I hope your right but I see guys run it at him and he hardly ever stops them. When he has the ball its basically the same in reverse but I'd like to feel confident that he could tackle a player who was trying to go around him.
If our sliding defence worked properly, players wouldn't try and run around him as they'd be chancing their arm at a very narrow corridor down the sideline, with defenders moving towards them.
But our backrowers and centres are so f**king slow laterally that they have to move forward more than slide, and that creates gaps between Nofoaluma's inside shoulder and the centre (who is moving forward, not toward the sideline).
If Blair was a more reliable defender, i'd have him in the second row, defending wider. he is a good slide defender, so his motion would force his centre to slide, instead of rush up forward.
This was the greatest asset we got from Fulton.
