Garrick

[ALinda]

Reubs had 134m today with 45m post contact, 3 tackle breaks, 2 line breaks and 2 tries including a fantastic winger’s try… also came up with a couple of good defensive reads that stopped vermin momentum…

Who would have thought his best position was on the wing? Oh wait, literally EVERYONE except Reuben and the coaches… Manly’s own Lomax…

Hopefully his last two outings have forever put to bed the nonsense idea that he is a centre.

Exactly my thoughts and certainly Manly's Lomax. Wish he'd suck it up and stay in his rightful (best) position.

 

[HoldenV8]

Exactly my thoughts and certainly Manly's Lomax. Wish he'd suck it up and stay in his rightful (best) position.

No one has said as much, but I have always wondered if the move to centre by both Garrick and Lomax was more money motivated than anything??

Wingers don't get paid squat really. Alex Johnston at Souths is likely to break Ken Irvine's try record sometime this season or early next year, and he'd be getting nowhere near the same money that Lewis Dodd is getting to play halfback in NSW Cup at Souths.

Contracts for centres, especially the better ones, are usually a bit more than what wingers get. And don't get me wrong, I can't blame someone like Reubs for wanting to be a centre and get that much more. But sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and accept that you're much better suited to the outside, which IMO both Reuben Garrick and Zac Lomax are.

 

[Ron E. Gibbs]

No one has said as much, but I have always wondered if the move to centre by both Garrick and Lomax was more money motivated than anything??

Wingers don't get paid squat really. Alex Johnston at Souths is likely to break Ken Irvine's try record sometime this season or early next year, and he'd be getting nowhere near the same money that Lewis Dodd is getting to play halfback in NSW Cup at Souths.

Contracts for centres, especially the better ones, are usually a bit more than what wingers get. And don't get me wrong, I can't blame someone like Reubs for wanting to be a centre and get that much more. But sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and accept that you're much better suited to the outside, which IMO both Reuben Garrick and Zac Lomax are.

I don't know that it's as simple as wingers getting less money than centres anymore. Lomax certainly isn't getting paid less money at the Eels than he was at the Dragons, and he's still playing on the wing there.

Wingers used to be treated as something of a joke - the fast blokes who got to hang around real football players. But the role of a winger has changed so much, and they are much more important to a team than they used to be. Look at someone like Brian To'o, who makes the yardage of a forward, is safe under the highball, and also an amazing finisher. Even Josh Addo-Carr in his heyday was a hugely influential player.

And centres are often used like an extra edge forward, which is why so many young players coming through get shuffled between centre and second row.

What was my point again? Oh, yeah - a good winger is probably worth more than an average centre these days. So maybe the stigma of being "just a winger" no longer holds.

 

[HoldenV8]

I don't know that it's as simple as wingers getting less money than centres anymore. Lomax certainly isn't getting paid less money at the Eels than he was at the Dragons, and he's still playing on the wing there.

Wingers used to be treated as something of a joke - the fast blokes who got to hang around real football players. But the role of a winger has changed so much, and they are much more important to a team than they used to be. Look at someone like Brian To'o, who makes the yardage of a forward, is safe under the highball, and also an amazing finisher. Even Josh Addo-Carr in his heyday was a hugely influential player.

And centres are often used like an extra edge forward, which is why so many young players coming through get shuffled between centre and second row.

What was my point again? Oh, yeah - a good winger is probably worth more than an average centre these days. So maybe the stigma of being "just a winger" no longer holds.

Lomax was signed by the Worms as a centre. All last year it was how he was going to Parramatta to play centre because that's not where Flanagan wanted to play him. That he's now found himself on the wing shows that even a rookie head coach (though a fairly experienced assistant coach) like Ryles can see that he's a better winger than he is a centre.

Its the same with Garrick. He's OK at centre, but he's much better on the wing. The sooner he accepts it the happier he might be.

As for the part about wingers ... I totally agree.

 

[ALinda]

No one has said as much, but I have always wondered if the move to centre by both Garrick and Lomax was more money motivated than anything??

It's always about the mighty $, isn't it

sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and accept that you're much better suited to the outside, which IMO both Reuben Garrick and Zac Lomax are.

The sooner Reuben bites the bullet the better.