OFFICIAL Jarome Luai - #295

[mtd#2]

The ones you named are fine.
Api and Benji have brought us a heap of failure and are buddy buddy with Luai. They are not objective.

They all have the same number of spoons.

 

[Tucker]

They all have the same number of spoons.

You are missing the point.

 

[mtd#2]

You are missing the point.

No, I get the point you are trying to make. But you're making assumptions that others arent close to Luai and that they'd be more objective.

Before Luai: 3 consecutive spoons
After Luai: 8 competition points and +80 differential clear of the spoon.

Is that all Luai? Obviously not.. has Luai played a part? Well if the CEO, Coach, Captain and one of the top performing players are saying so , it holds weight.

 

[The Chad]

We brought some handy players to the club other than Luai who have been pretty helpful. May, Turuva, Skelton and May have all been good to great.
Adam Doueihi took his chance.
Bula kept improving as did Twal and the Fainu triumvirate.
Toa has been great in spurts, especially at the start of the year.
Losing Galvin certainly helped as he stifles our play.
I’m not saying he hasn’t had some influence - of course he has. Well over a million dollars worth? Not for mine, let’s see what next year brings.

As always- I find myself agreeing with a lot of what you say.

Thing is with Luai, he is (likely) fairly responsible for the quality of the recruitment. Players want to play with good players. The May's for sure.

Is his PLAY worth $1m? Probably not. Is his effect worth $1m? I'd argue it is.

 

[watersider]

For all luai's adlib plays he rarely seems to make errors. I think that doesn't get much of a mention. Passing is always excellent and he usually sets up players around him well. Long kicking is accurate and short kicking is ridiculously good (why doesn't he do it more?). The only issue for luai is having more influence on the time, but I feel like he's become more dominant as the season's gone on. I think we underrate him. Yeah, not worth 1.2 mil, but we were always going to have to pay more and he's definitely a top tier half in the league.

 

[InBenjiWeTrust]

Have experts on this forum acquired the syndrome that "the grass is always greener elsewhere"? 🤔