Jackson Hastings #251

[diedpretty]

The best sentence in the whole nonsense story :

"Sheens did not respond when asked for comment about the reasons for Hastings’ exit."

 

[Tim Sheens]

An article that basically said nothing.

Good luck at Newcastle Jackson.

 

[innsaneink]

Why isn't this merged and buried in the Hastings thread?
Really doesn't deserve any comment just more shit from weidler... Don't feed that slug

 

[Winston Churchill]

It'll be interesting how Hastings gets on in Newcastle, Big fish ego in a one team town fishbowl. The Novacastrians will ether love him or hate him immediately. Might be with another club come 2024 with this guys track record.

 

[Jedi_Tiger]

Cue all the Brooks fan boys looking for any form of vindication....🤣🤣🤣

Newcastle knights and Hastings supporters ... that way

 

[Spartan117]

I don't think Brooks will suddenly change and Mitch isn't coming back.

I'm a Hastings fan, however the club has made a decision.

 

[bathursttiger1]

Why isn't this merged and buried in the Hastings thread?
Really doesn't deserve any comment just more shit from weidler... Don't feed that slug

Oh Ink you have a way with words.😂

 

[sleeve]

Hastings never made the leadership group?
Seems odd, considering most posters here thought he was the leader we needed?
I think he’ll kill it at Knights and probably play his best against us 😜

The Ponga dynasty and the strong willed Hastings, will cause problems. Like with us, he was a Bandaid job here, they will realise the same. 2024 in the forwards.

 

[ATown]

Hastings is slow as a wet week and just isn’t threatening at all. 3 tries in 63 NRL games says it all.

Another thing that doesn’t get mentioned enough…his kicking game is garbage. He has no long kicking game and his bombs are never high enough for us to contest.

IMO he has too many deficiencies to be a quality NRL halfback.

I did really like him at 13 though. That’s his future and hopefully for his sake he’ll swallow his pride soon and embrace it.

 

[happy_tiger]

Hastings is slow as a wet week and just isn’t threatening at all. 3 tries in 63 NRL games says it all.

Another thing that doesn’t get mentioned enough…his kicking game is garbage. He has no long kicking game and his bombs are never high enough for us to contest.

IMO he has too many deficiencies to be a quality NRL halfback.

I did really like him at 13 though. That’s his future and hopefully for his sake he’ll swallow his pride soon and embrace it.

Let him be the Knights problem @ 7 for the immediate future

 

[sleeve]

Brooks has rarely played behind a decent pack....2023 will be different

Agree , Hastings and Douehi were never going to consistently break the line, and if they did, they were not going to go far ! I'm sure most of the sides would have had Brooks as the most dangerous in the side, and therefor the defence had a target on him most of the game. Certainly our fullback, and hooker were also of minimum threat. Plus a weak forward pack ,and the slowest backline in history. He will have to stand up this year,as they all will, or it's close the door on the way out .

 

[WesternSuburbsBoy]

Agree , Hastings and Douehi were never going to consistently break the line, and if they did, they were not going to go far ! I'm sure most of the sides would have had Brooks as the most dangerous in the side, and therefor the defence had a target on him most of the game. Certainly our fullback, and hooker were also of minimum threat. Plus a weak forward pack ,and the slowest backline in history. He will have to stand up this year,as they all will, or it's close the door on the way out .

AD is one of our only players who threatens to consistently break the line…. Hastings I agree with but how many tries has AD scored by busting the line.

 

[earl]

Why isn't this merged and buried in the Hastings thread?
Really doesn't deserve any comment just more shit from weidler... Don't feed that slug

I tried. The Hastings thread was closed.

 

[earl]

Another thing that doesn’t get mentioned enough…his kicking game is garbage. He has no long kicking game and his bombs are never high enough for us to contest.

Brooks cops so much hate but he was clearly and it wasn't close our best kicker. Doueihi has a great bomb but he kicks on the first more than Brooks. Hastings didn't have a long kicking game at all last season. Hastings can put in a good short kick but Brooks does that as well.

 

[jirskyr]

The article says almost nothing at all, so much for explaining the reasons you twit.

Any time I read a Dunny Weedler piece I criticise myself for not remembering that he basically writes gossip trash and why I should ever expect anything useful or balanced from such a rubbish person.

 

[earl]

AD is one of our only players who threatens to consistently break the line…. Hastings I agree with but how many tries has AD scored by busting the line.

AD is the best in our team at busting the line. It's the rest of his game that needs work.

 

[Coastie_Tiger]

Danny must be really struggling for content if that is all he's got to write about, an absolute beat up nothing article if ever there was one.

 

[Madge]

Interesting to think what the need for Hastings is to post rehab videos to social media.

Why is it an issue? The article is nitpicking. It’s a nothing article. It’s simple. Hastings wanted to play halfback and wanted a big pay cheque. He wasn’t going to get that here.

 

[TillLindemann]

Interesting to think what the need for Hastings is to post rehab videos to social media.

I don't get what the issue with that is. More interesting for fans than the 'love me plz' and 'I'm totes a gangsta' selfies we get posted by our other players.

 

[gallagher]

Why is it an issue? The article is nitpicking. It’s a nothing article. It’s simple. Hastings wanted to play halfback and wanted a big pay cheque. He wasn’t going to get that here.

Correct, another guy had already been given that position