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Message: [QUOTE="Morkel, post: 2632940, member: 8215"] I've never seen the wisdom of choosing players who play in dominant teams yet aren't the dominant players in that team. It's basically the Storm principle - many players are made to look better than they are simply because of the players around them. To me, Woods is a good selection, he's a standout in an otherwise unremarkable pack. And he doesn't look good just in comparison, but he has single-handedly dominated opposition packs. I can even make a case for Beau Scott, even though he is a cowardly cheap-shot merchant. Guerra on the other hand has only looked good in his rep career when Inglis has been outside him as his decoy. Without JWH, SBW, Moa etc at the Roosters, he'd be nothing. I have the same reservations about Cordner but I do believe he's better than Guerra. Mansour I believe deserves his spot, as he is one of the reasons the Panthers are successful. He makes plenty of metres (he's a rare workhorse winger like Vidot) and breaks huge amounts of tackles - and he does it single-handedly, not just because he's behind a massive pack who give him space. I think we may be seeing problems with Walker, and will do similarly if Alex Johnson plays. They're both great finishers, and fast as buggery, but we all know what happened to Souths of they didn't dominate posession - they were basically useless and were like butter defensively. Walker I know was out of position for much of the game, but even at centre he wasn't very convincing. And I guess if you look at the rep career of DCE, it may well be a similar case. We'll get a pretty good preview of his stand-alone worth when he plays behind a depleted Manly team next year. I don't even know who I would name for the second game though, as Sheens' squad, as has been said by others, is horribly imbalanced. [/QUOTE]

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