Rd17: North Queensland Cowboys v's South Sydney Rabbitohs

[Teegy]

North Queensland Cowboys vs South Sydney Rabbitohs
Dairy Famers Stadium, Saturday 1st July, 7:30pm

Referee:

Team changes:

North Queensland:
Thurston, Webb, Hanney and O'Donnell are out with SOO duty.
Sweeney and Amos have been dropped
Scott, McConnell, Henry, Faiumu and Sargent are brought up from the Young Guns side
Graham, Southern and Williams all returning from injury


SouthSydney:
Lowe, L MacDougall, S Walker, Manuokafoa and Rogers have been dropped
Gordon, Champion, Geddes, Newton, Cleal and Lichaa are brought into the 1st grade side

COWBOYS
1.Matthew Bowen
2.Ashley Graham
3.Ty Williams
4.Paul Bowman
5.Matt Sing
6.Travis Norton (c)
7.Brent McConnell
8.Mitchell Sargent
9.Aaron Payne
10.Ray Cashmere
11.Matthew Scott
12.Steve Southern
13.Justin Smith

Interchange:

14.Mark Henry
15.David Faiumu
16.Jacob Lillyman
17.Shane Tronc
18.Robert Tanielu

SOUTHS
1. David Peachey
2. Nathan Merritt
3. Todd Polglase
4. Yileen Gordon
5. Paul Mellor
6. Beau Champion
7. Ben Walker
8. Peter Cusack ?
9. Stuart Webb
10. Scott Geddes
11. David Fa?alogo
12. Joe Galuvao
13. John Sutton

Interchange:

14. Mark Minichiello
15. Shane Rigon
16. Dale Newton
17. Kane Cleal
18. Joe Lichaa

[Dakink]

Cows by plenty. With or without thurston and co.

[Teegy]

both teams have made alot of changes but Cowboys should be to good.

[Souths'n'Titans]

Yeha we got the two Aus u19 Centres back in, in Champion and Yilleen

[Queenslander]

Ty Williams is back, cant wait to see him back on the footy field.

[Luke]

Alot of changes by both team. I reckon it will be a close one.

[Supergoose]

Josh Hannay may go from SOO to Qld Cup within a week! I reckon he might just retain his position with Williams pushing out to a wing or something more strange - Bowen to half back, Williams to fullback and Thurston to 5/8.

[Teegy]

i think he will be in the QLD when he return cause the cowboys are deadset on the idea of Ty being a centre. sad thing for josh who has been loyal to the club since he was 16

[Supergoose]

The Cowboys need a 5/8, maybe Hannay or Bowman will be moved closer to the action. I also think they may try Bowen at halfback and move Williams to fullback. This would add a whole different dimension to their attack.

[Diehard Titan Fan]

That old goose, Paul Mellor is still in the Souths side. I like Mellor as a player, but his time was up years ago. I've only counted around five of six time, he was involved in the play, the last couple of weeks.

[Souths'n'Titans]

He made his debut at 17. He is a stallwort, a consistent player who does not cause rifts and i would bank on being a great team mate most teams would like around

[Diehard Titan Fan]

My prime memory of Mellor was in the Tooheys Challenge, which Souths won in 1994. That team had a great playing roster, and Mellor was one of the best, if NOT the best player in that side. I do think, when Cronulla swtiched him to the forwards, that he hasn't been the same player since. Mind you, a couple of years in England wouldn't have helped either.

[Souths'n'Titans]

My prime memory of Mellor was in the Tooheys Challenge, which Souths won in 1994. That team had a great playing roster, and Mellor was one of the best, if NOT the best player in that side. I do think, when Cronulla swtiched him to the forwards, that he hasn't been the same player since. Mind you, a couple of years in England wouldn't have helped either.

His bank account did

[Supergoose]

Mellor is a professional. Something Souths have had a lack of. With Luke MacDougall on the sidelines, Mellor is a must. I'd find somewhere for him in my Souths side - at least you know what you're going to get from him week in and week out.

[Diehard Titan Fan]

I'll agree to disagree on this one, but I'll give Mellor some credit for being the least woeful player on the park last Sunday for Souths, which wasn't much to crow about.