... and on the odd occasion he reverses the polarity and sends the ball flying forwards at a rate of knots...
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... and on the odd occasion he reverses the polarity and sends the ball flying forwards at a rate of knots...
Yep could be, because we are light in outside backs ourselves this season. We are just one injury away from Takarangi playing a full season in the centres for us.
The coach isn't going to drop his centres I'm afraid.
Do you have any info on this? I am so done with watching Lafai and Aitken, that even watching Williame and Jennings, as mediocre as they might end up being, would give me some excitement for the season.
I know but just let a man dream
We are definitely up against it injury wise but even with what we have left its likely some good players will miss out. Given that McInnes is out we will be carrying a hooker on the bench so that leaves 3 spots. We will start with Vaughan, Graham, Friz, Sims and Merrin with Lawrie, Host, Fuimaono, Ford, and possibly Ivan to fight it out for those 3 remaining spots. We are short a prop or two for sure, once Kerr and K.Sims are back though its looking a pretty solid pack with some good players to miss out. Personally for the first few weeks id like to see Merrin on the bench as a prop. Our bench is looking quite weak and would be good to not lose too much at the first rotation. I would start with Host at 13, my two bench props would be Merrin and Lawrie with Ford as a second row replacement and outside back utility if needed. My 4th bench spot would be Isaac Luke, I would start with Billy Brittain as he looks very controlled and really get the forwards rolling and will get us off to a good start. Luke is a good dummy half runner and can come on to add impact and experience off the bench.
That's how it should be though really, not all teams are like the Rorters. When you have wingers like Fergo and Sivo, the backup outside backs are highly likely to be journeyman, plodders or very raw juniors, otherwise they wouldn't be content to sit by waiting for an injury. Problem with us is our first choice outside backs are all basically most teams backup standards and our backups are rejects from the last chance saloon. For the record id take Takariangi over Aitken and even throw some money your way.
Yeah nah. The centres are definitely the main problem but the wingers are not "very good FG wingers"
Taka is big and skilful but a walking brain fart and a liability in defence. I reckon he'd make most teams top 17's but he isn't s starting centre anymore. And yes we all can't have the depth of the Rorters
Nene wasn't a reject he left for a better deal, Pearson is a backup winger, Don and Sammy will start. Garrick was a loss no doubt but DCE is a very very good club halfback and gets some good ball out that way regularly. He wouldn't look half as good for us. For the record I thought Pearson had promise and outside a decent centre like Wiliame would have looked pretty decent but we will never know.
Nene and Pearson have bounced around a bit from club to club. When they are on they are quite good but I wouldn't classify them as very good FG wingers.
Yeah they definitely will be, there is no way they are giving a spot so someone they haven't even trained with but hopefully at very least he plays centre in CC with Saab outside him If they strike up a decent combo and Aitken and Rava fail its a ready made combination.
Possibly the worst back 5 in Dragons history I reckon. At least since the JV, Blacklock, BMoz, JMoz, Gasnier, Cooper, Wishart, Mary, Boyd, even the Lee Hookey's of the world are a mile ahead of what we have now.
