Tonight's Game - Team for Thursday

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Suzieb
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Tonight's Game - Team for Thursday

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My team would be

French
Miski
King
Wardle
Marshall
Field
Smith
HAVARD
Oneil
Byrne
Farrell
Isa
Shorrocks
Smithies
Cooper
Ellis
Powell
Unitedwarrior@66
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Re: Team for thursday

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1 french 2 miski 3 King 4 Wardle 5 Marshall 6 field 7 Smith 8 Cooper 9 oneill 10 Byrne 11 isa 12 farrell 13 shorrocks subs 14 Powell 15 Ellis 16 havard 17 mago
The Pearl1
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Re: Team for thursday

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:)
Unitedwarrior@66 wrote: Tue Mar 28, 2023 10:56 am 1 french 2 miski 3 King 4 Wardle 5 Marshall 6 field 7 Smith 8 Cooper 9 oneill 10 Byrne 11 isa 12 farrell 13 shorrocks subs 14 Powell 15 Ellis 16 havard 17 mago
You’d play Mago over Smithies and KPP?

Have you watched Huddersfield game ?
No straw damn us
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Re: Team for thursday

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The Pearl1 wrote: Tue Mar 28, 2023 2:00 pm :)
Unitedwarrior@66 wrote: Tue Mar 28, 2023 10:56 am 1 french 2 miski 3 King 4 Wardle 5 Marshall 6 field 7 Smith 8 Cooper 9 oneill 10 Byrne 11 isa 12 farrell 13 shorrocks subs 14 Powell 15 Ellis 16 havard 17 mago
You’d play Mago over Smithies and KPP?

Have you watched Huddersfield game ?
Obviously not. Why would you drop Superleagues top tackler?
Charriots Offiah
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Re: Team for thursday

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No straw damn us wrote: Tue Mar 28, 2023 2:17 pm
The Pearl1 wrote: Tue Mar 28, 2023 2:00 pm :)
Unitedwarrior@66 wrote: Tue Mar 28, 2023 10:56 am 1 french 2 miski 3 King 4 Wardle 5 Marshall 6 field 7 Smith 8 Cooper 9 oneill 10 Byrne 11 isa 12 farrell 13 shorrocks subs 14 Powell 15 Ellis 16 havard 17 mago
You’d play Mago over Smithies and KPP?

Have you watched Huddersfield game ?
Obviously not. Why would you drop Superleagues top tackler?
Exactly. There is more chance of me winning the lottery than Morgan being dropped.
morley pie eater
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Re: Team for thursday

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Charriots Offiah wrote: Tue Mar 28, 2023 3:18 pm
No straw damn us wrote: Tue Mar 28, 2023 2:17 pm
The Pearl1 wrote: Tue Mar 28, 2023 2:00 pm :)

You’d play Mago over Smithies and KPP?

Have you watched Huddersfield game ?
Obviously not. Why would you drop Superleagues top tackler?
Exactly. There is more chance of me winning the lottery than Morgan being dropped.
More chance of me winning the Grand National.
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Unitedwarrior@66
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Re: Team for thursday

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Sorry you're right ,forgot about smithies ,I'd still leave him on bench as he gives too many penalties away and yes I went to Huddersfield!!
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NICKYKISS
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Re: Team for thursday

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Smithies has given away more penalties this season (5) than in the whole of 2022 (4), so that is a concern but he’s comfortably in our best 13. We really do under value players like him in this country. Saints fans and ex players have managed to blow up the billing Morgan Knowles gets but Smithies makes more ground, has a higher workrate in attack and defence and makes less errors but isn’t spoke about in such glowing terms. The fact he’s a few years younger cannot be dismissed either.

As for this weeks team, the French to fullback and Field to 6 change should be from the start. Cust is way off and we need these 2 around the ball as much as possible and around each other.

I’d go-

French
Miski King Wardle Marshall
Field Smith
Byrne Powell Ellis
Isa Farrell Smithies

Subs
Cooper Havard Pearce-Paul O’Neill

We need to be tight on that right side, so I’d bring Isa back in. They have Lam, Leutele and Charnley over on their left and they’ve been going well. We have to cut out the errors and daft penalties or it could be a long night.
Charriots Offiah
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Re: Team for thursday

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Unitedwarrior@66 wrote: Tue Mar 28, 2023 8:31 pm Sorry you're right ,forgot about smithies ,I'd still leave him on bench as he gives too many penalties away and yes I went to Huddersfield!!
254 tackles and 5 penalties, less than 1 every 50 tackles he makes. Compare that with Cooper 117 tackles and 6 penalties or Lees 174 tackles and 5 penalties. It is a fallacy that he gives away too many penalties. I am willing to have a 10p bet that, as a percentage of tackles made, he is at the lower end of the scale compared with other forwards. I will leave it to Morley to calculate :D
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