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Message: [QUOTE="Lockysillegitimatechild, post: 3106744, member: 8814"] I think lodges injury is going to impact haas the most unfortunately. Lodge took those tough Carrie's out of our end that softened the defence a little for haas. Haas is more then capable of doing that as well but it will mean his game will suffer a fair bit. TPJ, whoever the lock is, and oates will need to step up in my opinion. Any injury in our forwards weakens our bench too. Bullemore may come good and Kennedy is very good at getting a quick play the ball, but the standard of our bench takes a fair hit. I'd be happy with carrigan, offa or flegler but flegler is my choice (even though I rate carrigan as our long term lock) simply because of what we will miss the most with lodge out. Each of them offer something different that we will miss with lodge. Carrigan the work rate and defensive steel and wrestle (he's a great slower down of the ruck I've noticed), offa the experience and reliability with some tough runs in him, flegler the size and aggression in attack and defence with the ability to get quick ptb and good runs out of our end. I just think flegler together with TPJ will give us what we need to cover lodge, however it still weakens our bench/rotation. I also think this means timms and bullemore need to come into the squad. Couple more injuries in the pack during this period and we look slim, even after one injury! Bullemore may be an instant bench option if seibold wants to pace fifita for the long season (which I think would be wise). Overall this injury really sucks for us but it may help later in the season if lodge gets back in time fresh. And as long as haas isn't asked to do a lot more (if possible) and runs out of steam by the end of the season (if possible). And we can win enough without him of course. Sorry for the long entry fellas, just a few of my thoughts! [/QUOTE]

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