This was an interesting read and Matt Dufty certainly polarises opinion more than most.
Matt is a very exciting player. He went through a bad patch about 3/4 of the way through the season and seemed to be down on confidence. His defence is good but not great. All fullbacks miss a few tackles and playing 23 NRL games that’s understandable. Other than missing that winger from Bulldogs when he let the bloke go and thought he could reel him in during the end of that dreadful drubbing we copped; nothing in particular comes to mind as a bad miss. I do recall some very good open play one on one tackles effected by Dufty.
Yes, I would prefer if possible to have Teddy, Roger TS or Slater or Munster. Other than that there Is pros and cons line balling the rest of Mickeys list. I am a big Barba fan however he is off to the Cows. I could never get too excited with Duges at the back. He ran hard and hit the Dragons scene with promise in his fabulous 1st game against bottom placed eels, but thereafter settled into a quite slow but OK fullback without the prodigious capacity of his young Canberra years.
Salary cap space is a problem when we talk of players. I am told that Matt D is on $230K concluding 2019 which if true is good value for him. Means we can keep the FIzzell, Simms Vaughan WIddop etc at the club. I think he will go well next year.
