For me when coote does leave id like to see welsby given the 1 jersey, yes hes shakey under a high ball but he will get better with practice and time
We really need to be looking at Matty English for me.
I just don't get this. Yes he's still young and was apparently excellent as a junior but it seems he was an early bloomer where his maturity helped him stand out. As what generally happens the slower maturing lads catch up later and I think that's what's happened and he's plateaued. If you want to play anywhere in a back line in a top SL side you have to have a range of basic attributes then on top a little bit of gold dust. These attributes would seem to be things like pace, confidence under the ball, speed of thought, positional sense, even more pace. Some you can improve some you're born with. I'm afraid from what I've seen he hasn't displayed many of these at all. KW does him no favours continually finding a place for him and exposing him as has been happening, he was captain on Monday I believe. It's absolute madness in any walk of life to applaud someone when truly not deserving as it can take away some of their drive to improve as they believe what they're doing is good enough. In my view he would be better reflecting on things with his supporters over the close season and coming to terms about where he's at and what he needs to work on in targeting a future position of his own. In my view based on what I've seen he's certainly no full back or centre and had a pretty awful showing on Monday in the halves. That doesn't leave too many options unfortunately without some drastic changes.
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https://www.nrl.com/news/2020/11/05/...-all-16-clubs/
NRL reporting Sione signed for Saints
https://www.newcastleknights.com.au/...diate-release/
Released from his contract to join us
"If you're going to strive for a change then you have to keep going upwards,"
Keiron Cunningham, 2016
I think it’s a bit odd that we’re signing a big name second row after signing Thompson and the emergence of Bentley.
I can only presume that either Bentley may not be staying or they’re going to be using Mata’utia differently.
At 24 he looks a good signing on paper with excellent experience already. I mentioned on another thread how we signed Soliola at an early age after a few bad injuries and look how good he came. It’s refreshing to sign a young Aussie on a long term contract, who similar to Soliola got big wraps from a young age, hopefully he turns out to be a great signing.
Saints statement:
https://www.saintsrlfc.com/2020/11/1...ione-matautia/
Maybe we are not signing him if he has been released and we were not told?
https://www.saintsrlfc.com/2020/11/1...ione-matautia/
Or simply the case that we’re signing 2 good players to replace Taia, Peyroux and Paulo, even though Paulo has barely played. With the likelihood that we’ll have a hooker in the bench pretty much every game, having a player like Mata’uita who can cover centre and wing if necessary gives us a lot more flexibility in case of injury.
Forwards win games. The backs decide by how much.
I wonder if any other club come in for him now that he’s a free agent .
Having his brother Peter at Cas should help him and his family to settle a little easier I suppose.