11 Nov: RLWC2017 (Group A): Australia v Lebanon - Match Thread

[John Drake]

Discuss Australia v Lebanon here.

[Farmduck]

Australia v Lebanon

Sydney Football Stadium, 8pm Saturday

Australia

1 Valentine Holmes
2 Dane Gagai
3 Tom Trbojevic
4 Cameron Munster
5 Joshua Mansour
6 James Maloney
7 Cooper Cronk
8 Aaron Woods
9 Cameron Smith (c)
10 David Klemmer
11 Boyd Cordner
12 Matt Gillett
13 Felise Kaufusi

14 Ben Hunt
15 Jordan Mclean
16 Reagan Campbell-Gillard
17 Wade Graham

18 Joshua McGuire
19 Michael Morgan
20 Joshua Dugan
21 Billy Slater

Lebanon

1 Anthony Layoun
2 Travis Robinson
3 James Elias
4 Adam Doueihi
5 Abbas Miski
6 Mitchell Moses
7 Robbie Farah (c)
8 Timothy Mannah
9 Michael Lichaa
10 Alex Twal
11 Chris Saab
12 Ahmad Ellaz
13 Nick Kassis

14 Mitchell Mamary
15 Raymond Moujalli
16 Jamie Clark
17 Andrew Kazzi

18 Jason Wehbe
19 Danny Barakat
20 Elias Sukkar
21 Daniel Abou-Sleiman

Match officials: Referee: James Child; Touch Judges: Chris Sutton & Belinda Sleeman; Video Referee: Bernard Sutton.

[Farmduck]

I think Mal is resting the obvious members of his top 17 - Slater, Morgan, Chambers and Frizell. There may be 1 centre and 2 wing spots still open to discussion with T-Turbo, Mansour, Gagai, Holmes and Dugan in the mix. It would make the selectors' job a lot easier if one of them had a dreadful game or went full Brough afterwards.

[Exiled Wiganer]

I hope the weather is good and that the Lebanese community get behind their team in numbers. Farah will need to be even more ingenious in his refereeing and disrupting the game. What other tricks will he have up his sleeve? 

[RayCee]

2 hours ago, Exiled Wiganer said:

I hope the weather is good and that the Lebanese community get behind their team in numbers. Farah will need to be even more ingenious in his refereeing and disrupting the game. What other tricks will he have up his sleeve? 

I respect Farah as a player but not his attitude. 

[Allora]

Australia by lots.

[westlondonfan]

Australia to win by a big margin but let’s hope Lebanon keep going forward after this World Cup . They are in the quarter finals I believe so that is a fantastic achievement for them.

[Abicus]

https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/340829

Free tickets anyone? Maximum of 4 in all seating Categories! 

[DlEHARD]

Heading down from Brisbane for this, go Roos! Look out for my flag on tele.

[RayCee]

59 minutes ago, DlEHARD said:

Heading down from Brisbane for this, go Roos! Look out for my flag on tele.

A blue one like your aviator? 

[Old Frightful]

The only chance for the Lebanese is if Robbie Farah can get into the Aussies' faces early doors.

[Scubby]

There is no chance here for Lebanon. Only hope is that the Aussies ship a few tries and it is an entertaining game. Lots of free ticket give aways too and some people saying PAX had reached 23k. I'm sure not all will show but we may at least get a crowd approaching 15-20k. 

Having to give away tickets to a World Cup with all that lead in is another thread altogether :/ Hopefully the Lebanese fans will make it a great event.

[Man of Kent]

Tommy Turbo and Munster in the centres. Interesting.

[Cake Tiger]

Kangaroos' kit is "interesting" tonight 

[Just Browny]

Third shock of the day.

[Scubby]

Decent crowd for once. How could the organisers not create this as a massive celebration of Sydney culture and pack out the SFS?? Anyway, hoping for a great game.

[Man of Kent]

Like the stripey Aus number 

[Futtocks]

1 minute ago, Man of Kent said:

Like the stripey Aus number 

Me too.

[Futtocks]

Good atmosphere so far.

[Man of Kent]

Child made a bad call there 

[Man of Kent]

Munster scores but Lebanon will feel hard done by

[Man of Kent]

4-0 Aus with KTC. 9 gone 

[Scubby]

Good try for Australia there. Has Cameron Smith ever been pulled up for a forward pass in his career?

[Roy Boy]

Mmmm interesting decision from Childs and then the Aussies run down field and score! Still it won’t be the last game he affects the result in! ?

[Northern Eel]

Apart from being incorrectly pinged for a two man steal and missing two forward passes, the ref will quite rightly point out Lebanon only have themselves to blame for that set.