The problem for the round 2 team is that if there's any sense in replacing
Maumalo, Manu is the next cab off the rank but he really had a nothing game either. For example, you would expect him to get a whole heap of tries in a team that won 52-24 but the only try he got was lucky. If you're honestly rewarding form with first grade spots you have to put Alwood in the team.
Issac Luke's injury was just pulled intercostal muscle which can feel like a broken rib, and even if it was broken there's nothing they can do about it. But he should be fine for next week, shouldn't be a major injury there. Mannering's injury could go either way. They were saying it's not a jaw problem so it could be neck muscle or bone just him holding it on that one side would indicate muscle but it could just as likely be the vertebrae wing on that side there's no way of knowing without scans. Regardless, I don't think
Lisone is the appropriate replacement for him simply because, as he showed today, he's not mature enough for a starting spot while he is still looking out for fights instead of letting the skills do the talking. In reality, I don't think we'll see him change that until the back-end of his career.
Give me Bodene in the middle if Simon is injured and Papalii on the bench to give him a 20 minute spell. Have a bench hooker if you're starting a hooker that's injured to any degree, be it
Tevaga or Erin Clarke. And give me a winger, not a converted second-rower.
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