Mal Meninga said:
Always thought highly of Stewart but never actually followed him closely. To those who watch him week in week out, what's he need to work on?
In recent years I would've said he needed to work on his 'safeness' under the high-ball, his kick returns and I would love to see him either develop a step or tackle-breaking ability.
These days I have no worries about his high-ball work (no concerns when a bomb goes up, unlike 2 years ago after the Broncos disaster at Suncorp....), but he still needs to run the ball back a bit harder from kicks (although this as well has improved this year, he still doesn't go as hard as Mini or Hunt).
I don't think he'll ever have the tackle-busting ability of Mini or McKinnon, it's just not his style of game, but a step would be nice.
He's a fairly complete player these days, and his ability to sniff out a try is as good as anyone in the comp.