vastman wrote:
But that's 2020 and it will be 2023 if/when he plays for Warrington and pushing 30. Also in 2020, there wasn't much competition for MOM was there with half a team missing but I grant you he played well, mainly at prop
I don’t disagree that we are talking almost 2 years ago since he was in any kind of form which is why I think it’s worth exploring options with him if we aren’t going to use him properly.
It’s either my memory or yours failing but I’m 99% sure his string of good performances were in left second row end of 2020 for a long string of games when Ashurst was out long term injured. This is the period he got in dream team at SR not at prop.
I think he mainly started playing prop exclusively in 2021 when Ashurst was back to fitness. I certainly recall him being very good at SR then bang average at prop ever since he was moved there to this day.
We would have had a real player on our hands if he’d stayed at SR but I think it’s too far gone now. The reality is that we took a dream team standard second rower and gambled trying to turn him into a prop and have ended up ruining him to the point he’s looking average. The answer is simple, get him back to left SR where he’s effective or look to see if there’s interested parties. He’s not a prop, he’s filling in at prop. I se to recall it only being temporary and Chester saying as much because there were no props available.
It’s a real shame but I put his current form squarely at the feet of the coaching team.