Ishige - Kosta - LBS
GSR
Rufer - Nagasawa
LKH - Hughes - Piper - Payne
Oluwayemi
Might as well play this lineup for the rest of the season. I’d even drop Ishige, Nagasawa and Oluwayemi if we had the players available.
Wootton and Sutton leaving so might as well blood the newbies, give Piper some experience at CB and get ready for next season.
GSR
Rufer - Nagasawa
LKH - Hughes - Piper - Payne
Oluwayemi
Might as well play this lineup for the rest of the season. I’d even drop Ishige, Nagasawa and Oluwayemi if we had the players available.
Wootton and Sutton leaving so might as well blood the newbies, give Piper some experience at CB and get ready for next season.
Agree re giving Piper some mins at CB. It's the position he was supposedly signed to cover. See on the podcast this week, is a question, is he going to be this generation's Ben Sigmund. So yes if Wootton is leaving, give Piper some good mins at CB before season's end.
Can only help with preparations for next season. Especially given the upcoming pre season is going to be majorly disrupted with the U20 WC kicking off in September.
With Marco & Chico both gone for the remainder of this campaign, that flicker of hope there was that the Nix would be more entertaining to watch, has likely been extinguished. Sadly it's likely to revert to being a bit ugly again these last 5 games.
Might as well prepare for 2025/26. A balancing act between not being beaten by 5-6 goals, avoiding the wooden spoon, and giving those who will be at the club next season some valauble playing time. We haven't seen GSR basically all season. So hopefully he plays now.
The Nix will likely finish somewhere 9th-11th. They are 10 pts clear of both Brisbane (12th) & Perth (13th).
Whether it is 9th or 11th may matter re the Australia Cup draw?? But really the greater importance is developing their combos for next season and giving the younger guys very useful ALM mins.