Pick Your Team Witzer Pre-Season Challenge Round 2- Warriors vs Manly

[BangBro's (still banging)]

Wrighty you are a man of statistics and evidence are you not?

Can you please advise me of how you came to this conclusion. My response to you is that you COULD be right. Leka may actually be a shit center, but we do not have any evidence of this as he has only started there once, and played a handful of minutes after shifting to centre mid game.

What is it about Leka's game that makes you think he wont succeed, when many of his skills (strength, balance) should, in theory benefit from more space and generally smaller players marking him (as opposed to props and 2nd rowers closer in).

Moving Leka to center could be literally, the single greatest positional switch in the history of the game, or it also could be the worst, or it could be anywhere in between. I'm keen to hear your thoughts!

Yeah I think if the halves can give our centres early ball and space to strike then there is no reason why this pairing couldn't be right up there! In any case im please to see Leiataua there.

 

[Warriorsitsouryear]

Jett is injured

Is this a nod to Jack Thompson ahead of Cleary? If so im all for it!

 

[Wrighty]

Wrighty you are a man of statistics and evidence are you not?

Can you please advise me of how you came to this conclusion. My response to you is that you COULD be right. Leka may actually be a shit center, but we do not have any evidence of this as he has only started there once, and played a handful of minutes after shifting to centre mid game.

What is it about Leka's game that makes you think he wont succeed, when many of his skills (strength, balance) should, in theory benefit from more space and generally smaller players marking him (as opposed to props and 2nd rowers closer in).

Moving Leka to center could be literally, the single greatest positional switch in the history of the game, or it also could be the worst, or it could be anywhere in between. I'm keen to hear your thoughts!

There is no stats I can provide off a sample of one game. I might pull out the stats if he had played three or four games at centre. This is just an eye test comment. He was invisible in the game he played at centre and looked lost as where to stand and what to do and was the opposite of pro-active when it came to injecting himself into the game. It looked like he had no idea how to play the position.
Putting my positive thinking cap on the best explanation I have is that
1) They are holding Pompey back for Trial number 2
2) Charnze is really going to be the third ranked centre but he is in the All Stars game
3) They had to scrape around this game for who to play at centre and came up with Leka.

 

[Tookey 2.0]

There is no stats I can provide off a sample of one game. I might pull out the stats if he had played three or four games at centre. This is just an eye test comment. He was invisible in the game he played at centre and looked lost as where to stand and what to do and was the opposite of pro-active when it came to injecting himself into the game.

Yeah that's all fair, and I guess that was kinda my point. He's played so little there, that it's hard to judge him off one game. Against the defending 4x premiers no less.
So, for me it's more of a wait and see imo.

I'm hoping that Pompey, Ali, Rocco, CNK are all ahead of him, with Putoko a smokey, before Leka gets a chance there.

But I guess if they're looking at Leka there, at minimum they might see him as the in game switch to centre if/when required, which is still pretty significant and means he would have trained there a bit over the off season surely

 

[JustLikeStartingOver]

Easy to forget leka could still be playing jersey flegg a bit of playing in the backs won’t hurt him, it’s not a career altering pick. There’s an entire backline on the bench so he probably won’t even be there that long.

Forgot about gannon, be good to see him, I never watch super league

 

[Dannevegas]

Not a big fan of this but it shows our lack of depth there. Hopefully some NSW cup players put their hands up this year.

It’s a trial I don’t get his reluctance. He could try Norris, Kali and Putoko there. I guess we’re not seeing Roger at fb if he’s going with Doyle lol

 

[Billyspleen75]

There is no stats I can provide off a sample of one game. I might pull out the stats if he had played three or four games at centre. This is just an eye test comment. He was invisible in the game he played at centre and looked lost as where to stand and what to do and was the opposite of pro-active when it came to injecting himself into the game. It looked like he had no idea how to play the position.
Putting my positive thinking cap on the best explanation I have is that
1) They are holding Pompey back for Trial number 2
2) Charnze is really going to be the third ranked centre but he is in the All Stars game
3) They had to scrape around this game for who to play at centre and came up with Leka.

1) Pompey is in the All Stars Reserves

And I think points 2 and 3 are accurate

 

[Ref]

I am just so excited to see the young guys getting a shot.

 

[Wrighty]

The person who I am most excited about seeing this weekend is Vaimauga. During the pacific tests the top tier elite power forwards looked incredible. People like Tapine and Whyte and Erin Clarke were beyond impressive. However young Vaimauga held his own and looked like he belonged at this level. People are talking up Leka as being a future star but I think we could be on to something as well with Vaimauga. He could be legit.

 

[Popdukes]

Wild team, why didn’t AKP get a nod?

 

[Wrighty]

Wild team, why didn’t AKP get a nod?

Playing for Indigenious

 

[Popdukes]

Playing for Indigenious

Ah ok, thank you

 

[Popdukes]

The most fragile in that line up is Egan, hope he pulls through or is AW getting his 11 day stand down out of the way in time for the regular season

 

[Popdukes]

Actually Gannon is a little fragile too, fingers, eyes and toes crossed

 

[Noitall]

Actually Gannon is a little fragile too, fingers, eyes and toes crossed

I agree, bugger he doesn’t get to play against mostly first grade players against manly though. The opposed sessions should have given him a bit of a taste at least

 

[Dannevegas]

I am just so excited to see the young guys getting a shot.

Let’s hope they do, And Webby gives them more than 5 minutes like lasts trials.
If there is one down side about Webby, he doesn’t have 1 adventurous bone in his body in terms of selections and game plan

 

[Noitall]

Panthers playing a few of the Warriors recruits they’ve gained. Moimoi centre, Crosby prop and Kalani Going second row. Ale and Lussick must be unavailable?

 

[Tokyo Warrior]

Can Kurt get up again?

 

[Noitall]

Can Kurt get up again?

That’s him in post 55. He came through fairly unscathed

 

[JaggedJ]

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Panthers playing a few of the Warriors recruits they’ve gained. Moimoi centre, Crosby prop and Kalani Going second row. Ale and Lussick must be unavailable?

Get the feeling Ale/Lussick are closer to top team because that's pretty much their NSW Cup team.

Not a single triple barrell name in that Panthers team. What a bunch of losers.