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Swap Bird, Lomax back to right center.
Rava is a beast in yardage, an excellent finisher, has significantly upped his reliability on high kick reception, and has improved his defensive decision making this year too (great try saver on Paulo on the weekend). Plus he's only 26 and signed presumably a good value (for us) extension last year. It's really not a conversation we need to have.
For me watching the game against Manly in person, his defensive positioning was horrible. He's always too far inside of his man and leaves so much room on the outside for him to just fly past (as Rava isn't the fastest). His finishing and running ability has never been in question but his man-to-man marking and sometimes 50/50 bombs need some work.
Most if not all teams, compress in defence, you will notice that the winger is about 20m in especially when the ball is on the other side of the field, also Rava is generally keeping the spacing in defence, no point in him leaving a 10m gap between him and Suli. I was watching the Warriors game on the weekend and there was this period of play when they were defending, the whole defensive line moved up as one and when the attack moved to the left their whole defence slide across in unison it actually looked choreographed, they did for the whole set..
At least this way the manager can do the work and let us know which clubs are keen officially.
Yes, this may be an option but both Lomax and Bird are also right side players.
Definitely makes sense but from my POV it didn't seem like we were moving up as one and got a bit lucky with some pretty crap passing from Manly which could've led to tries if they came off.
There were definitely some crap passes from Manly. From where I was sitting on the hill though it didn't look like Rava did much wrong defensively. Considering Manly have a much quicker backline than us, they struggled to get on the outside of him. Plus two try saving moments, once when he bumped their Centre into touch, the other where he managed to get his finger tips to a Cherry-Evans grubber to take it away from their winger.
Fair enough, the pros outweigh the cons with him. At least he wants to be at the club unlike some.
For him to agree to that means he has another contract lined up.
Yes he can come back for less
