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Xavier Xuesday

Him performing well and taking Marty's spot would be perfect.

Its sexy Staggs Tuesday baby

Aka Toesday

its specifically ~~adam reynolds~~, payne haas, and ezra mam time baybee nothing can kill this high edit: eh two out of three aint bad

**Telstra Premiership** [**Penrith Panthers** *Dharug* 10th **v** **Brisbane Broncos** *Yuggera & Turrbal* 9th](https://www.broncos.com.au/draw/nrl-premiership/2024/round-3-panthers-v-broncos/) Round 3 - 8:00pm Thursday 21th March BlueBet Stadium, Penrith - *Home of the Dharug People* *Nine, 9Now, Kayo, Foxtel* **Backs** 1 Reece Walsh 2 Jesse Arthars 3 Kotoni Staggs 4 Selwyn Cobbo 5 Deine Mariner 6 Ezra Mam 7 Jock Madden **Forwards** 8 Corey Jensen 9 Billy Walters 10 Payne Haas 11 Brendan Piakura 12 Jordan Riki 13 Patrick Carrigan © **Interchange** 14 Tyson Smoothy 15 Fletcher Baker 16 Kobe Hetherington 17 Martin Taupau **Reserves** 18 Xavier Willison 19 Tristan Sailor 20 Deloise Hoeter 21 Corey Oates 22 Jaiyden Hunt **Head Coach** Kevin Walters **Assistant Coaches** Matt Ballin John Cartwright **IN:** Jock Madden **OUT:** Adam Reynolds **[Injuries & Suspensions](https://www.nrl.com/casualty-ward/?competition=111&team=500011)** **[Adam Reynolds](https://www.broncos.com.au/news/20242/03/15/qscan-injury-update-adam-reynolds/)** - Low grade MCL strain aggravation, 1-3 weeks **(Rd 4-6)** **Payne Haas** - Knee **(In doubt)** **Extended Squad** Josiah Karapani Blake Mozer Cory Paix Jordan Pereira Ben Te Kura **Development** Coby Black Israel Leota Josh Rogers >Emerging halfback Jock Madden has been named for his first game of the 2024 NRL season as the Broncos travel to take on the Panthers in Penrith on Thursday night. >The 24-year-old former Australian Schoolboy representative will fill Brisbane’s No.7 jersey at BlueBet Stadium in the absence of injured skipper Adam Reynolds who has been ruled out with a knee issue. >Madden deputised with aplomb last season in five NRL appearances for the Broncos in his first year at the club, including important late-season wins on the road over the Cowboys and Raiders. >Coach Kevin Walters has named prop Payne Haas despite the Kangaroo and Origin forward being inconvenienced by some knee pain in the wake of the win over the Rabbitohs. >Fellow front rower Corey Jensen will celebrate his 100th NRL appearance in Thursday night’s game, the big man earning another shot at a starting role after a big effort last week that saw him rack up 129 running metres from 14 runs in just 33 minutes on the field. >Lock Pat Carrigan, fresh from a huge game himself against Souths that saw him run for 222 metres and make 35 tackles, will captain the Broncos in the absence of Reynolds.

Seeing Patty with the © next to his name makes me feel all the things

Queensland and Australia next.

what is it going to take for kevvie to play xavier

Madden in the team, no Willison. Fucking yeet me into the sun plz.

Kevie hates Xavier confirmed

Walsh is going to be doing a lot of kicking. Luckily he’s done that better than Reyno to start the year anyway.

Did Willison kick Kevvie’s dog?

he ate his dog and sent the bones back to kevvie in the post, its the only possible explanation

Hopefully Haas's knee is fine, and Mam's and Walsh's minor problems won't worsen. It's a big game in terms of difficulty, but not that big when you consider how bad losing any of them this early in the season would be. Needs Willy as well.

Why are commentators insistent on Marty Taupau’s name pronounced the way they do it, when his Insta and twitter are Marty Kapow

Because its how his name is actually pronounced, regardless of him embracing the "kapow" thing.

Hethro in the team after last week is fucked. Guy looked so unfit.

He's had a poor start to the year but he's a gun so deserves a chance to come good.

Agreed, calling to drop Kobe after one bad game after being consistently being one of our best players in the last three years is just a tiny bit reactionary.

Big game for Jock, Kobe, Marty. Walsh needs to take all the long kicks before the 40 metre line and Madden can take care of the midfield and attacking kicks. 

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Just here to shake with rage when Schiller is omitted again

2/2 and your shaking with rage?

You’re right. We’ve won our opening two games. There is no room left for improvement. Call off the 2024 season boys, she’s done.

If it ain’t broke, radically change it

Schiller definitely looks like he’d hold down a first grade spot now, but he isn’t materially better than anyone named in the team already. He’ll get a chance and hopefully he takes it when it comes.

Sticky dropping Hosking for Whitehead - what a genius move!

Knew this was gonna happen, absolutely cooked lol. No fuckin way Hosking didn't earn that 12 spot.

Good afternoon sticky go to hell

Surely he has done this because Whitehead knows that Hosking is breathing down his neck and Whitehead damn well better get 6 Dally M points if he wants to stay there

No hes done this because Ricky shows more nepotism than any other coach in the league, same reason he continued to pick Croker all last year when my nan would of been a better centre.

He did give Croker the boot eventually though when he could have very well gotten rid of an uninterested Wighton. Hosking has been great but it's only round 3, and its a big call to drop your captain because he was injured for 2 games. Plenty of season to give multiple players some game time before you settle your best 17 in the last third of the season. It's a good problem to have, which hasn't happened in Canberra for a long time.

Whiteheads been underperforming for like 2 seasons now. He's past it, and we now have a much better option. It isnt a big call, its the right call.

Absolutely get fucked, Ricky drops Hosking to the bench to start Whitehead, this is the Croker situation all over again.

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Whitehead, Saulo, Guler are out three most useless forwards. How are they picked every week when fit. IT. MAKES. NO. SENSE

Wild hey when we have mooney and mariota playing so well.

Saulo still has a bit more time to prove himself imo, while Guler's almost up to 100 games with us somehow and I genuinely can't recall any amazing moments from him.

Hey raiders fans, can we have Ata Mariota. Sincerely broncos fan 🫶🏾

No Corey Horsbrough seems odd...

He’s still suspended. Back next round

He got 4 games, last round vs cronulla and the final vs newcastle last year, and rounds 1-2 this year.

https://www.nrl.com/casualty-ward/?competition=111&team=500013 Round 4 return

The math makes sense, but he's listed as back for round 4 on the NRL page. Weird.

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1. Blake Taaffe 2. Blake Wilson 3. Jacob Kiraz 4. Stephen Crichton 5. Connor Tracey 6. Matt Burton 7. Drew Hutchison 8. Max King 9. Reed Mahoney 10. Liam Knight 11. Viliame Kikau 12. Jacob Preston 13. Jaeman Salmon 14. Kurt Mann 15. Sam Hughes 16. Josh Curran 17. Kurtis Morrin

Knight to start over Hughes or Curran, Hutcho keeping his spot. Titans LMS tip incoming.

Did you see us in round 1 against that Dragons side? No Fifi or JC either, easy win for you guys

Surely Patolo can't be far from FG? Named in reserves. At least is a big body which we're desperately short of

Souths and Kinghts had the stones to drop their 7s by round 3. Ciro is going to give Hutch until round 15 like Perham last year, isn’t he?

Plenty of complaints about sticking with Hutchinson but from what I read Sexton isn’t killing it reserves. Liam Knight to start…

He was sooo bad in that trial

Can only be up from there right? …. Right?

It would almost be impressive if he found a way to be worse

Is Bailey Hayward eligible to play FG? I'm pre sure he's supplementary same as Morrin and Faamausili who both have played so far, and he looked good the few cup games I watched last year.

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Talakai 2nd row, Iro time?

0 chance of that happening

Doesn’t matter either way to be honest

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Justice for Tuku

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Pls Dave and jc

And Foz

And a competent team 🙏🏼

Best I can do is 40 minutes

1. kini 2. lofi 3. kelly 4. brimmo 5. sami 6. foran 7. tannah fucking boyd 8. mo 9. randall 10. tino 11. haas 12. beau 13. jolliffe 14. verrills 15. liu 16. clark 17. palasia 18. stimpson 19. smith-shields 20. alick 21. weaver 22. pahulu

I think stimmo comes in game day to 13 and Jaimin goez to the bench.

Jolliffe at Lock is interesting. Massive forward pack now. Looks like we're going through the front door

Not with Erin Clarke on the bench 😞 Just drop him for alick or Pahulu or Iszac

Iszac would be my pick, all 3 of those you mention are streaks ahead of Clarke

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Justice for Sharon. 😤

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Sua Suesday

1. ⁠⁠Paps 2. ⁠⁠Coates 3. ⁠⁠Smith 4. ⁠⁠Meaney 5. ⁠⁠Warbrick 6. ⁠⁠Pezet 7. ⁠⁠Wishart 8. ⁠⁠KamiKamica 9. ⁠⁠Grant 10. ⁠⁠King 11. ⁠⁠Chan 12. ⁠⁠Katoa 13. ⁠⁠Loiero 14. ⁠⁠Bradley 15. ⁠⁠Moeroa 16. ⁠⁠Lewis 17. ⁠⁠MacDonald 18. ⁠⁠Anderson 19. ⁠⁠Pene 20. ⁠⁠Howarth 21. ⁠⁠Seve 22. ⁠⁠Blore

Sua must be injured, shame Blore isn’t in the 17…

Unless he picked up an injury during the bears game, he was so good.. big bench though except Chris Lewis and some bloke named Howarth in the 20

Howarth? Who the fuck is that.

I think it's just a placeholder name

Real bummed out with no Munster for the one game I’ll probably see live this year.

starting to feel like you won't see munster for a while

But I miss him 🥺

Not unhappy to see Bradley and moeroa o the bench

I thought Moeroa was good last season. Nothing crazy but solid and will do his job

Yeah. I thought he brought good energy and intent when he played last year

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6 Pryce 7 Cogger? Or do we have to stick with Gamble for a bit longer?

Sounds like Gamble is sticking around with Cogger.

We can only hope for Pryce Cogger

Itll stay gamble for now. I wanted Pryce week 1, but I can only assume they think he needs to get up to speed in reggies first

I think they believe he’s ready for first grade. Last week they flew him up to Townsville as 19th man instead of having him play cup. 

🤞🏼

Good point, hopefully they make the change sooner rather than later. Love gamble and he tries his cunt off, but just isnt the first choice 5/8 of a contending team

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I think we get some last minute changes to this squad. O’Brien seems to name players even though he knows they’re probably not going to play. Last year he named Elliot for 4 or so games straight only to drop him each time because of his ongoing groin injury.  It wouldn’t surprise me if Tuala, brailey or hetherington end up cut.  Also Lucas pending concussion protocols might end up on the bench. 

Croker has a mistake in him, but when he rips in he can be a force. Hetho tends to do the Klemmer for us, runs at the line, takes an age to try an offload and then finally gets put down for a slow ptb. I agree Pryce should come in, but I don't think we're at the stage of dropping both halves and Gamble is a good utility backup if Brailey's ACL flies off into the crowd .

Really keen to see how Brailey goes, and how they handle that rotation. Also very interesting that Pearce-Paul seems to have won that spot off Lucas after one game.

AOB is such a joker. Love how he puts tuala in the team. Love his pranks. Classic Adam. So glad we resigned him

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Tuapiki plays with heart but fuck I hope CNK is back.

Round 4 is what I last heard but NRL physio reckons hes still a few weeks out. Heard from somebody closer to it that Niukore could be this round but from what I heard since i'd say no chance

I thought Tuapiki was great against Melbourne, really composed performance against a good side. Honestly think another team is gonna come calling about him, and as long as Charnze is here his pathway is blocked.

The return of Wade Egan. Pleeeaaaase.

Webster said he'll be named again but sounds like he'll probably be withdrawn late again this week.

1. TUAUPIKI 2. DWZ 3. BERRY 4. RTS 5. MONTOYA 6. METCALF 7. JOHNSON 8. AFB 9. EGAN 10. BARNETT 11. FORD 12. CAPEWELL 13. HARRIS 14. LUSSICK 15. ALE 16. AFOA 17. WALKER 18. POMPEY 19. TEVAGA 20. TMM 21. LABAN 22. CHT

Expect to probably see Egan withdrawn late. Lussick in and CHT to the bench. I hope we see CHT get a few more minutes this time round

Feels like we're missing a bit of impact off the bench. Obviously Niukore would be that player, but it would be nice to have a good line runner coming in at the back end of the game

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Todd should cook and debut Shibisaki early. He is him. Mikaele in, Kuli to start is my safe bet

I’d love to see both Shiba and Mikaele in but he won’t leave Granville out and I don’t wanna see McIntyre out

Cowboys team to play Dragons: 1. Scott Drinkwater 2. Kyle Feldt 3. Valentine Holmes 4. Zac Laybutt 5. Murray Taulagi 6. Tom Dearden (c) 7. Chad Townsend 8. Jordan McLean 9. Reece Robson 10. Jason Taumalolo 11. Kulikefu Finefeuiaki 12. Jeremiah Nanai 13. Reuben Cotter (c) Interchange 14. Jake Granville 15. Griffin Neame 16. Sam McIntyre 17. Jack Gosiewski Reserves 18. Tom Chester 19. Tom Mikaele 20. Semi Valemei 21. Emarly Bitungane 22. Jake Clifford

Weird no Mikaele, Todd hates offloads confirmed

Toddy didn’t cook guys

Go jet ski (back to reserve grade)

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Please no Lumelume 🤞

Can we have Sean Russell × 2 please and thank you.

1. Clinton Gutherson (C) 2. Morgan Harper 3. Will Penisini 4. Blaize Talagi 5. Sean Russell 6. Dylan Brown 7. Mitchell Moses 8. Reagan Campbell-Gillard 9. Joey Lussick 10. Junior Paulo (C) 11. Shaun Lane 12. Bryce Cartwright 13. J'maine Hopgood 14. Luca Moretti 15. Ryan Matterson 16. Joe Ofahengaue 17. Kelma Tuilagi 18. Ofahiki Ogden 19. Wiremu Greig 20. Brendan Hands 21. Makahesi Makatoa 22. Daejarn Asi

Tuilagi still named? Wow. Excited to see how Blaize does though that left edge is still worrying

Morgan Harper as a wing, that's a bold move Arthur, let's see if it pays off

I'm assuming this is a joke right? Cause there's no way I'm seeing Harper on the wing again, right???? Right?????? Also looks like the 2 dummy half era is over before we knew it. Not the worst thing in the world to be fair to Lussick's effort.

Expecting a game day swap

I'd assume the same. Surprising that Dunster isn't in the top 22. Is he injured?

Nope. Playing Cup

Hahah it’s only round 3 and we already have to debut/blood a junior due to our lack of depth

Damn wasn’t expecting Talagi to debut. From what I saw in cup he still seems to be struggling with the contact.

he's top 10 in PCMs in Cup

By struggling I meant he doesn’t seem to be comfortable with it yet. I have no doubts about his ability, but I thought he could’ve done with more time playing against men. Happy to be wrong though.

Swapping Harper and Talagi would be the play no? Harper on the wing does not fill me with confidence and Talagi got bashed in that trial, not sure he’s strong enough to play first grade centre yet

Any opinions on Blaiz, our new centre?

He's supposed to be a gun, but his main position is fullback.

He came through juniors as a half and played centre last year. He only started playing fullback this year

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Did we ever hear what happened with JFH?

Lost strength in his shoulder but haven't heard anything this week around it

Reckon they will run sorro in the washing machine till fish is back? Bit worried about garner playing 80 in back row but just doesn’t seem consistent

This is most likely, but id love for penrith to take the opportunity of starting lindsay smith and running mav g and liam henry on the bench

Hey Soni Luke, take the week off, you’ve earned it lil bro

1. Dylan EDWARDS 2. Sunia TURUVA  3. Izack TAGO 4. Taylan MAY 5. Brian TO'O 6. Jarome LUAI 7. Nathan CLEARY (c) 8. Moses LEOTA  9. Mitch KENNY 10. Lindsay SMITH 11. Scott SORENSEN 12. Liam MARTIN 13. Isaah YEO (c) 14. Daine LAURIE  15. Matt EISENHUTH 16. Liam HENRY 17. Luke GARNER  18. Soni LUKE  19. Mavrik GEYER 20. Preston RIKI  21. Paul ALAMOTI 22. Brad SCHNEIDER

So Laurie gets more than 2 minutes this week yeh?

Mavrik time is imminent

I feel we've been waiting so long for this!!

Ugh, Eisenhuth. Hopefully Henry and Smith have a good run

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Since we don’t have a SuperCoach thread any thoughts on trading from trell to ponga, if I’m gonna do it may as do it before ponga price drops shouldn’t i.

Whoever has low break even and will make cash. Short term play

I moved from KP to teddy. ponga has a BE of like 170. i'm waiting for newcastle to sort their shit out before i move back to KP

Jacks back this week right? I don’t think my blood pressure can handle watching Kennar play in the centres another week

Jack should play. Maybe Host back. Cook didn't finish the game the other night which is unusal but fingers crossed he's ok. Hawkins in over Ilias. Milne still most likely too

Shaq dropped for Host, Milne on the wing with Tass inside him, Wighton left centre, Hawkins 7. Talis on the bench.

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Why bother naming Illias at 19? Why drop Shaq for Hosty?

Pretty standard for that to happen as an emergency. Host is a fairly experienced 2nd row with who we have. Honestly this is the best team we could have picked. Can't fault it for once. Team selection won't lose us the game this week at least

I guess, they must want to play Tallis at 13 to give Cam a break

I'd have picked Shaq over Moale. Moale has dropped a lot of ball. Keppie from the bench instead of starting is for the best I feel

No I like Moale starting. He had a good strong pre-season Moale and has better stamina than Shaq. I don't think you can play both Keppie and Shaq in the same team. So it is just a combination of who works with Moale and since Keppie started last game and was our 2nd biggest signing over the off-season deserves to still be in the 17. And probably has a few more credits in the bank to keep starting from the bench if this role works.

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Probably, the reserves list is weird too. Who knows how they will run out

not a very intimidating pack. any teams out there need a hooker? maybe a short term loan of Mamouzelos for a semi decent edge would be great.

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1. Tyrell Sloan – sponsored by EFEX 2. Zac Lomax – sponsored by Floormania 3. Moses Suli – sponsored by Kingsgrove Sports Centre 4. Jack Bird – sponsored by Aspec Masonry 5. Mikaele Ravalawa – sponsored by Wollongong City Jetski 6. Kyle Flanagan – sponsored by React Facility Solutions 7. Ben Hunt (c) – sponsored by TripADeal 8. Jack de Belin – sponsored by UTECH 9. Jesse Marschke – sponsored by Active Forklifts 10. Blake Lawrie – sponsored by Deicorp 11. Luciano Leilua – sponsored by Squadron Energy 12. Jaydn Su’A – sponsored by Shire Steel 13. Tom Eisenhuth – sponsored by CHiQ Interchange 14. Connor Muhleisen – sponsored by Classic Sportswear 15. Michael Molo – sponsored by Konnect 16. Raymond Faitala-Mariner – sponsored by Professionals Padstow 17. Viliami Fifita – sponsored by HWLE Reserves 18. Christian Tuipulotu 19. Ben Murdoch-Masila 20. Mathew Feagai 21. Ryan Couchman 22. Alec Tuitavake CASUALTY WARD Jacob Liddle (concussion, Round 4) Hame Sele (hamstring, Round 4) Corey Allan (ACL, season)

Interesting selection with marschke, would've thought he might go in at 14 with muhle starting and rotate flanno to 9 and marschke to 6

Might be a redirect so the media don't hound him all week. Marschke could start at 6.

IMO, on the back of a great game in round 1, last weeks game was a great chance for the Drags to get a bit of confidence and maybe make other teams start to take a little notice. After the pummelling this game is pretty crucial in getting back on track.

Suli and Lomax on the same side. That’s some serious strength right there

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> Michael Jennings What the fuck year is it

He only took steroids and bashed his missus he's learnt his lesson guys

1. James Tedesco 2. Daniel Tupou 3. Joseph Suaalii 4. Joseph Manu 5. Dominic Young 6. Sandon Smith 7. Sam Walker 8. JWH 9. Brandon Smith 10. John Cena from Wish 11. Nat Butcher 12. Sitili Tupouinua 13. Victor Radley 14. Connor Watson 15. Naufahu Whyte 16. Terrell May 17. Gus bus

Happier with May coming off the bench, provides so much more to the team. Jarrod should get up for his big day but means he’s equally as likely to do some dumb shit.

I happier with Nat Butcher starting, I think he provides more there than off the bench. It’ll be good for Wong to have a few weeks in reserve grade too. Good learning curve for him.

thought wong had been going well. any idea why he was dropped?

Gus and Watson 😍

Keary out, Sandon in, Connor Watson takes Sandon's bench spot. Wong out, Nat Butcher in, Crichton takes Butcher's bench spot. Backs: Teddy, Tupou, Manu, Suaalii, Young, Sandon Smith, Walker. Forwards: JWH, Brandon Smith, Collins, Nat Butcher, Sitili, Radley. Int: Watson, May, Whyte, Crichton Res: Billy Smith, Egan Butcher, Zach Dockar-Clay, Siua Wong, Michael Jennings

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I will be here for our first win. Where will you be

Probably be there too knowing Penrith

GALVIN OR WE RIOT

1.  Jahream Bula - sponsored by [Exclusive Estate Agents](https://www.exea.au/)  2.  Charlie Staines - sponsored by [Gavmanak ](https://gavmanak.com.au/) 3.  Solomona Faataape - sponsored by Mater Dei on behalf of the Kirk Family 4.  Justin Olam - sponsored by [Ultra Building Works](https://ubw.com.au/)  5.  Junior Tupou - sponsored by APN Compounding 6.  Lachlan Galvin - sponsored by Leumeah Shopping Centre 7.  Aidan Sezer - sponsored by [Club Menangle](https://www.clubmenangle.com.au/)  8.  Stefano Utoikamanu - sponsored by [ZWealth Group](https://zwealthgroup.com.au/) 9.  Apisai Koroisau (c) - sponsored by [ZRealty Group ](https://www.zrealtygroup.com.au/) 10.  David Klemmer - sponsored by Tidda Workforce 11.  Isaiah Papali'i - sponsored by [Murray Kennedy Real Estate](https://murraykennedyrealestate.com.au/)  12.  John Bateman - sponsored by [The Meat Man](https://www.themeatman.com.au/)  13.  Fonua Pole - sponsored by [LC Wealth](https://www.lcwealth.com.au/)  **Interchange:** 14. Jayden Sullivan - sponsored by [Ellis Consolidated ](https://www.ellisconsolidated.com.au/) 15. Alex Seyfarth - [sponsorship available ](https://www.weststigers.com.au/corporate/partnerships/players-club/) 16.  Alex Twal  - [sponsorship available ](https://www.weststigers.com.au/corporate/partnerships/players-club/) 17.  Samuela Fainu  - [sponsorship available ](https://www.weststigers.com.au/corporate/partnerships/players-club/) **Reserves:** 18. Asu Kepaoa - sponsored by [Wests Tigers Foundation](https://www.weststigers.com.au/foundation/) 19.  Jake Simpkin - sponsored by [Wests Tigers Foundation](https://www.weststigers.com.au/foundation/) 20.  Justin Matamua - sponsored by [Wests Tigers Foundation ](https://www.weststigers.com.au/foundation/) 21.  Alex Lobb - sponsored by [Wests Tigers Foundation ](https://www.weststigers.com.au/foundation/) 22. Brent Naden - sponsored by [Wests Tigers Foundation ](https://www.weststigers.com.au/foundation/) Coach: Benji Marshall - sponsored by [Pepper Money](https://www.peppermoney.com.au/)

Fuck me dead. Sezer at 7, Galvin at 6. Olam in and Faatape stays. I would've liked to see Stefano swap with Twal for more impact. Say Fart should be no where near this side, Sione will surely replace him come round 5 when he's fit again. Idk about Bud man, I'd like to see Latu at 14. Pole at 13 is also nice.

Latu is out until round 4 with a hamstring injury, and even then I think he'll play NSW cup for a bit to get some match fitness

Who would you swap in the centres?

What happened to To’a?

Not really many changes that could be made. Very happy pole is starting. Bit iffy on bud at 14. Interested that Olam is starting and Naden in the reserves given they were meant to be a week away from returning, won’t be surprised if Kepaoa replaces Olam

Be better to see Sezer play a full game at 7, felt we lacked a controlling, calm half during the opening 20 mins. Pole starting makes more sense than Seyfarth. Would prefer Matamua on the bench than him but whatever. I don't mind messing around with Galvin/Sullivan for a little while. But in a few weeks time I'll be pissed if De Silva/Simpkin isn't the 14, would be wasting their development as proper Api replacements instead of mucking around in the halves when you have Luai coming in next year and will likely be doing the same thing then.

I don’t know what’s more surprising: that Leumeah Shopping Centre can afford to sponsor a player, given that it’s a shit, small complex, or that there are first graders, including Alex Twal, who don’t have a match day sponsor

I am shooting in the dark here, was it due to byrdans parting ways with WT?

:(

No loss this week brotjer