Why is Lulia copping it so much?
Yeah he had a bad day with his hands last game. But out of all our three-quarters so far this year, he's been the most dangerous in attack. In fact looking at the stats, he's averaged the most metres, second most line-breaks, most line-break assists, least missed tackles, most tackle busts, and he's made less than half the amount of errors as Naiqama or Vuna.
I know stats don't tell the full story obviously, but I only looked them up because I thought I must have been imagining things after reading some of the comments about him on here.
When Mad Dog is back I'd consider looking at having him and Lulia in the centres with Naiqama and Vuna on the wings. Lulia has the size, speed and strength that make or the perfect centre. He runs good lines and hits the ball at pace.
In the last two weeks he's had to mark two internationals in Tate and Hodges and they did nothing in attack. The only centre who have looked threatening against us have been Hayne and Shortland and both of them were on the other side of the field.
I think Lulia has a lot of potential if those poor hands were just a one off last week.