom Delonge Brett Gemmell Sam Bakkum Ben Herd Donald Boland Subs: Cambridge to cover the centres. Comes on at half time if Weaver/Heads running 7s or less. Alessi to come on at 60 if the other starting centre is running below 7s. Alessi for Hunt at 60 otherwise. Herd on for Smith/Schaw if either is running sub 5s at half time, sub 8s at 60 minutes. Bakkum only comes on at 70 (60 if he's lucky and Cribb's only going at 7/10) Boland for Burridge at 60 unless Burridge running 8s+ Yates/Gemmell to run a half each. Starter stays on until 60 if running at 8+ Delonge on and moves to hooker if any starting front rower is running sub 6s at half time. On at 60 for O'Neill otherwise. Play: Default (all conditions) Place Kicker: Hunt, Alessi Tactical Kicker: Cribb, Hunt, Rego ---- Made a few changes. Dropped Denton altogether - plumped for the left-field selection of Boland to replace him. Fiery on to start instead of Herd, Azzal gets the starting berth over AVA, but AVA retains the bench spot.
I'll be on at half time, and will have a great game and you will always be left wondering, what if...?
I actually think in this match we'll all be queuing up to score a try. Those chumps from the Northern Hemisphere are going to get ripped to shreds.