Rams v Stars — Sat 13th Sept — NRC @ Pirtek

[kiap]

Pirtek Stadium, Parramatta
Saturday 13 September, 3.00 pm AEST

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Referee: Ian Smith
AR1: Ed Martin
AR2: James Leckie

Coach: Brian Melrose
Captain: Jed Holloway

1 Benn Robinson, 2 Hugh Roach, 3 Guy Millar, 4 Jared Barry, 5 Steve Mafi, 6 Hugh Perrett, 7 Chris Alcock, 8 Jed Holloway (c);

9 Mark Swanepoel, 10 Ben Volavola, 11 Taqele Naiyaravaro, 12 Michael McDougall, 13 Lalakai Foketi, 14 Jarome McKenzie, 15 Dane Chisholm.

16 Maile Ngauamo, 17 Jed Gillespie, 18 Dave Lolohea, 19 Dylan Sigg, 20 Pat Sio, 21 Vasa Falaeli’i, 22 Jai Ayoub, 23 Henry Seavula.

Coach: Chris Malone
Captain: Pat McCutcheon

1 Jeremy Tilse, 2 Tom Coolican, 3 Paddy Ryan, 4 Andrew Leota, 5 Will Skelton, 6 Tipiloma Kaveinga, 7 Patrick McCutcheon (c), 8 Sam Quinn;

9 Jake Gordon, 10 Stuart Dunbar, 11 Matthew Kenny, 12 Michael Hodge, 13 Jim Stewart, 14 James Dargaville, 15 Jack Macklin.

16 James Willan, 17 Tom Robertson, 18 Laurie Weeks, 19 Matthew Philip, 20 Hugo Dessens, 21 Jock Merriman, 22 Jonathan Fakai, 23 Jono Sullivan.

 

[Pfitzy]

Cat versus Paddy. Big T versus Dargaville. Hulk versus Barry.

Fucking hell its going to be good!

Possible showers Friday-Saturday but 20 degrees forecast. let's hope the showers bugger off and we get some running rugby and a big crowd.

 

[2bluesfan]

Big T versus Dargaville.

This will be interesting. I'm a fan of Taqele but there's still some development required and Dargaville surely must be being monitored by every S15 franchise.

 

[qwerty51]

Rams will be hoping it's dry.

 

[Hawko]

Rams have changed their 12/13 combo - McDougall moves in one and Foketi comes to 13. This was their biggest problem in Adelaide, though I hope Swanepoel got a rocket at training this week. I would have put in Falealifii myself.

I hope Skelton hasn't dropped his head and that he puts in a huge game this week to remind Link he does have options at lock.

 

[kiap]

Under 3 hrs to #RAMvSYD kick off + LIVE stream on Bar TV @Parra.

Rams have free beers, pizza and horns from now until 2pm at the Albion Hotel!

 

[qwerty51]

Quality stream and commentary.

 

[Ash]

Who are the commentators?

They have done a good job with the stream and organising commentators.

Wish the ref mic was turned right up though.

 

[Ash]

Taqele in, steam rolled a few from 5m out down the sideline.

 

[qwerty51]

Like I said, he's better than Nadolo. Bigger and more powerful.

 

[Ash]

Oops, that's Alcock commentator, not McCutcheon!

 

[Ash]

Heh, the commentator corrected himself, fair play to him.

 

[Ash]

Taqele getting a lot of ball already, forced out that time.

 

[qwerty51]

"Well there were big raps on the Sydney Stars coming into this competition"

Umm no there wasn't, most rated them the worst side easily.

 

[Ash]

Yeah, quite a bit of hyperbole from the comms.

 

[Ash]

Dunbar was creamed by Holloway, I think.

Stars can't finish a few breaks down their left wing.

 

[kiap]

Yeah, quite a bit of hyperbole from the comms.

True. But they're enthusiastic and that's good.

 

[qwerty51]

Yeah, quite a bit of hyperbole from the comms.

How's this one? "This will be one of the greatest rivalries in Australian sport"

 

[Ash]

Barry in, McKenzie has some pace down the wing.

Skelton looks to be labouring already, he's been hanging out a bit behind play.

 

[Wilson]

I like the enthusiasm from the commentators, but I'm not sure there watching the same game as I am.