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Message: [QUOTE="BroncsFan, post: 3631282, member: 9052"] I find the NSW bench interesting. A lot of talk about them having big forwards on the bench, but is it that big or are pundits just talking about it because they've picked 4 forwards? I'm guessing Yeo will come on for McInness and so McIness is basically their utility? and Yeo their lock... or Jake will move to lock and Yeo prop. I'm assuming Haumole will come on for Martin and he will move into the prop rotation. But I'm not sure where Young comes into it... maybe he comes on for Crichton and he moves into the middle? but Crichton is surely more dangerous than Young. A lot of talk about Cobbo on the bench, but Young looks a bit redundant on the NSW side of things. They've got a lot of edge forwards in their team and basically 2 props (Haas and Leniu)... How Leniu goes will be interesting. I can see Qld targetting him for sure, to try and force him into an error early or to just chew up his engine, which is only about 30mins in NRL land. The hooker will surely be a target for Qld... Robson the only recognised one named with McIness likely providing a breather at some point. If the game is going to be in the middle Robson and McInness will be in for a lot of work, being the smaller guys in that middle defence. So the middle forward battle to me looks like the below and I don't necessarily think that NSW has a 'bigger' pack when it basically boils down to Young (as a 4th forward) vs 100kg 6'2" Cobbo (bigger in both metrics compared to Young). NSW - Haas - Jurbo - Yeo - Leniu - Martin - McInness Qld - Collins - Cotter - Patty - Fotuiaka - Hopgood - Cobbo/Bhunt (for 15-20mins stint somewhere in the middle... which has been stock standard for Qld for years) [/QUOTE]

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