Poupou Escobar
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He’s a very experienced playmaker and knows better than you or any journalist which decisions to make on the field. Don’t get sucked into the Ricky Stuart rugby league media melodrama. You have been fooled by a couple of talking heads trying to create drama.
We’ve been through this. You claimed he was dropped to the bench (disproven) and then that he continued starting but played limited minutes (also disproved). Your memory of his 2021 season is terribly flawed, because you were gutted we lost Mahoney and desperate to blame his replacement for it. But as it turns out, we’ve been fine without Mahoney, and signing Hodgson hasn’t hurt us at all. He has held his own and even contributed to the development of the rookie Brendan Hands.
And here you still think we need a dummy half for his highlights. The way we attack we need a steady hand with the discipline to stick to our game plan of controlling the ball and building fatigue pressure on the opposition. We don’t need Api Koroisau’s running game eating up our cap space and taking running opportunities away from our dangerous halves.
I’m sure everyone knew it, which is why he’s reportedly on half the money he was on at Canberra.
Like every club they need to prioritise where they spend their money. Hooker is only as important as you want it to be. For example, only one of the top four clubs has a star dummy half.
He was uninjured when we signed him. He finished 2021 strong, playing 20 games and starting in every one of their last 13 games. He ran and tackled well and set up 10 tries. It was a successful comeback from his 2020 injury.
Hands is inexperienced and untested over 80 minutes against the strong teams. There’s a reason Arthur’s tested Hopgood at dummy half on Saturday. And Hands has made more errors per game than Hodgson this year.
For a team with plenty of dumb in its athletic spine, I’d say Hodgson’s experience has been valuable this year. We’ve been hearing it out of the group since the preseason.
That’s exactly why we refuse to overpay for players. It’s a team game, and the loss of one player shouldn’t derail a strong team. Meanwhile after some unlucky early losses you’ve been predicting that we’d challenge for the spoon due to losing the likes of Mahoney and Papali’i. But instead they’re the ones challenging for the spoon while we are again on track to make the finals, despite our club management supposedly being even stupider than you are.
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