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Message: [QUOTE="BroncsFan, post: 3273222, member: 9052"] Looking at the NSW team it seems a bit odd... I think if QLD was full strength we would absolutely hammer that side. Yes it's missing some players, but it's probably only Victor at 13 and Crichton in the 2nd row. I feel like the Qld team is better balanced at full strength.. NSW as usual are trying to shoehorn as many 'star' players in as possible. Teddy, Turbo, Latrell, and Cleary are all no brainers for the positions they've been picked in. To'o is a very good winger with a great work rate and try scoring ability, but he's pretty short. In fact neither NSW winger is renowned in the air. JAC is a left side specialist so he'll be up against Coates or Feldt... I would really prefer Feldt in this match up given he can actually catch the ball. Other side will have Val, who's not as great in the air, but I'm sure he can out leap To'o NSW centers are very strong and I think it would be their full strength pairing so no issues with that. Luai at 6 is a little odd to me. Panthers play exclusively with Luai on the left and Cleary doing everything in the middle and right... it might even be their fullback that plays right side with Cleary mainly living in the middle? But either way the Panthers right side looks pretty barren for most of the game, and that's where Turbo is going to be. Likely Turbo floats around the field to increase his involvement though. I think that will put massive pressure on Cleary. He can do it at club land, but can he do it in origin?? We have some middle forwards that put on great kick pressure through the middle in Mahoney, Welch, Harry and Tino... so I expect Cleary to have a pretty busy night. It could leave Luai just sitting on his left edge waiting for the ball to come to him. I think the biggest threat will be Cook and Teddy through the middle. Although Cook has seriously dropped his running output over the last couple years. He will still take advantage when a guy like Offa is star fishing in the ruck though. Jurbo at prop is a bit odd and the whole back row of Tariq, Murray and Yeo doesn't really scare me. Usually the NSW back row is their biggest threat or representing the biggest gulf in class for NSW over QLD. Haas on the bench?? He's not all that much of an impact prop for us. We get value out of his work rate and perpetual motion going forward, but he doesn't really generate quick ptb's or have an offload, plus his defence just isn't great. Paulo on the other hand will cause us trouble, but his form has been a bit down for eels in recent time. I think Paulo was in better form last year so it will be interesting to see if he's a guy that will turn it on in an origin game or just carry over his club form. Out of all their props DSaif appears their biggest threat and he was very good in patches last year... I think he got dominated in game 3 though?? and just had horrendous work rate. He looks their biggest threat in the middle so hopefully guys like Tino, Arrow and Welch will be getting into him to throw him off his game again. Martin just seems odd on the bench... how TPJ isn't getting the spot is craziness and just seems like they're trying to throw as many panthers into the team as possible. [/QUOTE]

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