@magpiecol said:
No he is not. His defence is getting worse as well. Out of the side or into the lock position.
I said in another forum, that we need another centre and another winger. Maybe even two centres. There is no guarantee that Lawrence will ever return. Remember Mr T?
That young winger/fullback from the Warriors would be ideal for a start. I am not sure about anyone else who may be available. Reddy from the Eels is also on the outer with his club. Not sure about him though.
Any thoughts? With Blair coming we have abundant forwards but we do need some speedy backs and a fully fit fullback.
Our outside backs have been shown up for how really good they are with Lawrence out of the side. Nothing against Ayshford, his a solid player, but I think alot of people got overexcited by him at the end of last season (People calling him as an origin contender??? what the…).
Our attack has always been left side dominant. The amount of tries and breaks scored down the left has always been significantly higher on the left. Yet people still thought Ayshford was this world breaking centre.
Now without Lawrence in the side, we go left and we look garbage, we go right and we look garbage. Noone in our outside backs looks threatening at all. Utai is good for metres at least. But Brown is no more than a very solid player who does little things right (defends, takes bomb, positions himself well), but he is not a threatening player. Blake Ayshford is the same thing. He generally defends well, but theres no flare about him. I like him, and would try him elsewhere but long term I dont see him there. We need a centre who can run at the line at a bit of pace and look threatening. Maybe a long shot, but with Tuquiri fit I would consider him there, a big hard runner and it would see him getting more ball.
Even with Lawrence back, we need another centre, another outside back. It was very costly towards the end of the season. Dont get me wrong, Ayshford did a job, but come that semi final we were again very reliant on one side of the field. If you have options either side it really changes the whole dynamic of the side.
At the moment, we have nothing whatever side we go and are just relying on Benji/Robbie to pull somthing out etc.