Still one of,if not,the fittest player at the club and good enough to play Origin.Until there’s a ready made replacement,why does he need to go?
I agree on his fitness and imagine this will be his last Origin campaign in any case, young Walker is the incumbent for mine, had the chooks been travelling well he might of even got a look in this year, or at worst at 14, still might.
Also I never said he should go, in fact I agree with you until we have a better option, I can’t see why he should go. (which is sad actually)
Thing is, at 35 his best is well gone and while ever he remains at 7, how do we build towards our future, it’s not as if his going to improve or improve our side, his eating up big cap space, had 13 seasons in grade with 2 more to come, well have a 37 year old half, can’t imagine it will be good. Our spine is in a mess, likewise our middles and…….enough.
Souths are a prime example of good management, Ilias over Reyno, (young Katoa for the fins is also killing it, youth) they made the hard decision (yes I know how it transpired) and they are reaping the rewards, building nicely, recruiting nicely, while we continue with little to no upside and recruit like a drunken sailor, it’s very frustrating watching our great club in free fall. Hopefully we’ll have a rather large purge at seasons end and start looking to the future, it kind of hurts that we extended several of the current squad and can’t have a full purge, think we have 11 of contract seasons end, can’t come quick enough, except I miss the footy when the seasons done.