The real value of Jackson Hastings
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BAGNF05
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With him they win 25%. Were clutching at straws now 🤣
… and without?
Clearly needs help but he’s the one to build around.
Build around? What position will he play? Build a team around a player who doesn't have a position. So Tigers
Muffstar
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He controls the team. We are rudderless without him, absolutely no direction.
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He's critical to the team, whether he plays 7, 6 or 13.
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I think he could be part of the solution if he wants to be here. Has a lower win % here than Brooks though, FWIW.
Lets forget one player being the hero everything is built around. It's Wests Tigers, not a Marvel movie. Hastings isn't Munster, but he can steer a team around the park and (unlike Moses) take a bruise if the support play isn't on. part of an eco system that includes Douhei as a strike player, and api at half getting runners over the ad line plus a few tricks up his sleeve. Really need a meter eater in the middle to bolster stocks there. That's a team that is a fighting chance to win games. Not a rudderless assembly given corporate sport talking points to sprout over the off season. Sign him.
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Hastings the key amidst Wests Tigers worries
The Wests Tigers are statistically a different side when the utility takes the field.
Jack Blyth
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It doesn't matter if it's a cabinet, a scrapbook or a rugby league side, the second you lose the glue from something, it begins falling apart.
It's certainly been the case for the Wests Tigers following Jackson Hastings' broken leg, with the club now appearing destined for rugby league's most maligned award - the wooden spoon.
Hastings has been a breath of fresh air for a club known for its lack of professional standards and holding themselves accountable, the former Man of Steel recipient has owned his mistakes and his past from day dot.
However, their record without the half-turned-lock is borderline diabolical.
When Hastings plays this year, the Tigers win 25% of their games, four from 16 attempts, and lose by an average of nine points. They concede 26 points per game with him in their line-up, though they do manage to score 17 of their own.
The move to lock improved the team even more so, losing by two points to Penrith, a controversial one-point defeat to North Queensland as well as a 14 point victory over Brisbane at Suncorp Stadium, which would prove to be Hastings' final game in 2022.
However, without the former Rooster and Sea Eagle in their side, they don't win. At all. Wests Tigers are zero-from-six when Hastings watches from the sideline, and their loss margin widens even more.
While they let in an extra three points per match, it's their attack that really struggles, scoring under eight points a game without Hastings. Ten less points per game takes their average loss margin to 22 points without the utility half.
He literally makes the Wests Tigers a 12-point better side, and that's just his on-field influence.
He paid his own way to watch the Tigers play on the Gold Coast early in the season whilst sidelined, a glaring comparison to Newcastle captain Kalyn Ponga and the cubicle saga that's currently dominating headlines.
Rumoured to be on the outer after Tim Sheens once again declared his support for Luke Brooks, Hastings is a figure the Tigers simply can't afford to lose. Not for his kicking game, or his level-headed approach each match, but for the standards he brings to the club on and off the park.
Couple him with the premiership-winning experience of Api Koroisau and the work ethic of Isaiah Papali'i, and suddenly the Concord club are building a team on something other than potential.
If the Wests Tigers are to escape the dark cellar any time soon, it'll be Hastings holding the flashlight, leading the way out.
hobbo1
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Hastings conducts the shit show
He points to where the nuffies need to run
He points to where the nuffies need to run
You may be waiting for a long time….JH is just as disillusioned about the club as we are
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Boy I hope he’s pointing to the exit
I can't blame him as he has seen how unprofessionable our board and management are.
For Brooks?
Seriously? 🤣
Brooks is a disaster now.
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I didnt see him out there when we copped 72, still all his fault? 😂
GarryOwen
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Seems he's of sound mind.
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I think Hastings should be a priority re-signing and at half not lock, however I get the feel, publicly at least, that the club is not giving much overall 'love' / 'appreciation' his way compared to public utterances towards Brooks. Unless we are very careful we will loose Hastings. I also agree now following the last couple of weeks that he needs a fast 6 outside him. Doueihi just isnt that, I think Doueihi will have to accept centre position. If Brooks is going and cant play 6 I'd consider shifting Laurie to 6 and getting a bigger body fullback.
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