It's a great achievement and perhaps a sign of the times. I wonder how long it will be before we see a 400 game NRL career?
On Pearce, he's a victim of too much too soon. I wonder how his career would have panned out if he underwent the same development path as DCE? Develop through the grades before finally getting a taste in 2011. I think it would have done him the world of good.
Instead he's thrust into a struggling Roosters line up and is asked to do his best. He actually does so well, he manages to help the Chooks become a Top 4 team at 19 and is then asked to help save the series for NSW...which of course he can't do against a backline of Slater (in his prime), Folau, GI & JT.
He loses confidence but since NSW has nobody in the halves, they stick with Junior Junior and try to build the team around him. However, it was the worst thing that could have happened to Pearce and once he was confident his Origin career was over, he absolutely killed it for the Roosters, taking them from a really good side to a premiership winning side.
