NRL 2024
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sort of following on from those last two posts, i started thinking, who would you name if you had to pick a rep side of the NRL to take on anyone else? Regardless of nationality, sort of an All NRL first team?
Mine is packed with Panthers
Props: AFB, JFH, Haas and Big Tino
Hookers: Grant and Robson
Back Row: Chrichton, Nanai, Fifita, Yeo (shout to Patty Carrigan who deserves a spot, but Yeo is amazing)
Halves: Cleary, Mam
Centres: Manu, and shit, one of Cobbo and May (for completely different reasons)
Wings: To'o and Coates
Fullback: Fucking pick one. I think it's Edwards, but would anyone blink if you put Walsh or Papy in there?Heaps of 50/50s, especially in the back row.
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Props: Hard to argue with any props
Hookers: Grant picks himself, the back up hooker/ bench hooker could be debated. If you had a front row like that you could argue even Egan goes up the picking order or an out of position Ben Hunt. Robson a good shout though, or Api K ahead maybe
Back Row: Crichton and Fafita by default. Yeo/Carrigan middle. No argument from me. Then you have Olakau'atu, Katoa, Nikora, Nanai all good edge backrowers
Halves: Cleary (who is back up? Hughes, then DCE? Hynes,), Mam (or arguably Munster still in front). Brown plays well at 6, but can't cover 7.
Centres: Timoko probably my best centre, Manu, Holmes, Garrick, Farnsworth, Cobbo, May again for all different reasons
Wings: To'o and Coates, shit there are some amazing wingers too, Mulitalo on fire this year, Dom Young etc
Fullback: Edwards or Walsh and then a heap of close names too. -
I picked Robson because he has a sweet pass and he's tough as fuck. Perfect to start, then Grant comes on to run.
Back row i picked Nanai because no other option can score tries like he does.
Half: If i needed a back up half, for this team, it's one of the old heads like DCE or Reynolds. At 5/8 while Munster is awesome when on, he's been off for a fair while now, while Mam has been on fire.
Good shouts in the centres, no shortage of options. Especially when you think neither of us includes Staggs or Talakai -
New coach, same shit for Souths (not that Hornby would have been able to do anything on a 2 day turnaround and losing those backline players).
Penrith were as bad as i have seen them in years and smoked them. Souths were absolutely gassed with half an hour to go. But when you have Edwards and Yeo, and those middles and their tackling, everyone else just has to have a few moments and you're home.
@mariner4life Yup dead right. Any other team and they would have had to fight very hard for the 2 points.
Latrell will have to play at the back next week with Gray out and Walker and Wighton might have to make up the halves with Hawkins down.
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