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And now I look at this side coming into this game and, you know, granted Queensland's missing, you know, a heap of players as well, but just Payne Haas is such a huge out for us, man.

It's just not getting spoken about.

Yes.

You put Payne Haas in this side, all of a sudden I'm looking at the two-prong hooker attack completely different.

Going, okay, at least we know we'll win the middle.

And like, you know, I assume AFB will come out there and do a great job.

But still, like in this arena –

Untested is the reality of it.

Not in his best form right now.

Mitch Barnett has played X amount of games in the last eight weeks or whatever, coming back from an injury.

And then, you know, the Jacob Saifidi pick, with all due respect to him, I can't really make sense of that.

When you've got other guys in this competition that you could have gone for, especially, you know, as, you know, whether it be the, you know, Terrell Mays of the world who have spent time playing off the bench and had impact.

Like, the other one that I think's been, and I understand he's in a team that's not going well at the moment, but like, I thought Stefano had been all right this year.

I've never been the biggest Stefano fan in the world, but I think in a team that's getting beaten to a pulp week in, week out, he's been okay.

You've got Jackson Ford as well.

Jackson Ford's the other.

I can understand.

Yeah, I said last week, I can understand not going forward, but going Saifidi over Ford blows me away.

It does.

And to Saifidi's credit, which I said last week, I do think he's been unfairly criticized based on his origin performances over the years, but it's not the pick I would have gone for still.