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 -
@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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