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Message: [QUOTE="Fitzy, post: 3587394, member: 9881"] Arthars (Strange), Willison and Staggs in the all-stars game. Arthars is a weird one considering he was apparently racing the clock for round one. Maybe he is a bit ahead of schedule and it’s a good way to get 20-30 minutes into him, not great news for him about claiming that wing spot if his only designated minutes before rd 1 are in an all star game the same weekend as our starting 17’s last trial. Kotoni should get heaps of minutes potentially close to full 80 considering Staggs, Hammer and Tass are the centres with Alofiana and Addo as the wingers so Hammer is the only one with coverage versatility so you’d expect him to probably have a stint on the wing at some stage. You’d expect Staggs and Hamiso to start and Tass probably bench with Hamiso interchange in and out of wing position for interchange purposes, might even play a bit of fullback with Nicho being the only other player who could cover fullback if Latrell went off. So minutes could be high for Kotoni which is what we want and need really. Willison is one of 6 middles - Royce Hunt, Trey Mooney, Joseph Tapine, Jazz Tevaga (back up hooker by the looks), Leo Thompson and X. Royce and Tapine are the likely ones to get the most minutes, Thompson, X and Mooney as rotation and I guess now that I’m thinking about it Tevaga probably isn’t likely to get that many minutes through the middle considering Chooks won’t want a large stint from Brandon at hooker. Bailey Butler as well as a T&T for us will be playing in the game for the indigenous all. Good to see Selwyn not playing definitely would have been an irrational decision to send him off to play for the all stars without a trial with us. I actually think he will be fine defensively, his most complete game in the NRL nearly still to this day was when he played centre in 2021 against the Knights. [/QUOTE]

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