I'm convinced he is a very good player in a very good team. I'm also convinced it is hard to look a very good player in a poor team. Lets be honest he is not going to get the platform from our forwards to do his stuff.
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Speed2burn
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yeah I don’t think it’ll be enough to get us out of this rut but it’s a start …
Penrith didn’t really start their dominance until he arrived just saying
finnzo
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I’m still in shock that he will actually be wearing a tigers jersey next year. players this good don’t normally wear a tigers jerseys
Don Kershane
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Hope our forwards can keep up when he takes off from dummy half . Off season sprint training please.
twentyforty
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I think the essential ingredient to Api’s success is that he and Yeo and Cleary are singing from the same hymn book. They form such a great combination, that replicating the same at a different club will be a challenge, but if we have Hastings and Brooks, we’re halfway there.
earl
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I hope you are right. I don't know if the Brooks comment will go down well.
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Win another premiership Api then hurry up and help us. 🙂
Kaito
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Kaito
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Needed someone as astute as
Yourself Cobar. Not to replace
The late great Geo but 2 uphold
The excellence my guy. Thanks
Appreciate your work I've noticed
Cobar,without putting a dampener on Api coming here next season....just remember the system he is coming from and the system he is going to play in are worlds apart...
I hope he is everything we expect and more,however,Blair comes to mind,brilliant in a brilliant system and a flop in ours...lets stay positive and see what eventuates....
Great post @Kaito
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I'm hearing you but Blair and Api are totally two different animals. A first class hooker like Api will get the forwards running. Put it this way, if we don't succeed it will not be his doing. The reason I don't want Jacko to go is because he will compliment Api's willpower to get the job done.
Totally agree mate...Hastings is a breath of fresh air for this club and is a versatile player especially when the pressure is on...If he and Api as well as Papi and some others gel in the off season I think we will be the biggest surprise packet of the off season..Just my opinion Cobar,and having played the game for a number of years in my younger days,the one thing I learnt was that it takes HARD work to get a team to PLAY AS A TEAM...that will be Sheens toughest job to start with...
weststigers
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Fair concern, but I would say at hooker, he offers us unpredictability at dummy half which may very well help our forwards get over the advantage line.
You can see he is always faking right, then passing left and vice versa which gives Penrith an extra moment with the opposition defender wrong footed.
I think he’ll help immensely, but to your point, it’s all theories until we see the team in action. Hoping for the best.
earl
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You got to wait and see what happens. I thought this season Hastings and Doueihi were going to own the halves and we would outperform and push for the 8.
Now I'm not even sure what you do with Doueihi.
aturkey
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Doueihi was out for majority of the year lol
weststigers
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Yeah too many halves and not enough spots.
I sound like a broken record, but Doueihi increases his positional versatility significantly if he learns how to defend. I’m not sure he wants to be versatile though…seems keen on playing 5/8.
I just can’t see a scenario where we keep Hastings, Brooks and Doueihi at the club.
426Tlgerland
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AD. 6
Brooks 7
Api. 9
Hastings 13
Brooks 7
Api. 9
Hastings 13
