hookers for next year

[maple_69]

I don’t think Egan has done anything to earn it over Katoa who was pretty good this year. He got loose down the stretch but wouldn’t have expected to be playing 80 as a starting hooker when preparing for the year. I think he deserves a proper crack with a proper pre-season and let Egan come after him. I do hope Egan can surpass him though.

 

[Fangs]

Can you add Nathan Cleary to the list please?

 

[Panfa]

Egan is our best option he is still learning and will get better we need to have patience or we will lose him and some other club will benefit

 

[Abacus]

I thought Egan was good today but I'll need another look as pretty much all I can remember is our backs playing fumbleball.

I can't remember any glaring shockers from Egan.

 

[The Realist]

I thought Egan was good today but I'll need another look as pretty much all I can remember is our backs playing fumbleball.

I can't remember any glaring shockers from Egan.

The primary job of the hooker is to get the forwards rolling forward with momentum. In this he failed. It was not ALL his fault, the forwards were softer than Parramatta's but his service was slow, timing a little off and he rarely tested the markers. At this point I would take ACL-less Wallace over him if he hadn't retired because even though he was slowing down and his running game started to disappear - he got the boys rolling forward very well.

 

[franklin2323]

Can you add Nathan Cleary to the list please?

Daddy won't move him

 

[Abacus]

The primary job of the hooker is to get the forwards rolling forward with momentum. In this he failed. It was not ALL his fault, the forwards were softer than Parramatta's but his service was slow, timing a little off and he rarely tested the markers. At this point I would take ACL-less Wallace over him if he hadn't retired because even though he was slowing down and his running game started to disappear - he got the boys rolling forward very well.

I'll take another look at the game. Tamou seemed to go ok off the dummy half service. And at 1 point in the 1st half I thought I saw that we'd made twice as many tackles as Parra so I'm guessing Egan got through a fair bit of defensive work. I was surprised he came off not long after his first run resulting in a try.

I think we need to stop throwing up Wal as an option - that is some real rose-coloured vision and the ship has well and truly sailed.

 

[Pomoz]

I'll take another look at the game. Tamou seemed to go ok off the dummy half service. And at 1 point in the 1st half I thought I saw that we'd made twice as many tackles as Parra so I'm guessing Egan got through a fair bit of defensive work. I was surprised he came off not long after his first run resulting in a try.

I think we need to stop throwing up Wal as an option - that is some real rose-coloured vision and the ship has well and truly sailed.

It's a good point you made there. Tamou made 133m and JFH 124m. His dummy half service seemed to work ok for them.

What I saw was a young player playing within himself and trying not to stuff up. With more confidence he will use his running game more. Mind you, yesterday there were very few people making space for him to try and run from dummy half. Cameron Smith would have struggled to create space behind a pack being spanked by the opposition.

We just looked unfit and ponderous. If the coaching staff have made a call to build our strength and bulk up a bit, then we need a few weeks to get our condition up to the right level. We certainly missed fewer tackles than the Eeels did, in spite of having made a 123 tackles more. The extra muscle will help us in the wrestle and to dominate the ruck, but only when we get fit enough.

 

[Kilkenny]

I have been concerned for some time that neither Egan or Katoa have a running game or the game plan doesn't allow for them to scoot out of dummy half. A quick scoot out of dummy half by the hooker is such an important weapon particularly on the back of a good hit up by a forward where you can make an easy ten metres and or catch the markers not square/defence not back 10 and pick up a soft penalty. We were on the back foot for the majority of the contest against the Eels, largely of our own making, so hard to really set where we are at.

 

[Panther_Daz]

Unfortunately the way our salary cap is set up we have to make do with a hooker and fullback who are still not established as NRL players.

Due to upgrades in elsewhere we simply can't afford an elite player in these positions.

Hopefully one of Katoa or Egan develops into a quality player. If one of them does then we can pay that one more and flick the other.

This season is like a trial for them both.

 

[Mr Angry]

You could do worse than Segeyaro.

 

[Bob]

Unfortunately the way our salary cap is set up we have to make do with a hooker and fullback who are still not established as NRL players.

Due to upgrades in elsewhere we simply can't afford an elite player in these positions.

Hopefully one of Katoa or Egan develops into a quality player. If one of them does then we can pay that one more and flick the other.

This season is like a trial for them both.

Edwards is also off contract this year I think, I’d be prepared to let him go and run with Aekins, for me Edwards whilst a good player he seems a little unlucky on the injury front

 

[Luke Bowden]

You could do worse than Segeyaro.

I doubt we have the cap space left to sign him.

 

[Mr Angry]

I doubt we have the cap space left to sign him.

Probably correct, sad for him, out of a job, because our blokes cannot count beans and NRL are dopey and punish players.

 

[tripster]

Katoa definitely gets us going forward better than Egan, and if Katoa takes one or two steps before passing he generally draws in both markers due to his size.

That said, if we had our time again we should have been keeping Api and letting Seggy. We wouldn’t have had any problems at Hooker then.

 

[herbert henry1908]

Edwards is also off contract this year I think, I’d be prepared to let him go and run with Aekins, for me Edwards whilst a good player he seems a little unlucky on the injury front

2020 for Edwards. Although contracts don’t mean a whole lot.

https://amp.news.com.au/sport/nrl/p...0/news-story/a55df712eee6ba376959fd6966457c74

 

[The Realist]

Stick with Katoa. If he up's his fitness slightly, and cuts down on his error rate a little he will be an elite hooker.

 

[Panfa]

Egan is the best option at hooker we have got id rather lose katoa than egan kid needs more game time to improve his game.Damien cook played a stack of reserve grade and changed about 4 clubs before he finally hit his straps.

 

[Kilkenny]

Does anyone know if Tricky Trindalls young bloke Maurice is still with the club?

 

[Panther_Daz]

Does anyone know if Tricky Trindalls young bloke Maurice is still with the club?

Funny you ask that, I was thinking about him the other day when I was looking through our hooker depth.

I asked the club and they said he is currently sitting out for disciplinary reasons and he will rejoin the squad when he complies with certain criteria.