Best NRL wing combinations ??

[maxta]

Wingers used to be fast blokes that hung around footy players....some still are, but with the importance of starting sets well and making those tough scoots to give the team recovery...they are definitely a valuable commodity in today's game....starting sets with momentum is a major catalyst for victory.
There are some deadly combinations in the NRL with Storms (Addo Carr/ Vunivalu) alongside Canberra's combo (Rapana /Cotric) as the best imo.
Not a Bronco fan but this young Osako looks the goods and adds spark, while Oates can be a handful and on my list are equal with the Warriors Fusitua/ Maumolo.
The Manly combo of Taufua/ Uate is amongst the middle of the pack, with powerhouse carries in attack tarnished with errors and defensive issues.
Whats the Silvertails opinions ?

 

[Chip and Chase]

JAC and Vuni are quick and not bad in the air, but i wouldn't say they are power players. Defensively they are not that great and certainly not best in league in rucking it out.

Ferguson and Tupou are probably up there as a pairing too. Looks like Fonua has moved to centre now, but he and Nofo are two very good power wingers who do a lot of work.

 

[maxta]

Maybe not that valuable....

You didn't mention 1 combination from a top 4 team...

Damn Fittler and the selectors must have picked a dud NSW squad, with 10 players not in top 4 teams....hope they still turn out valuable come game time.

 

[HoldenV8]

If I could pick two players in the NRL to play on Manly's wings....

I'd go for one we already have.....Jorge Taufua. And the other would be Josh Addo-Carr.

Taufua isn't a speed merchant. His hands can be like they are covered in grease and his ability to catch a bomb is questionable. But every time he is out injured, damn if we don't suffer from it. He is a workhorse at the back with his runs and it takes so much pressure off the forwards. And while he has hands of grease in general play, with a try on offer they usually turn to hands of super glue.

Addo-Carr I would have purely for his speed. Get him in the clear and no one in top flight rugby league, NRL or the ESL, will catch him.

 

[midsteyne]

Wingers used to be fast blokes that hung around footy players....some still are, but with the importance of starting sets well and making those tough scoots to give the team recovery...they are definitely a valuable commodity in today's game....starting sets with momentum is a major catalyst for victory.
There are some deadly combinations in the NRL with Storms (Addo Carr/ Vunivalu) alongside Canberra's combo (Rapana /Cotric) as the best imo.
Not a Bronco fan but this young Osako looks the goods and adds spark, while Oates can be a handful and on my list are equal with the Warriors Fusitua/ Maumolo.
The Manly combo of Taufua/ Uate is amongst the middle of the pack, with powerhouse carries in attack tarnished with errors and defensive issues.
Whats the Silvertails opinions ?

Wolfman and Ken Irvine at their peak

 

[Sue]

If I could pick two players in the NRL to play on Manly's wings....

I'd go for one we already have.....Jorge Taufua. And the other would be Josh Addo-Carr.

Taufua isn't a speed merchant. His hands can be like they are covered in grease and his ability to catch a bomb is questionable. But every time he is out injured, damn if we don't suffer from it. He is a workhorse at the back with his runs and it takes so much pressure off the forwards. And while he has hands of grease in general play, with a try on offer they usually turn to hands of super glue.

Addo-Carr I would have purely for his speed. Get him in the clear and no one in top flight rugby league, NRL or the ESL, will catch him.

Cotric is better than all of them. I like Jorges finishing but at that level they would kill him with pin point bombs. Simple errors in SOO cost you games.Can’t believe Cotric didn’t make NSW side. Tom is a fullback or a centre at a pinch.

You would think the NSW selectors would have worked out by now that picking fullbacks out of position doesn’t tend to work. Tom has so much talent he could make a good fist of it but I would be ****ty if I was Cotric.

 

[HoldenV8]

Cotric is better than all of them. I like Jorges finishing but at that level they would kill him with pin point bombs. Simple errors in SOO cost you games.Can’t believe Cotric didn’t make NSW side. Tom is a fullback or a centre at a pinch.

You would think the NSW selectors would have worked out by now that picking fullbacks out of position doesn’t tend to work. Tom has so much talent he could make a good fist of it but I would be ****ty if I was Cotric.

That is why he has never played Origin.

And I tend to agree. I would have gone with Tom at fullback, Cotric on the wing and Tedesco playing for the Chooks. But the coach and final say in selections is Fittler and we all knew the team would be made up mostly of Panthers and Chooks players.

 

[Sue]

Yep. So frustrating re Jorge. Bringing the ball back and finishing second to none. But the filthy bomb, the bain of rugby league, brings him back to the field unfortunately.

It’s strange really. Picking up a ball low down on the run there is no one better. In the air and it’s chaos.

 

[stoodamire]

Jorge also has a dodgy ball the play style.

 

[The Indian]

Cotric and Rapana for me......albeit Valentine Holmes & insert random Shark is also rather decent.

 

[HoldenV8]

When a try is on offer there are no better hands in the game than Jorge Taufua. Even half volleys that he has no right picking up stick like glue when there is a try to be scored.

But in general play his hands are shocking and his attempts at catching bombs would do justice to Sgt. Schultz. He knows nothing....NOTHING.

I have seriously never understood why teams haven't constantly bombed us into oblivion on his wing. You'd think they would have figured it out by now.

 

[maxta]

Don't think comparing the best players in the comp and which team they come from has anything to do with wingers starting sets off...?

Ask for opinions..?? I'll just keep it to myself next time 🙂

Your comment was that wingers starting sets is a catalyst for victory. Just pointing out that the top 4 teams don't seem to have well known wingers who start sets off as well as others...

Kind of does, because these other comparable players are in even more key positions, yet not in top 4 teams.....
Personally feel the start of sets is Massive in the modern game and the efforts of these wing combinations shows more about the rest of their team not good enough to capitalize on the back of it than anything else.
As an example I actually think Rapana and Cotric were the difference in the Canberra game, alongside the inability of Manly being good enough to blow the candles out in the last 10 minutes.
Keep in the game Batty - like your posts, but you did slam me with a late shot on that last post, so I took your number !!

 

[Sue]

When a try is on offer there are no better hands in the game than Jorge Taufua. Even half volleys that he has no right picking up stick like glue when there is a try to be scored.

But in general play his hands are shocking and his attempts at catching bombs would do justice to Sgt. Schultz. He knows nothing....NOTHING.

I have seriously never understood why teams haven't constantly bombed us into oblivion on his wing. You'd think they would have figured it out by now.

The answer to your last question is that coaching has become such a ubiquitous commodity with 3 or 4 rucks , a block play spread and a kick to the most convenient corner.A teams strengths and an oppositions weaknesses seems to hardly play a role at all, other than identifying a small half and running at him.

It amazes me why we just don’t play a different game totally focused around our killer props and great support players up the middle every week but the ubiquitous predictable stuff seems to be a given these days with most teams.The only other style over the last decade has been the second phase hope and prayer stuff of the warriors and that’s not the answer.Matching your style to your players strengths seems obvious but for some reason it’s almost the same across the teams.

The best teams over the last decade are coached by guys who get their guys to execute this boring stuff over and over again under pressure. Bellamy is the master of course but is this style worth watching? No is the answer but no one seems ready to think outside the box and have the players to execute it. You have to admire Bellamy and co for doing it so well but it has taken my interest in the game to a lower level.

Hopefully this may change if fatigue comes back into game via reduced interchange and players play more what is in front of them.

Souths are the big exception to the norm this year.And I think they will be rewarded by winning the comp.Penrith too have a great combination of unprectability and the execution needed to go with it.Their young forwards are sensational.

 

[HoldenV8]

I agree with everything except Souffs winning the comp. Yes they are going well and are actually playing to their strengths which is their Burgess led pack, but I can see them (like St Merge) dropping off the pace.

Right now I would say that the favourites are Penrith. And I hate to say it but my smokies are Cronulla and Melbourne.

 

[TimmyQ]

Wingers used to be fast blokes that hung around footy players....some still are, but with the importance of starting sets well and making those tough scoots to give the team recovery...they are definitely a valuable commodity in today's game....starting sets with momentum is a major catalyst for victory.
There are some deadly combinations in the NRL with Storms (Addo Carr/ Vunivalu) alongside Canberra's combo (Rapana /Cotric) as the best imo.
Not a Bronco fan but this young Osako looks the goods and adds spark, while Oates can be a handful and on my list are equal with the Warriors Fusitua/ Maumolo.
The Manly combo of Taufua/ Uate is amongst the middle of the pack, with powerhouse carries in attack tarnished with errors and defensive issues.
Whats the Silvertails opinions ?

I enjoy watching Fusitua and Maumolo tbh - athletic, quick, great under the high ball and monsters bringing the ball back. They've got it all those bastards

 

[Sue]

I agree with everything except Souffs winning the comp. Yes they are going well and are actually playing to their strengths which is their Burgess led pack, but I can see them (like St Merge) dropping off the pace.

Right now I would say that the favourites are Penrith. And I hate to say it but my smokies are Cronulla and Melbourne.

Yep. Cronulla have that hard edge required but can’t see Melbourne doing it this year. But then again in tight games their wingers often find a way to get over the line. Roosters no hope.

Never thought I’d say the most attractive side to watch in the comp is the bunnies but geez they are easy on the eye. Can they win it? Who knows but I’m looking forward to this final series with some new sides in the mix.

 

[ricardo]

Semi Radradra

 

[HoldenV8]

What I, and I suspect many others, are looking forward to is a Finals series with no North Qld, no Dogs, possibly no Brisbane and possibly no Melbourne.

Even if Manly miss the 8 (and I honestly think we probably will), seeing those 4 also miss would be good.

 

[HoldenV8]

Semi Radradra

Aren't Doesn't-matta missing him this year. He got them out of trouble so much in the past 2-3 years and now they don't have that....look at where they are, back in wooden spoon land.

 

[ricardo]

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