33 Offloads is pretty damn good.Brown's offloads are a myth - in his last full season being 2021 he had 18. Joe O last year had 33. Tackle Breaks and PCM - Brown 20 and 940 Joe O 57 and 1171. Tackles made - NB 745 at 92% efficiency. JO 882 at 93%. The only area where Brown outperformed JO was in running mtrs where he averaged an 129 pg to JO 122 pg. He is almost an identical player to Offo. I really don't see the value when we already have a similar player. Also given his form last year where he was our best forward Joe O needs to be on the field more often than not so put him on the bench would be a waste.
Joe O, out of everyone last year. You, Naden and Hastings are the players who did this jersey proud.
BTW I see full value in getting another player like Joe O. Our mistakes have been relying too heavily on James Tamou alone, I realise Russell Packer wasn't meant to be a one man forward pack but again we relied too heavily on him and Packer underperformed...
Front row Needs depth. The more the better.