Amone's defence is very shakey. In half a game he missed 6 tackles against the roosters. He is a grabber.
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Amone's defence is very shakey. In half a game he missed 6 tackles against the roosters. He is a grabber.
He is still very young so he has plenty of time to reach his maximum height/weight/muscle build up which I hope will make him a Freddy Fittler type of 5/8th.
Amone, Sloan and Sullivan were part of an "elite" JF squad in 2019 - 3 years ago - which included several other "quality" young players who mostly have moved on/ progressed into either higher grades with us or to other clubs. From what I can see from highlights, and maybe other forumites who actually have been to their games might want to comment, what their defence was like. I am sure that they had no problems with their attack.
Yes , like all the young players like Walker & him , defence is built on confidence in their body and until the body matures arm grabbing is prevalent. Using their whole teenage body in tackles is not as effective as it is in a mature body. Agree with others here that we don't know what weight Amone will end up but he may also make an excellent lock.
You make a valid point re defence and confidence in your body.
I think I remember reading somewhere that Amone was seen as a future back rower, so heres hoping he can build himself up to handle that.
At the moment all I have seen from Amone is a lesser Bory Snoman without a kicking game. I don’t think he’s a sine player at this stage of his career , I hope I’m wrong and praying to be proven so
The service from dummy half to the first receiver is too slow and this makes it easy for the defending team to prevent the ball being distributed to the outside men to give our backs more space to do their thing. Suli needs just a bit more and he will explode. In general our ball movement is way to slow all round compared to the much better teams.
I like Ben Hunt but I've found him very slow as first receiver also. When he opts to run he's quite quick but when he's going to pass, I'd say he's about the same pace as AM.
Pointed it out last week on here, one of Hunts problems is he continues to try and sell that one handed dummy to himself far to often which quite often puts the players outside of him in two minds and hence slows the attack down and pulls it out of shape ....secondly he continues to crab sideways and just hands the ball to one of our flat footed forwards which results in a nothing play.......lastly we need someone else not just Hunt to kick downfield after the 5th tackle....I particularly noticed on Sunday how often he had to rush his kicks
Totally agree BSE, the case has always been made that hunt cannot continue to be the only playmaker and kicker in the side, its too one dimensional and very easy for the opposition to shut down, we need a point of difference desperately , look if its not Amone then it has got to be someone else with a fair deal of creativity, its not Bird either,
We need a Scott Drinkwater type of player somewhere on the field as well who can kick. Someone with a bit of dash around the play the ball area. When the Panthers are attacking, Koroisau passes the ball out quickly to a player he sees as a likely tackle breaker or to a speedy half or back. Cleary is quick and so is Luai - they don't have much hesitation in what they do and so the other players act on their speed.
Our problem is just not another creative playmaker , its the speed out of the ruck from the 9, do we bite the bullet and get young Mulheisen in there with Sullivan at 6.
I have been saying the same as Junior is not a playmaker. If we had a more creative half I'd say keep him at 5/8 but the skipper is not that. Junior may have missed a few tackles, prob nerves but he made some beauts too. The tackle of the day was the grass cutter by Moses on that runaway Tiger.. stopped a probable try.
I'd say our best option in the halves right now is Bird 6 and Hut 7 however, they need a better game plan:
Harry Grant won the rookie of the year playing for the Tigers in 2020 he was 22 Mulheisen is 21 now so not sure what Dragons are waiting for?
That's because we have signed McCullough to the end of 2023 and Hook was instrumental in getting him to our club and he will stick by him until then is what I think.
I am afraid Hook becoming more and more like Mary with his favorites being selected week after week!
