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I really can’t see Gunco as anything above a middling centre. He certainly doesn’t have the power (mostly because he doesn’t have the size or speed/acceleration) of a Waqa, Latrell, etc. Anticipation isn’t a requirement either. Centres mostly just pick a line and run it, hardly need to anticipate anything. Unless you mean defensive anticipation in which case, how do you figure a guy with a handful of games at centre would have good anticipation? And his defence similar to his power would at best be middle of road and potentially worse. Taka is a completely different body type. His acceleration wouldn’t be much slower than Gunco, but his size equals more power. Plus he has way more experience at centre. Gunco’s all around defence would probably be better than Taka, but front on Taka has him easy.
I guess I’ll be the bigger man then and give you your time in the sun
Those are the current 4 best fullbacks and are all on or soon to be on around a million dollars. I reckon Guth is probably in the next tier down and payed a few hundred grand less. Just because he isn't a 'top 4' fullback doesn't mean the jury is still out on him. There are 16 first choice fullbacks in the comp. If you are 5th or 6th best you are still probably pretty dam good.
I should clarify I don't think he shouldn't be our fullback. And maybe he's 5th or 6th best, or 7th or 8th, but then you're starting to get pretty close to average. But let's be honest because history repeats. We won the spoon last year and also Gutho started the year on fire. Then we obviously went on to the finals and won our first game in yonks. That's the classic type of situation that leads fans (particularly ours?) to overrate our players. I don't reckon his second half of the year was all that good and before the year started most of us questioned his best position. Half a season shouldn't change that much. All I'm saying is that it's not set in stone.
He should stay at fullback even though I have said previously that he would be better for us in the centres. It's all about the team and being able to exploit our strengths yet cover our weaknesses, as a team. If we can't do that as well as grind out a game (especially away) when it gets tough then we'll get more of the same come 2020+.
I don't think anyone's suggesting he isn't our current best fullback. But it would be interesting to see the comments here if we lose our first few games.
Well, we do play a fair chunk of our games away to start the season so anything is possible.
SACK THE LOT OF THEM!!!!
We sign someone like Teddy we could lose someone like Will Smith, don’t these merkins understand squad balance FFS!!!!
I’d have Tom Alphabet in a prefect world, but would not want to lose two $300k players. Id rather have a balanced squad. Otherwise you end up with a Dessie squad with zero depth.
