Ball playing lock

[swoop]

When Dylan Walker was still with in the NO.14 he came on and played like another half which gave us another point of attack and was pretty good defensively. Andrew Webster spotted that and signed him and refined it a bit and was a dangerous ball playing attacker.

The eels signed Walker and he's doing the same for them, and caused us all problems with his attack.

Now Webster has another player in Erin Clarke who is a great ball runner and defender who plays lots of minutes, then when teams start to fatigue he's is used as and half passing the ball and getting lots of offlads.

We need a lock in that mold or a 14 that can come on fresh off the bench and create a bit of havoc.

 

[Red Baron]

Traditionally in this game, if your halves are OK and your lock is OK, the team is better than OK.

 

[ManlyTragic]

Traditionally in this game, if your halves are OK and your lock is OK, the team is better than OK.

You could say that about the hooker as well! …. And at least one decent prop!

Just sayin’

 

[Stewbojevic]

When Dylan Walker was still with in the NO.14 he came on and played like another half which gave us another point of attack and was pretty good defensively. Andrew Webster spotted that and signed him and refined it a bit and was a dangerous ball playing attacker.

The eels signed Walker and he's doing the same for them, and caused us all problems with his attack.

Now Webster has another player in Erin Clarke who is a great ball runner and defender who plays lots of minutes, then when teams start to fatigue he's is used as and half passing the ball and getting lots of offlads.

We need a lock in that mold or a 14 that can come on fresh off the bench and create a bit of havoc.

We use Jake and Brown in this rotation.. unfortunately both are now too slow to pose a running threat so their passing games are less effective.

 

[jbb/james]

Walker was a bad loss in the end
Lots of wasted opportunity but he came good at lock
Still wish we had him
was very dangerous once he moved there. He like to beat the opposition . He has the fever

 

[manly al]

Sure that Manly would have preferred to have kept Walker in that utility or 13 sub role and the 350 K that he was valued for that role at the time was probably quite realistic .
Quite understandable that he would have been inclined to then take up the Warriors offer to switch there with an apparent 500 K deal .
No idea how much the Eels are paying him or whatever freight arrangements with that early season move .
In the current circumstances at 13 for Manly , does seem fairly clear that either a Jake or Brown option there is not going to provide any major net benefit .
Jazz while hardly offering anything that dynamic , most likely the best fit .
Navale promising but looks like a way to go yet .
So many options tried and starting there in recent seasons , Jake , Alioia , Tent , Keppie , Woods and in recent times , Brown and Jazz
Still have a notion that Talau could go all right there , has that knack of finding his way or getting through fairly concentrated mid field defences and probably still has that more aggressive tendency aiming up in defence .
Anyway , looks like Jazz the best option there in the short term