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Eisenhuth has more skills..not a plodder..
If he has more skills he should showcase them. No point keeping them in your back pocket.
My definition of plodder is a predictable forward who is slow, makes little yards and sets nothing up. If he can't tackle, he is the worst kind of plodder.
I think that as a forward in the modern game you can't just be a hard runner, you have to have a good offload. Without the threat of an offload you are predictable and one-dimensional. A plodder.
Look at Woods; he was never such a hard runner (he often backed into tackles), but that offload made him dangerous. He might have been soft at times, but couldn't be called a plodder really.
Exception to the rule are really explosive, hard to contain, front rowers that don't necessarily need an offload, like Taumololo, Boyd, Papalii, Bromwich, Waerea-Hargreaves, Packer, Scott. But, I don't think that even they can't get away with being too one-dimensional.
Some forwards are great offloaders **and** runners: Fifita, Burgess, Taupau (in spurts), Matulino, Gallen (he used to be anyway). These guys are special.
Eisenhuth isn't a hard runner and very rarely offloads.
Plod city. Population Eisenhuth.
That's not to say it can't be turned around. Gallen became a better forward. So did Tamou, Bromwich, Civonoceva, Sironen, Beetson. Heaps. Just run harder and develop your offload.
I'm a bit harsh on Huth, but I hope he turns it around and becomes the player many on here think he can be.
