I'd just like to start by saying that i have watched our trial game vs Penrith 4 times now & i am absolutely dumbfounded by some of the comments i have seen on here around Beau Scott. I will acknowledge he dropped the ball a few times, in a trial game, which is to be expected.
I hate to be critical of some people on here, but it's like i'm watching a completely different game to some of you? Beau hit hard, stiffened up our edge, did a lot of the clean up work around the ruck when he moved to the middle and was a real key figure in the way we slowed down the ruck for big parts of the game. He made some damaging runs and really led by example.
I will go as far as to say that from all our new recruits, he showed he just might be the most influential in terms of impact to the mentality and way we approach games.
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He puts fear into most opposition halfbacks, including Thurston.
He has a history of hunting out 5/8's. Will be a big asset to our team. However I think he is a very similar player to Manu Mau, don't know if its wise to have two backrowers virtually identical in body shape and style. Could be wrong. Who's scarier lol Manu of Beau
Personally i think it's great having one on each side, as if you're the opposition, you really have nowhere to hide! How good was it seeing James Segeyaro crap his pants when he realised the guy he pushed was Manu & then nervously giggled to the ref saying "i didn't realise who it was" after he escaped a mauling.
I really liked the balance of our starting back row the other night with Scott and Ma'u on the edges and Tepai with his big motor getting through some solid work in the middle.
The nuffies on here knocking him have no idea about the game. Scott wasn't brought here for attack so much, its other areas in his game that our pack lacked is why BA said yes to him. Scott is a professional and will be an astute signing.
Absolutely agree. Our right edge defence looks fantastic with him next to foran.
It sends a message, run at our halfback and see what will happen. I didn't think he played bad at all.
They are the steel that our forward pack needs. Kenny too is good. Injury free and we will go well. We will get injuries, but the key guys need to stay on paddock. Cows would not have got near finals if JT was gone.
He was often looking for an offload too and it appeared more when we were in the attacking 20. If he's able to hold up even just 2 defenders then get an offload away, with our ability to attack both sides of the field at a high level that could mean more points.
His worst moment in the game was dropping it cold when he looked up at the defence, if he holds onto that ball we had about half a set to go on attack.
Agree Ham. He was looking to offload only inside the attacking 20. Outside of that he was belting it up. As part of the team learning to gel, someone is going to wake up soon that if they follow Scott through the ruck in the attacking 20 they are going to receive some great second phase play off him. (Like Geoff Gerard and Ron Hilditch) Someone needs to follow him like a shearers dog. I think this will eventually become a feature of our attack up the middle to compliment our attack out wide and come to think of it, this year we have attack all over the field as well as great defence in every position. I don't think we are going to lose many games.
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