Congratulations to our wakey lads, anyone see what happened to kelepi, all stars ended up just 15 fit players ?

Did anything happen to him or was he just subbed? I didn’t hear anything myself.

I thought Reece Lyne was one of the best players on the pitch. The yards he made and absolutely nothing got past him all night even forcing errors in D. The lad really works hard and he seems to really perform on the bigger stage.

Plus great centre play to make try for Davies.

Tanginoa should stay at SR from now on.

We just signed Ashurst for another 2 years.

He has to play prop out of necessity atm but it seems that the long term plans are to convert him to a solid prop rather than a get him back to his best position at SR.

Maybe Ashurst could convert to LF to cover the loss of Westy next season? Arona/Ashurst at 13 would allow Tangi to 11 for 2022.

He has his best games at SR, therefore should play at SR. In place of Ashurst or Pitts if necessary.

I didn't see anything from Tanginoa at SR that he couldnt do as a prop.
Even at his rampaging best Pitts brings more as an all round second row.
I'd keep him a prop for now.

Of the three Wakey lads I thought Lyne came out top.
Westerman put in a good shift but didn't really stand out.
Tanganoa quite anonymous apart from that head shot.

Kelepi was absent in the SR hardly noticed him

I believe he spent the first 25 minutes at SR then seemed to be in the middle so maybe moved to prop. Or so I thought.

Agreed.

As far as I can tell with some posters who have this obsession is that they are seeing what they want to see.

I thing Tanginoa plays the same roll every game but when he has a good game they choose to call him a SR and when he has an average game they claim he’s playing at prop.

With no scrums and very few specialist forwards these days most players play in multiple positions, not just in a season but during a game.

When Kelepi has a barnstormer it’s usually because the opposition s defence is poor as with most players.

I think Westerman was probably playing to plan. For us he does more ball handling but didn't really do that for England.
He took the ball in well but others can do that too.
If they want to use him they are better using all of him.

Lyne did his claims for the shirt no harm at all.

Decision being made next week on whether it's going ahead this year or not... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/57618975

Decision being made next week on whether it's going ahead this year or not... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/57618975

Thought lyne was excellent against a decent centre in Ricky Leutele, looked very comfortable in defence and looked a threat in attack. Westerman was used as a battering ram, completely different to how he’s been used for us, England’s loss in my opinion. Kelepi did some decent hard carries, nothing spectacular but he didn’t really need to against them. Peter mata'utia is fast becoming one of my favourite players to watch, he’s such a great player, his utility value is excellent. Think Shaun wane has a job on getting us to compete in the WC, some very strong nations now.