: Sun Apr 12, 2009 1:54 pm  

Bobbin' Along wrote:

That's a serious dent in our impact imo (hopefully a serious dent in the number of knock ons too ). A very tough game to throw Esders into.

Clint Newton has commented that, Ryan Edsers is one of the stongest guys(upper body ) he had trained with, he has looked good when playing in the reserves,so hopefuly he can give a good account of himself if selected to play.

: Sun Apr 12, 2009 4:57 pm  

Pharmergibbs wrote:

I would agree with that. Never thought I would be championing Lunt over Faiumu at the beggining of the season given he came from NL2 and Faiumu has played for New Zealand. Just shows doesn't it. Expensive overseas imports are not always the answer. Hope he improves but at the moment he is not good enough for the team IMHO

looked OK friday

: Sun Apr 12, 2009 5:24 pm  

I think Faiumu looked class on Friday, one of the players that closely approached what he could do, certainly looeked far better than Moore

: Sun Apr 12, 2009 5:46 pm  

Brown names the 19 man team and surpise aurprise Mason and Lunt are back

BROWN NAMES 19 FOR CRAVEN PARK TRIP

Giants Head Coach Nathan Brown has named his 19 man squad for Easter Monday's trip to Craven Park to face Hull KR, kick off 2.00pm.

Martin Aspinwall and Danny Kirmond are replaced in the squad by Leroy Cudjoe and Shaun Lunt.

Giants 19 man squad:



1) Brett Hodgson
3) Kevin Brown
4) Paul Whatuira
5) David Hodgson
6) Liam Fulton
7) Luke Robinson
8 ) Eorl Crabtree
9) David Faiumu
10 )Darrell Griffin
11) Jamahl Lolesi
12) Andy Raleigh
13) Stephen Wild
14) Simon Finnigan
15) Paul Jackson
16) Keith Mason
19) Michael Lawrence
20 Scott Moore
21) Leroy Cudjoe
24) Shaun Lunt

: Sun Apr 12, 2009 7:51 pm  

Out of the named 19 i would rest Moor & Jacko.

both have played well for the start of the season and i reckon we have enough ammo to cover for them in attack as for defence we will need to be as mobile as poss against HKR so the squad members who are running on full tanks should play

: Sun Apr 12, 2009 9:34 pm  

WatsonTV wrote:

:BLAH:
looked OK friday

Nah, lots of show but no substance, needs to improve

: Sun Apr 12, 2009 11:49 pm  

Whilst his appearances have been a bit hit and miss since he joined us -due to selection process and his personal affairs -- I havent seen anything to put him at international level so far with us

Maybe he can now put recent events behind him and once settled into a routine - he might show us what he is really capable of producing

If he doesnt improve on recent showings though I have a feeling the other contenders will put him under severe pressure to make the squad

: Mon Apr 13, 2009 10:42 am  

Crackerjack wrote:

Whilst his appearances have been a bit hit and miss since he joined us -due to selection process and his personal affairs -- I havent seen anything to put him at international level so far with us

Maybe he can now put recent events behind him and once settled into a routine - he might show us what he is really capable of producing

If he doesnt improve on recent showings though I have a feeling the other contenders will put him under severe pressure to make the squad

Agreed!

Moore is out of the squad now so lets hope he can turn his form around and do the business today for us. He will never have a better oppertunity. Come on Faiumu! lets see what you can do!

: Mon Apr 13, 2009 5:02 pm  

Pharmergibbs wrote:

Agreed!

Moore is out of the squad now so lets hope he can turn his form around and do the business today for us. He will never have a better oppertunity. Come on Faiumu! lets see what you can do!

He did.

Fortunately he wasn't one of the very good players out there today - he was one of the outstanding ones.

: Mon Apr 13, 2009 5:05 pm  

He and Lunt aimed up today after we lost Fulton. When he went off I was worried, we didn't start well at all today.

We were great in the second half though.