Yer it's quiet fashionable to bag Tony Williams. Even when he is playing ok. :roll:
Top metres run last night, top tackle breaks as well, no errors, 2 tries. What more do you want? He's 21 and will get even better.
My concern is Hodkinson. Crap kicking options, missed tackles. Manly look so much more dangerous when Foran is kicking and organising attack.
Like I said, I'm not by any means blaming him for the loss (no-one wold have touched the Panthers Fri night).
But are there stats for bad reads in defence, lumbering the ball back with no intensity at all, passing the ball to other players in worse positions (and half the size) for kick returns, lack of involvement by trying to take more dummy half runs when we're deep in our own territory.
When he gets into dummy half, the majority of times he passes it for someone else to ruck it out. For his size its he who should be is doing the bullocking out of our end.
He is a lot better than last year, and is trying, but good intentions don't necessarily make you a better player than others who aren't being given a run.
Fair enough if he had the speed and ability to create like a Manu Vatuvei you'd cop it. But he just seems scared most of the time. I'm not sure if he's a quiet bloke by nature and so finds it hard to assert himself or what.
As for the tries, you can't call on that stat, anyone who can catch a footy and run 10 meters could have scored all but maybe one or two of his tries this year.
I don't like to bag a Manly player, but can you honestly tell me that Hopoate or Whare wouldn't bring more to the table than Williams at the moment?
