He didn't do to well this year when he was injured and that was really his big chance to step up. I think the club and fans have basically judged that he obviously isn't the answer and need to continue looking for alternative options.
In what world could he emulate Tapine. He has zero attack. Tapine has always been a weapon in attack. Riki is lucky to make 6 hitups a game for 50 metres.
He’s gone unless we can find $500k minimum for him. He’ll get better offers than that for sure
That's one of our problems though, that our only point of attack is shifting ball wide and why Walsh was heavily targeted this year and why we struggled when Sailor came in and couldn't do what Walsh does.
Don’t mind power game if everyone is pushing up supporting each other, ready for offloads looking eager to play.
I completely agree with Riki being a bench middle. He always looked a bit sus on an edge and captained NZ from the middle in the under 20s I’m pretty sure.
Big part of a power game would also be metre eating back 5, which we were not this year.
This was a trend teams were doing this year... with the reintroduction of the downtown rule (although rarely sighted since the early rounds and trials) teams were running their fullback before last because they were one of the only players not chasing the kick so they were no chance of getting pinged for heading downtown too early.
Oh yeah I get the premise of it, and it works for some teams and players. Edwards especially. But Sailor limped into the line sideways
On this, Patty's passing seem to start the "must score at all cost" plays we attempt. He needs to tuck the ball and take the hard runs more often.
