Jack is showing his versatility today and they have him playing fullback
You're getting awfully worked up over a young kid, ease up a bit.
He wasn't even the stand out forward in the under 20's Origin game.
Scored more tries than any sharks player
Jono Wright scored 14 tries the year we signed him, he has scored 9 in 2 years for us FWIW.
So has Matthew Wright and I wouldn't want him back either.i think Brown is a decent cover player but for us he would be a starter.
I believe we should never have let Wright go.
The kid was never ever given a chance to flourish at his preferred spot.
How was he supposed to carve out a career with us that saw him promoted to young, played off the bench, on the wing, at fullback, at 5/8 and in the back row.
The guy is an out and out centre. He scored our opening try for us in a game in the centres last year and was dropped after round 3. He was never gifted games like Pomeroy.
He was scraped after a poor showing.
Yet, he moves up to the Cowboys and they somehow unlock his talent? Don't say Thurston, Carney was equal to Thurston last year.
Was it coaching? I will say yes. There is a clique at the club. If you aren't in it, you never will be.
If you are in it and you fall out, you will never get back in (see Gards)
I had seen Wright play long before his time at Cronulla, and he is the most naturally gifted centre I had seen.
I had the opportunity to watch a few training sessions and he would carve up, yet on the weekend would find himself out of position.
Cronulla as a club has a habit of writing kids off if they have a shocker.
It happened to Mills, it happened to Chad, it is happening to Gards, it happened to Wright, and it will continue to happen to the kids whilst this culture we have is installed at the club.
It also happened to Ben Ross, but that is a different story.
God help Brown, Holmes and this bird kid if they play 1 bad game in first grade.
End rant.
As for Mitch Brown, he seems to have matured alot, probably because he got away from the club.
I am all for this signing, if he was signed to be first cab off the ranks with an injury.
Sadly, it looks like he will be first cab off the ranks for the right centre spot.
There is a better solution to that though, shift Ricky out right, put feki at Centre and have Mitch and Gagan on the wings.
Val Holmes won't start the year in firsts before anyone mentions this, he will be given time to mature against the big boys in NSW Cup and also time to put some weight on.
