My Best 17 don't include Wong

[Bates]

Our top 10 forwards are Whyte, Collins, Watson, Gus, Wong, Rads all starting then N Butcher, Leniu, Foketi & its between Steep, Ioelu & E Butcher that makes up the last spot.
Teddy, Toups, Billy, Bobby T, Marky, Walker & Hugo is our best backline.

Collins, N Butcher, Foketi, Steep.

Coach Mickie, If you had to pick 2 players from the above 4, who would you choose?

3 year deal for the keepers. New club for the others.

[The Brain]

so who is gonna cover for his 50- 60 tackles a week?..farken no one! He pounds the line he makes the tackles.He is harder the rest will come back with timing.

[Mickie Lane]

Collins, N Butcher, Foketi, Steep.

Coach Mickie, If you had to pick 2 players from the above 4, who would you choose?

3 year deal for the keepers. New club for the others.

Thats a hard one.
Foketi & Steep because of their youth & hopeful potential but Collins & N Butcher add a lot of experience Collins is an Australian & SOO player & Nat is a Robbo favouite.
So 1 of Collins or Butcher & 1 of Foketi & Steep. Hopefully things progress that Foketi & Steep stay at the club long term.

[KenWiwa]

The notion that Wong doesn't make our 17 is hard to fathom. For mine, he's our best and most reliable back-rowers. He frequently tops the tackle count, runs good lines and punches out 80 minutes of quality every week. Our performance in the last three games - losing to the West Tigers; conceding 24 against Saints and being clearly outplayed by the Sharks - shows the gulf between him and Foketi or Egan. He's also been better this year than our so-called big name forwards - Angus, Collins, Leniu - media darlings who have played below their reputations in most games.

[roosterchook]

I mean, he's ok but I think our other rookies have more upside.
I know the stat men love him but I think he's a bit over rated.

At full strength I'd have a backrow of Crichton, Foketi and Rads, with Nat Butcher and Steep on the bench.

Crichton was in great form before origin but now is back to his old poor form. Our team played a lot better without the origin stars. With the number of rep players we have we should be much higher up on the ladder but they aren’t playing at their best.