General Your 2025 team

[Canonball]

It's definitely going to be a very new look first team this year ... was thinking what a complete change while utilizing the current squad would entail ... you could try to go utterly defensive, forget about any flair or even balance and just shut other teams down... you'd want someone at the back fast enough and safe under high balls... stick a couple of bigger bodies in the centres, flanked by mobile and fit second rowers and a couple of powerful tacklers in the halves, shore the wing edges with two who could hold to the outside and make metres from the back and for the rest just go as solid defensively and as big as you can go... a side that could do that might look like this lol (not advocating for this at all btw):

1. TT
2. Berry
3. Capewell
4. CNK
5. RTS
6. TMM
7.CHT

8.JFH
9.Egan
10. Barnett
11. Ford
12. Laban
13. Clark

14 Walker
15 Vaimauga
16. Afoa
17. Ale

 

[Noitall]

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[MrFrankWhite]

1. TT
2. DWZ
3. Ali
4. CNK
5. RTS
6. Metcalf
7. TMM

8. JFH
9. Egan
10. Ford
11. Capewell
12. Halasima
13. Ale

14. Clark
15. Vaimauga
16. Barnett
17. Niukore

 

[Inruin]

TT
RTS
Ali
CNK
DWZ
LM
TMM
JFH
Egan
Ford
Capewell
Halesima
Barnett

Walker
Clark
Prince
Lussick

1. TT
2. DWZ
3. Ali
4. CNK
5. RTS
6. Metcalf
7. TMM

8. JFH
9. Egan
10. Ford
11. Capewell
12. Halasima
13. Ale

14. Clark
15. Vaimauga
16. Barnett
17. Niukore

I think that's pretty much where I'm at as well for my 17 apart from no Walker. I'd have him on my bench and probably Niukore drops off. I think realistically there is 15 there we probably agree on and then you have Ford, Niukore, Ale, Lussick, Healy, Laban pushing for the other two spots. And that depends on whether we need bench hooker cover or if Clark can cover for 10-15 minutes to spell Egan

 

[Canonball]

Burning questions facing Warriors after superstar exits

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It's cute but maddening that the aussie commentators all automatically put RTS at FB, as far as I can tell that's only because Brandy called a couple of games when he filled in there last season and he ran for over 300, (without really setting up an outside or being continual 1 on 1 threat) ... those ozzies, they love an individual story don't they? Simply so they can call a success off the back of a favourite... completely ignoring what is good for a team, or maximising other possible contributions... in other words they listen to their own spin a bit much without really looking at any particular team set-up, and that tendancy is only amplified when you've got sports media personaities wanting to promote their own individual schticks... not that RTS isn't a legitimate option at the back, howver we know that it is far from an automatic choice... I'd love to see Taine there as first pick myself

 

[Canonball]

1. TT
2. DWZ
3. Ali
4. CNK
5. RTS
6. Metcalf
7. TMM

8. JFH
9. Egan
10. Ford
11. Capewell
12. Halasima
13. Ale

14. Clark
15. Vaimauga
16. Barnett
17. Niukore

Yep I could get behind this - a good team - for me Ali needs to be first picked in the backs and Halasima should start too ... looking forward to the explosive plays they can both bring

 

[watcher]

Hopefully the first selections will be on pre season form and go grom there. My found 1 guess
TT
DWZ
Berry
Ali
RTS
LM
Boyd
JFH
Lussick
Barnett
Capeqell
Halasima
Clarke

Ale
Egan
Zyon Maiu’u
Cht

 

[Ref]

TT
DWZ
Ali
Berry/Pompey/CNK
RTS
Metcalf
TMM
JFH
Egan
Barnett
Capewah
Halasima
Clark

Walker
Ale
Niukore
Demetric