KogarahWarrior
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I understand your Pov, Crush. But, Sloan, unlike Walsh, has a shit team around him to build off. Walsh became one of the best once he had the best players around him helping him to build a solid platform. Also, Ponga was in absolutely no way flying at 22. He was pretty mediocre compared to his talent and pay packet until around 2022 or 23. Papenhuyzen also had more time in development and under one of the best coaches EVER.I hear you and see your point but when do we cut our losses and say we need a more complete fullback?
Sloan is improving, I don’t disregard that but fullback is such an integral position, can we afford to spend years developing a kid who is likely never going to be a Reece Walsh, Kalyan Ponga, Ryan Papenhousen? All those blokes were absolutely flying at 22 years old.
In fact, Reece is younger than Sloan I think.
We say nothing to lose because we aren’t going to win a comp this year but what if we were heading into the finals which isn’t out of the question.
Would you rather be going into week one of the finals with Lomax at the back or Sloan?
Against say the Dogs.
Sure we won’t win the comp but to knock the dogs out of the finals? Give me Lomax please, I want a fullback with confidence, guts and determination.
Anyway, won’t happen but just throwing it around.
I've been disappointed with Sloan's performances too, to be honest, but I'm trying to be patient and take it positively and just say hey, at least he's getting better each week in areas he was lacking in previously and try to understand how poorly he's been eased into FG