batleyrhino:christopher:
Really not sure where this trope of Newman not performing is coming from to be honest.
How many tries has he scored or created this season? What’s his average run meters and gain? What’s his average tackle count and misses? What’s his penalty and error count? He’s not having the impact that his alleged marquee salary would suggest he should be having. If he doesn’t improve, significantly, we should be looking to do better.
It's a tough one. On one hand he's home grown and one of the most exciting players we have produced in the post golden era. On the other hand the injuries do look to have robbed him of most of his pace and agility. I'm sure some would point out that he's the current England centre, but realistically he'd be doing very well to push ahead of Wardle and Handley (Farnworth has the other spot wrapped up) for an Ashes spot. Bottom line is there is a very shallow pool of English centres in SL and Harry is probably as good as we can do at the moment without using a quota spot. ECW is the joker in the pack though. The club have acknowledged that he is the fastest player on our books and to my mind real pace in the backs is the thing we are missing. Seems like it would be a real shame to bring him over here and not find out what he can offer now he is fit. If he can put together a run in the reserves Newman/Lumb could be under pressure.
