You want us to judge the pair of them based on one game in which only one of them played?
You're normally one of the more cluey posters on here but your comments about Chris Lawrence have so far all seemed to be grounded in emotion.
Are you a Tigers hater or do you have a personal grudge against Lawrence?
I think you're misreading what I'm saying?
All I'm suggesting is that Tonga is a better player than Lawrence. Sure, Lawrence was dynamite the previous 2 weeks, but I'm arguing that Tonga is still a better centre than him.
This does not mean that I think Lawrence is a bad player - I think he's a tremendous centre (you may have noticed above that I hinted he should've been NSW player last year) - but I don't want people devaluing the abilities of Tonga by suggesting that he's simply a mediocre centre.
When we got Tahu back from union I was stoked - yes, a class player out wide.
Signing Tonga is that with again with gravy on top. Although he has certain defensive lapses, all told he's a wonderful talent, and one of the best centres in the game.
Don't take my word for it that he's better than Lawrence, go ask the Tigers coach which guy he preferred at the end of last season in the Aussie team.
Yeah yeah, they're both a year older now, but Lawrence has only played 7 games of footy this season (2 were sublime). To argue that Lawrence is now better is obviously to make a judgement call based on 2 games of football....
For me that's not enough of a sample size - stoked that we've got Tonga for the next 2 seasons.
At the end of that time will Lawrence be a better footy player? Most likely yes - but as of right now, we've got the better one.
oh - and I don't hate the Tigers or Lawrence at all.
