1. minichello - has to be fullback
2. lewis - did just enough to retain his spot (grothe jnr and el masri are going great tho)
3. king - best centre after cooper
4. cooper - great in both defence and offense
5. rooney - best nsw winger
6. barret - back to form, just edges out anasta
7. kimmorley - simply the best right now.
8. clinton - i just get the feeling that bailey has been pretty lack lustre this year
9. buderus - class
10. ryles - fit again, running and offloading like a machine
11.hindmarsh - tireless
12. kenndy - the key to manly's success this season
13. fitzgibbon - kicker
reserves
14. wing - versatile and explosive, ideal bench player (although anasta can also be picked here)
15. waterhouse - can play frontrow and backrow
16. ryan - classy backrower
17. watmough/menzies - cant decide yet, watmough has been firing week in week out as has menzies who also has experience and played awsome in city country - he lifts at these type of occasions. (kite would do as well though)
bailey and kite just missing out, but with waterhouse covering for props, theres just so many deserving backrowers, hard to decide who should be kicked. no priddis if buderus is fit. anasta should also be considered unlucky unless he gets a bench spot at the expense of wing