2024 Communty team voting

Aah, biggest issue is that I was using an older player list that didn't have Kane Bradley on it, so that has been corrected

Brandon Smith.2
Payne Haas.3
J'maine Hopgood.5
Reuben Cotter.2
Morgan Smithies.2
Heilum Luki.3
Nathan Cleary.1
Tanah Boyd.3
Will Penisini.2
Ben Trbojevic.1
Kalyn Ponga.5
Jordan Rapana.3
Ryan Papenhuyzen.3
Sitili Tupouniua.3
Kaeo Weekes.2
Brendan Piakura.2
Kane Bradley.2
Drew Hutchison.1
Jaeman Salmon.1
Samuel Hughes.1
Thomas Mikaele.3

As it stands, the Vegas players in the team are

Haas
Tatola
Wong
Piakura
Ben Trbojevic


Of popular players, we currently have no room for
Cheese
Tedesco
Sitili
Murray
Tom Trbojevic


So get your votes in, especially if you have opinions on any of the above players.

Will look to get some sort of team locked in tomorrow, then if Jele/Rob have time they can make any adjustments over the weekend

Milchcow wrote:
Have put votes in, team starting to take shape

Best typo goes to The Weapon, who voted for J’maine Hopgood instead of the correct J'maine Hopgood

Total votes counted doesn't equal total votes received, so there's a couple more typos I haven't picked up on yet, but will do another sweep to see what I can find

MS voted for Drew Hutchinson

Milchcow wrote:
As it stands, the Vegas players in the team are

Haas
Tatola
Wong
Piakura
Ben Trbojevic


Of popular players, we currently have no room for
Cheese
Tedesco
Sitili
Murray
Tom Trbojevic


So get your votes in, especially if you have opinions on any of the above players.

Will look to get some sort of team locked in tomorrow, then if Jele/Rob have time they can make any adjustments over the weekend

Lockout timing is a bit brutal for me, but I'll definitely get up and watch the two Las Vegas games. If we end up picking the five above and one or more get relegated to the bench, I guess we can look at replacing them with one of the next five (if it makes sense to do so), or just a holding player from the second week.

Rhino has actually misspelt Sitili, after changing those votes that he makes the team over Wong.

Here is what we are running with at the moment



I suspect guys like Bradley might disappear next week, but we have time to change all that next week.


FYI this is enforcing 1 sub in every position. Otherwise we drop Ponga for Hopgood and run with Burbo and Strange as our only centres, with Papenhuyzen, Rapana, Weekes and Bradley as our WFB options
Levi gets ditched too and we run with 1 hooker.

Sorry I completely blanked on this, if you still want votes I can put up my current team. Can't say it'd change much from this, have 15/21 the same atm

robelgordo wrote:Sorry I completely blanked on this, if you still want votes I can put up my current team. Can't say it'd change much from this, have 15/21 the same atm

Please vote anyway - some of the fringe positions are very close.

eg Including 1 persons votes for Tupouniua got him into the team ahead of Wong

Harry Grant.1
Cameron Murray.3
Sitili Tupouniua.3
Reuben Cotter.1
Brendan Piakura.5
Siua Wong.3
Nathan Cleary.5
Kyle Flanagan.1
Tesi Niu.1
Ben Trbojevic.3
Kane Bradley.4
Ryan Papenhuyzen.4
Jordan Rapana.2
Brandon Smith.3
Heilum Luki.2
Danny Levi.1
Drew Hutchison.2
Samuel Hughes.1
Jaeman Salmon.1
Ethan Strange.2
Kalyn Ponga.2

Milchcow wrote:
Rhino has actually misspelt Sitili, after changing those votes that he makes the team over Wong.

Can I clarify that I misspelt the surname not the first name. I'm not a total idiot.

Yeah when I clicked Sitili's profile, I thought "Yeah fuck that, I'm copy/pasting"

Have cleaned up the votes added some, and recalculated



We've lost Ponga to upgrade Danny Levi
We have an issue in that if Bradley isn't named we don't have 3 scoring WFB week 1, so that will likely need adjusting next week, but we have Cotter/Smithies we can .

So only real concern right now is Vegas players, of which we have a bunch, but they seem to be popular

On the above team, most popular players to miss out were Hopgood, Ponga and Grant

Murray, Flanagan and Penisini also there or thereabouts

Least popular player to make the cut was Jordan Rapana

That's a lot of faith in Ricky Stewart

Do we have a contingency or ability to change Bradley if not named?

Obbeats wrote:Do we have a contingency or ability to change Bradley if not named?

The next closest in voting was Kaeo Weekes, who might also not be named. So likely a of a rejig in order next week. But will wait until after TLT rather than just guess

So team looks like this.  We have the following playing in Vegas:

- Cheese
- Sitili
- Wong
- Haas
- Tatola
- Piakura
- Burbo

Anyone have strong views on what to do with any late switcheroos?  If Sitili or Wong (or even Piakura) are benched, should we drop them, and see if a better option pops up in TLT2?

I think if they are benched in final team lists, dump them for any non Vegas player, and we'll sort it out next week.

Especially Wong/Sitili as we have ongoing concerns about their spot in the team anyway

No changes needed

EDIT: although in hindsight, a couple would have been warranted...