They have fullbacks in Dugan, Holmes, Moylan and are after Johnston.
Dragons want Hayne. They want that impact on the wing….
Also no one remembers their history 2009 Hayne ran through the Dragons to knock them out. I can remember him running through 7 defenders to score a try. So the Dragons will be interested and if they add Hayne then their season will probably improve.
I can see Johnson replacing Holmes. Man Cronulla have deep checkbooks.
a few of my m8's who r dragon supporters disagree, they don't want Hayne. As for Johnson that is a possibility but i'm not sure where holmes will go?, we will welcome him, we need a speedster and a player of his caliber
Speed is good. But we need a good back, someone who can play, who can set up plays and help defend the back line.
People like Hazem El Mazri, Brett Hodgson, Luke Burt, (totally showing my age) etc are very underrated.
Thompson is probably the closest we have to such a player. He is not enough and our backline needs stability (were about 1 solid center off stability).
We get speedsters, they get speedsters, it's just a race to the fastest and it's not intelligent. Where we can win is where our backline can gel together and give our speedsters a chance , i.e. the Center drawing the opposite winger in with a dummy, people moving to create an overlap, etc.
Pat Richards, Jamie Lyon and SKD(3 years ago) were really good at working out how they as wingers could get their centers across the line. I love that line from Michael Jennings "hey Semi may be giving me good ball", I.e. my job as a center is not to just pass to the winger and have him outrun the opposition. My job is to partner with my wing and create gaps to help our team score tries.
