Originally Posted by
GIGS20
Yeah, I wasn't saying Kuenzle was a bad pick, only that you could have thrown a bucket of paint into the changeroom and gave it to anybody who had paint on them.
It'll be a matter of opinion who gets it from there.
You could put up Ryan Coxon, who put in a massive shift looking after a scrum that was seen as underperforming against a scrum that the media has called one of the best in the competition (both assessments bullshit IMHO, but here we are)
You could have given it to Potter who made 15 look easy and was an attacking threat all night
I think Kuenzle and Tizzano have been ably covered
Hamish Stewart was immense in both attack and defense, he would have been a worthy candidate
Nic White proved that Tate McDermott is a long way from the best 9 in Oz and would have been a decent pick
Jeremy Williams owned their defensive lineout in his short stint, while he likely didn't have enough minutes to actually in it, it wouldn't be an unreasonable one to consider.
Sam Spink was hard as concrete
Tom Horton was ..... well F@ck it, he was Tom Horton, enough said?
Tim Anstee finally had the game we've all wanted out of him and, assuming he can repeat it will make Wells' return a roll of the dice
In fact the entire backrow (even the replacements, since we lost Harris early) made what the media have been calling the 2024 Wallaby backrow look inaccurate and pedestrian, anybody in that troupe could be it.
Ben Donaldson outplayed Tom Lynagh for probably 70 of the 80 minutes.
Depending upon whether you favour backs or forwards, toughness over elusive running, dominance over your opponent or whether you prefer the dirty, unnoticed work over the flashy point scoring stuff, you could make a case for every player to take it out.
I'm no less happy with Bayley getting it than anyone else.