I think any team will find it tough when you lose your captain. Let alone both of em.
Pick Your Team Warriors v Raiders - [Round 12, 2025]
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they will be missing three of their best forwards for this game too. Both teams are in the same boat injury/SOO wise.
Gotta disagree. We are both missing major parts of our great forward packs, but we'll be missing a large chunk of leadership. They will not be, if anything that part might improve with horse gone.
Niukore < Tapine
Egan > Starling
Ford < Papa
Halasima < Hosking (JUST, Leka fanboy btw)
Laban - Sasagi
Clark > Smithies
It’s Tapine and Papa that concern me. They essentially still have their alpha. I’m not confident Ford and Niukore can go with them. Hopefully Bunty plays tbh.
Selfishly I hope Capewell doesn’t get selected for origin. (He probably deserves it tbh)
With more dominant forwards and a dynamic backline with no injuries. Lead by a controlling Half and running 6. I don’t see us winning this game. Happily be wrong btw.
I just don’t feel we have enough strike in our backline. It’s a shame Ali in injured as watching the Raiders v Titans game. Timoko side looks a little soft. Hopefully CHT-Pompey and RTS can expose it.
Egan > Starling
Ford < Papa
Halasima < Hosking (JUST, Leka fanboy btw)
Laban - Sasagi
Clark > Smithies
It’s Tapine and Papa that concern me. They essentially still have their alpha. I’m not confident Ford and Niukore can go with them. Hopefully Bunty plays tbh.
Selfishly I hope Capewell doesn’t get selected for origin. (He probably deserves it tbh)
With more dominant forwards and a dynamic backline with no injuries. Lead by a controlling Half and running 6. I don’t see us winning this game. Happily be wrong btw.
I just don’t feel we have enough strike in our backline. It’s a shame Ali in injured as watching the Raiders v Titans game. Timoko side looks a little soft. Hopefully CHT-Pompey and RTS can expose it.
we'll see on Sunday. I recall you said pretty much the same thing in the lead up to the Broncos game that we'd get rolled by their superior forwards. Didn't really turn out that way from memory. Dogs have a smaller pack than ours and ended up handling them just fine last week.
I’ll own it. The boys proved me wrong.
But if you look at the numbers Haas and Carrigan pretty much did roll us.
We obviously matched up fairly well on the night to cancel it out.
The rest of the Broncos are just grossly out of form. In particular Walsh on the night who was playing with 1 leg.
I’ll happily take the win btw. That night and this Sunday
Reports from Aus are saying Barnett stayed in Aus, and Capewell came home. So I think we will have Capewell thankfully.
I would go;
CNK
DWZ
Pompey
RTS
Taine
CHT
Metcalf
Marata
Egan
Afoa/Ale
Halasima
Capewell
Clark
Healey
Ford (50 mins+)
Demetric (not sure why he got 15 minutes, I heard HIA but don't think so?)
Laban
Capewell was great in the centres, but we're down in troops and need our best 17 on the field, and Taine is in that group easily. Healey to give us some energy with 20 to go. Really needed Fish this week, someone is going to have to front up to Tapine and Papalii..
Laban seems to have the motor of a lock, if he's done some training there defensively he could do some minutes there you would think.
I would go;
CNK
DWZ
Pompey
RTS
Taine
CHT
Metcalf
Marata
Egan
Afoa/Ale
Halasima
Capewell
Clark
Healey
Ford (50 mins+)
Demetric (not sure why he got 15 minutes, I heard HIA but don't think so?)
Laban
Capewell was great in the centres, but we're down in troops and need our best 17 on the field, and Taine is in that group easily. Healey to give us some energy with 20 to go. Really needed Fish this week, someone is going to have to front up to Tapine and Papalii..
Laban seems to have the motor of a lock, if he's done some training there defensively he could do some minutes there you would think.
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Kurt Capewell spotted flying out of QLD Morons
Gilbert was tipped to start in the second-row for Slater in Origin 1, but is now no chance of playing. Considering Capewell has 10 games of Origin experience and can play in the back-row or centres, some felt he might retain his place after Gilbert went down.
But AAP reporter Joel Gould revealed that Capewell was flying out of Brisbane airport on Sunday morning, effectively ruling him out of contention. "Unless a spate of injuries today he won’t be coming back," Gould wrote on social media.
Great news.
I couldn't give a stuff about the Australian rep trials compared to the Warriors.
one Negative thing Is it looks like Corey horsborough sp? didn't make QLD Morons soo team so he'll play us.
Capewell's been doing good in the centres for the last little while, and building that combination with LM, so we reckon he stays there this week? Our forward stocks seem better than our back stocks atm, so might see another week there
? Then we've likely got one of Ali or Berry back next week so problem solved
I also think Niukore has been pretty good in the back row so I can't see him being moved.
CNK
DWZ
Capewah
Pompey
RTS
LM
CHT
Ford
Egan
Vaimauga
Niukore
Leka
Clark
Healy/TMM
Bunty
TSS
Laban
Would love Vaimauga to get a start with the outs that we have. Give him a taste of the starting team and see if he steps up to the challenge, which is quite different from coming off the bench
? Then we've likely got one of Ali or Berry back next week so problem solved
I also think Niukore has been pretty good in the back row so I can't see him being moved.
CNK
DWZ
Capewah
Pompey
RTS
LM
CHT
Ford
Egan
Vaimauga
Niukore
Leka
Clark
Healy/TMM
Bunty
TSS
Laban
Would love Vaimauga to get a start with the outs that we have. Give him a taste of the starting team and see if he steps up to the challenge, which is quite different from coming off the bench
18th man apparently. Will find out in a couple of hours anyway
It means a lot to the players though.
I'm also happy that he's playing this weekend, but he's got to be gutted and he's definitely in some of his best form at the moment.
If Horsburgh is named 19th man for QLD Morons, does that mean he can play for Canberra or not?
19th yes 18th no
