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I watched Garner closely again against the Sea Eagles and while I understand there are some who are optimistic Ivan and his staff can improve him like they have done with others in recent times I just don’t see to much upside in him.
I just don’t see it him but glad to be proved wrong. He is certainly not a replacement for Kikau so we have to find a replacement for him from somewhere.
Kikau promised our fans he would deliver in 2022 and thus far he is certainly delivering on his promise and on track for his best and most consistent season. Good and bad around this I guess.
Not big enough Alice, currently listed as 104kg, he may add a few more kilo’s but no where near the size of Viliame. We need him to develop and quickly and I am optimistic he can be NRL quality, just not quite Kikau quality.
Would be good. Needs to be given an opportunity at some point this season Just to see whether he may be up to it.
He doesn't have the footy IQ to play like a halfback like Yeo does. He can run the training shape but that's the limit of his ability. To fool the defence in the middle of the field to get you need to be on the field to engage the defenders you need more. It's nuance, to lie with your body language to make defenders hesitate, to play slow thinking you're going to pass before the line only to run deep into the line then pass, to fake inside then play out but do it believably with the confidence of a real half to sell it, etc.
I wanna know when his measurement were taken because in the trail he looked far bigger than that. Hopgood is recorded at 102kgs. There's no way that's the weight difference. Just look at them. But more importantly he just doesn't play physical enough. He's plays like if Cartwright dumped some skill stats and put them into strength stats but with a similar mentality. He's a handy point of difference in attack but in contact he's raw.
