MENZIE : Wed Sep 21, 2011 8:40 am  

Does he start? For me as a one-off would be ideal to bring off the bench as an impact sub,after 25 mins or so,get him down the middle and getting him charging at the tired Leigh forwards,His pace and power would be destructive against the slower forwards.A different option to out in the centre and maybe the gameturner.

Re: MENZIE : Wed Sep 21, 2011 9:32 am  

Bench i expect

Re: MENZIE : Wed Sep 21, 2011 10:35 am  

Have him on from the start, opposite the slightly overweight Nanyn and pepper grubbers to him for the first quarter so he always has Menzie in his face, takes a few big hits and is playing the ball from inside his own 20 where he can't do much damage.

On attack make sure Menzie and his winger get out quickly and push him into the middle for the forwards to take the stuffing out of him too.

If we shut him down, and keep Ellis quiet, then it's game on. Fev showed that last week and Leigh seemed short of ideas, no reason why we can't win this one!

Re: MENZIE : Wed Sep 21, 2011 11:06 am  

I reckon bring him off the bench, he was awesome when he came off the bench against York and helped himself to a hat-trick, I know Leigh will be much stiffer opposition but, if we can stay in the game with Menzie on the bench, he might be the impact sub we need to get over the line.

Re: MENZIE : Wed Sep 21, 2011 1:00 pm  

running-eagle wrote:

Have him on from the start, opposite the slightly overweight Nanyn and pepper grubbers to him for the first quarter so he always has Menzie in his face, takes a few big hits and is playing the ball from inside his own 20 where he can't do much damage.

On attack make sure Menzie and his winger get out quickly and push him into the middle for the forwards to take the stuffing out of him too.

If we shut him down, and keep Ellis quiet, then it's game on. Fev showed that last week and Leigh seemed short of ideas, no reason why we can't win this one!

Nanyn and Yere are normally on opposite sides to each other. Hopefully Higson will play opposite Yere again for Leigh and put him right back into his pocket where he ended up last time

Re: MENZIE : Wed Sep 21, 2011 1:06 pm  

EAGLEBLADE II wrote:

Does he start? For me as a one-off would be ideal to bring off the bench as an impact sub,after 25 mins or so,get him down the middle and getting him charging at the tired Leigh forwards,His pace and power would be destructive against the slower forwards.A different option to out in the centre and maybe the gameturner.

Except those 'tiring forwards' will have been rotated no more than 5 minutes prior to Menzie coming on. He's a real enigma on his day and a class act, but as Nozzy said Higson had him in his pocket last time, and he's generally not a player in our first choice 17.

Re: MENZIE : Wed Sep 21, 2011 2:22 pm  

Nozzy wrote:

Nanyn and Yere are normally on opposite sides to each other. Hopefully Higson will play opposite Yere again for Leigh and put him right back into his pocket where he ended up last time

Hence why I said to put Menzie against Nanyn this time out, Leigh have been exposed down Nanyn's channel a few times and a few hits from 'The Jukebox' might be just what Nanyn needs to be thrown off his game

Re: MENZIE : Fri Sep 23, 2011 6:48 am  

When will Menzie potentially face the disciplinary for the "on-report" tackle?

Although he didn't make many breaks last night he made a lot of metres and was instrumental in pulling defenders away from Q for his try and for setting up Finnigan.

I assume Higson is OK - it lokoed really nasty, although it was obviously accidental.

Re: MENZIE : Fri Sep 23, 2011 7:28 am  

I asked Tubbs after the game and he said that the disciplinary will be in time to ban him if he's found guilty, which, let's face it, he will be.

Re: MENZIE : Fri Sep 23, 2011 10:09 am  

tim2 wrote:

I assume Higson is OK - it lokoed really nasty, although it was obviously accidental.

Broken jaw apparently, though obviously the focus will be on Yere's tackle on Donlan, which I feel might have been dealt with there and then rather than being put on report had we not made a break from the offload and therefore the officials were following play.