Also with contracts you are playing for off field as much of on field.
Our guys particularly Luai cop shit but off the field are model players. Always sign authographs and so on.
For the back half of the year id love to see a new determination from luai.
Just stop worrying about pumping up the boys or being a pest.
Focus on becoming the best 5/8 he can be. He is capable of brilliant stuff but goes missing or gets too worried about the niggle and loses focus.
Id just love to see him zip it and just be determined to own his own game and really take ownership of the team.
To often i think he sits back and sees blokes like nathan, api, yeo, kiks around him and he just takes the back seat.
I want to see him push nath or yeo out of the way at times and demand the ball.. i want to see him doing is grubbers again in goal for 6 agains.
Just see him own the game.
Weve seen at times what he is capable of. He can really turn a game on his head. His running game can be up there with the best in the gamez same with his short grubbers.
But we just see him take the back seat to often. Whens the last time we saw him even try a 40/20?? He is more than capable of it... again i think he just sees the quality of players around him and seems to become a bit of a passenger..
If we can get to the point where he is as confident as nath is in terms of running and kicking game than our team will go to a whole new level.
Hes just one of those guys that i think doesnt quite realise how good he could be. Ive got no doubt he (and the others) will be hurting. I just hope ivan or ciraldo pulls him aside over the next few days and just tell him to own his game for the back half of the year. They should be telling him to be better than munster every week. Have 10 or 15 runs a game. Dont let nath do all the directing and demand the ball at times when he sees its on.
It was all a bit to one dimensional in origin with everything running through nath api and yeo.
In the finals last year (yes we were injured) we struggled because the whistle goes away and the 10 gets let go and there is way more pressure on your halfs.
Luai can have a huge huge influence on the panthers...and even tho he may seem over confident i think he might need a little love from ciraldo and ivan and a bit of a push to get him really firing for us. Not one or 2 good plays a game but 80mins of domination like munster does.