Dean Hawkins has an outstanding kicking game for a 4 game rookie. I would be getting him across quickly of Madden leaves. Perfect back up half and may just be a genuine first grader of the future. His passing game looks better the Ilias as well.
Best thing Madden did last week was that massive 40/20, it went up so high O thought it was another crap mod field bomb.
Was such a surprise to see a kick like that from one of ours. For mine he is lacking something still, but it would be good to have a proper kicking game and a half with potential so I don't mind your idea at all.
Honestly I know Benji and Sheens will want to play touch footy, but Doueihi doesn't pass short and seems to only realise he's playing in the 41st minute,
Hastings has ticker but looks as agile as an excavator trying to catch a chicken and Brooks looks like the chicken, sans head. Our best bet is one or two explosive forwards with the Ute, with Api getting them over the advantage line, supplemented by the solid workers we already have in Offa and Twal, with a solid spine. A stronger long kicking game would support this.
I feel like the expansive game we are trying to play doesn't suit our spines natural strengths, which are run, run, run with the odd torpedo bomb. We also lack the speed we need to go the length, and in our glory days we went the length at will, and if anything struggled inside the 20.
I feel a bit of hope because I think we are weeding out the soft tankers behind the scenes, but in general I'm still at the bottom of the curve regarding our prospects.