Like Regan does Amor deserve a spell at Leigh and bring Ashworth or Douglas back as he's not offered us anything this season getting knocked back quite easily.
Like Regan does Amor deserve a spell at Leigh and bring Ashworth or Douglas back as he's not offered us anything this season getting knocked back quite easily.
His average gain this year is the 4th highest at the club (8.11m), in front of every other forward bar Peyroux and Roby.
Amor gets unfair treatment from a lot of posters on here. He gets criticised because he’s not Thomson or Walmsley. He takes the ball in straight and gets good metres when we need them at a time when the other props are tiring. Surely the coaching team of Holbrook,Wellens and Long with umpteen accolades between them and whose job it is to see them every day know this.
I thought Amor was pretty good on Friday, albeit in a brief spell.
This confuses me. If JH thinks he is good enough why is he being used so little. With KN going off you would have thought Amor would have done more minutes. He did ok, but It’s making the other do more work. Douglas must be in with a shout afterhis month. Personally I’m a fan of Ashworth. I think he an Lees work well even given they lack experience.
Humans are more concerned with having than being.
I am really surprised that nobody on here has mentioned Paulo on here yet or in fact started a similar thread to this one. He is really poor so far and to me it is worse than Amor because he has an overseas spot. Ashworth or Douglas should be replacing him.
Maybe Holbrook wants him to play a simple role at the moment, he is supposed to be a ball playing backrower but Holbrook is trying the new combination of Lomax and Fages.
If Paulo interferes with that then we just end up with another Wilkin, for me Paulo hasn’t got an effective playing role just yet.
Let me Explain Its clear you have not played the game. why do the think he was taken off after such a short spell .Hes Lacking in Controlled Aggression simple as.
He's a great player and one of our best signings, he's probably the first name on the team sheet week in week out. Taia excluding Roby handles the ball more than anyone else at a guess at least 2 plays in every set so the errors will be higher being one of our go to players.
The problem is that the opposition know that and put markers on him to try to limit his options, one thing you can't call him is lazy his tackle count, carries, offloads are pretty impressive.
I said the same on another thread about Paulo being poor so far but willing to give him tome to improve seeing as we're only 3 games in (although saying that I never really saw him have any outstanding games for Cronulla!)
He does need to pull his socks up though and have a good game pretty soon.
Give Paulo time. People are expecting Tony Puletua and even he took a while to get used to SL...
Amor is fine if not taking up too much cap space. Solid forwards on a decent budget are essential in the salary cap world we play in. Even in our stellar 90 and 2000 sides we had the likes of Ian Pickavance, Andy Leatham, Julian O’Neill, Mark Edmonton etc who were solid cost effective front row workhorses...
Adding to our issue, though, is that we have Ashworth & Lees emerging as SL-quality props, to complement the two best (probably) props in SL in Walmsley & Thompson, and an experienced Australian 'front row workhorse'. We also have Louis.
That has led to Douglas taking up a chunk of the Cap playing (and bossing) a division below.
Amor is a capable prop, but we really don't need him. I can agree with the argument that it was prudent to see how Walmsley returned but, now he looks good as new, we're prop-heavy.
I think we could safely lose Amor and run with Walmsley, Thompson, Douglas, Ashworth & Lees, along with LMS. That allows a good level of rotation.
We usually see within the first couple of months of SL one team or another either realise their prop options are lacking, or pick up a long-term injury. We could perhaps pick up a little bit of dosh for him and free-up a chunk of Cap.
Unless we have identified a worthwhile target for the spare money that would significantly improve our squad, I’m not in favour of releasing players. Firstly, you never know whether an injury crisis is just around the corner and, more importantly, why would we want one of our rivals to strengthen themselves? Reading the comments of Wigan and Leeds fans, for example, many have identified a need to add a prop or two to their squads and I can’t see any benefit in helping those clubs compete better with us.
Presumably any club making a signing would regard that as strengthening their squad. If you manage to read my post carefully, I mentioned Wigan and Leeds as examples. I suggest you go away and work out what that means and, hopefully but with no great expectation on my part, extrapolate that to conclude that we shouldn’t be helping any club to improve its playing roster.