Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

On another tangent, Roosters are about to sign Jack Bostock to replace Tupou and eventually Teddy. He's good enough to have that option to eventually play fullback at the premiers and the Roosters are always getting whoever they want. What a luxury, one we'll never have.
 
tigerballs said:
On another tangent, Roosters are about to sign Jack Bostock to replace Tupou and eventually Teddy. He's good enough to have that option to eventually play fullback at the premiers and the Roosters are always getting whoever they want. What a luxury, one we'll never have.
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What happened to Herbie?
 
WTTOM said:
ok but if people want to go on about it then they can at least have a proper conversation about it rather than going on about howmy opinion is different to yours so your an idiot type shit.
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Yeah fair enough. It’s been talked about a lot already but perhaps you missed it.

Adam’s strength is his running game, yet he doesn’t run straight. He either makes a break or causes his backs to get gang tackled by sliding defenders.

These moments confuse fans because sometimes he cracks the defence and looks like a super star. You will see it most when our forwards are dominating or after offloads. His running game shines.

Adam’s weakness is his passing game. Adam doesn’t have the ability to break down a defence. He doesn’t setup runners, he doesn’t have soft hands, his cut out passes are far to often a disaster. He doesn’t engage the inside defender because he doesn’t straighten. As such he doesn’t make other players around him shine. Go look at the stats of his winger when he was a centre, same principle.

Excluding his dummy spit I actually value him. He has been loyal despite our club being a HBG portaloo.

All that said, he just doesn’t have the tool kit to be the dominant half in a game where our pack is 50/50 with the other team or our offloads aren’t creating ruck speed. Ruck speed matters so much for Adam becuase of how he runs on such a sideways angle. Fast ruck and the inside defenders are less likely to be sliding/covering cleanly. Here is where his running game shines. Most games, this doesn’t happen. You see this most obviously in the attacking 20m. Organised defensive line and Adam has no answer, except some brilliant solo runs.
 
Mccarry said:
Yeah fair enough. It’s been talked about a lot already but perhaps you missed it.

Adam’s strength is his running game, yet he doesn’t run straight. He either makes a break or causes his backs to get gang tackled by sliding defenders.

These moments confuse fans because sometimes he cracks the defence and looks like a super star. You will see it most when our forwards are dominating or after offloads. His running game shines.

Adam’s weakness is his passing game. Adam doesn’t have the ability to break down a defence. He doesn’t setup runners, he doesn’t have soft hands, his cut out passes are far to often a disaster. He doesn’t engage the inside defender because he doesn’t straighten. As such he doesn’t make other players around him shine. Go look at the stats of his winger when he was a centre, same principle.

Excluding his dummy spit I actually value him. He has been loyal despite our club being a HBG portaloo.

All that said, he just doesn’t have the tool kit to be the dominant half in a game where our pack is 50/50 with the other team or our offloads aren’t creating ruck speed. Ruck speed matters so much for Adam becuase of how he runs on such a sideways angle. Fast ruck and the inside defenders are less likely to be sliding/covering cleanly. Here is where his running game shines. Most games, this doesn’t happen. You see this most obviously in the attacking 20m. Organised defensive line and Adam has no answer, except some brilliant solo runs.
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Ok and my whole point was that he was our best half this year. So what do you think?
 
tigerballs said:
On another tangent, Roosters are about to sign Jack Bostock to replace Tupou and eventually Teddy. He's good enough to have that option to eventually play fullback at the premiers and the Roosters are always getting whoever they want. What a luxury, one we'll never have.
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I thought Bostock was going home to Illawarra.
 
GNR4LIFE said:
Any decent halfback only has to look how Luai turned out. If he has a strong year at Parra, it will make us look even worse. Fogarty is the most realistic option available. At the back end of his career which is pretty typical. But I’ll take a placeholder like him before I throw the keys to kid who has only played one game.
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Luai was never a 7 and never a decent halfback. Has always been a 6. It was another failed experiment. He will be play 6 at parra next to moses, so its not really comparable. I can see moses's gsme enabling luai to play better footy than he did here though.
 
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