Reasonable group of us.
This could be a very long season to be a Warriors fan I fear, I told my flatmates last night that if our starting back row for our first game was Luck, Mannering and Matulino I'm out for the season. Have we learnt nothing? BALL PLAYING BACK ROWER! Ukuma Tai has to be on the bench, but Im thinking Cleary will go with Lillyman. A bench that is likely to include, Packer and Lillyman does nothing to excite me. My starting team for game one would be:
McKinnon, Locke, Manu, Tate, Jerome, Moon, Seymour, Price, Henderson, Rapira, Mannering, Matulino, Luck. Bench: Hohaia, Tai, Packer and Elijah Taylor maybe, I could be persuaded on that 4th spot.
That team if it were to start would need some serious instructions to Mannering and Matulino that they are not to use themselves as battering rams and should be playing 2 and 3 off the ruck running at halfbacks. Like teams did to Stacy last season. I would also give Kevin Locke basically a roving commission and tell him to become our Billy Slater, he is that good and could be that effective if he can get a good combo going with Moon/Seymour.
Don't expect to see miracles from Tate, takes players a long time to come back from knee reconstructions. Look at Wade! I am expecting big things from Jerome and Manu though who after having a free off-season should be niggle free, fresh and ready to cause absolute chaos.
Will be interesting to see what they do with Johnson as he undoubtedly has talent but he could very easily be targeted and quickly lose confidence.
On a side note, how good is the Bunnies pack this year?! Burgess, Taylor, Asotasi, Luke and Im pretty sure im missing someone. Dead set quality!
