Aitken is a one dimensional centre.. Runs straight and hard only
Too slow for centre
No offloading skills to set up his outside winger
Bereft of creativity or a step
On the plus he's a solid defender but if ur comparing him to Lafais size, pace, ball skills, step, experience including grand final appearance, international and try scoring prowess circa 2014 there's no contest..
Stop defending local juniors.. U. Wouldn't be favouring Aitken if he wasnt a junior..
We need to put the best players in the starting line up and unfortunately for Aitken he's a distant second to Lafai or Mcgregor wouldn't have spent the dollars on both Mann and him if he thought Aitken was up for it..
Aitken needs more time to develop his craft.. He's solid but by no means a strike centre and that's what Dragons need..
You say stop defending local juniors but you keep supporting questionable buys.
Simple stats are Lafai last year was poor so stop talking up his 2014 form it counts for nothing because a whole season and 22 NRL 1st grade games have gone past.
You quote all the stats around 2014 to validate your argument and talk about how all the play at the Dogs went to the other side bla bla bla and then go on to say that Aitken is not a strike centre, yet take nothing into account for EA being outside a highly dis-functional halves pairing, BM who is not a natural 7 (and furthermore has recently stated that next year he is going to be even more selfish with the ball) and on top of that a hog for a full back.
If BM & JD learn how to play team football then you might be able to see what EA can really do so put the blame where it belongs and not on the kid for our pedestrian attack last year.
If you think that TL will make a difference if we play the same way next year you are kidding yourself.
If you think we will play a different style next year then the kid deserves his chance before some bloke who had his best season more than 22 games ago.
