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      • The other problem is he is our best defensive forward by a hundred yards (he is the missing ingredient this year to last year with our defensive patterns) so it makes it hard to be a ball playing lock and our best defensive player....btw I agree Lock is his natural position....the other thing to take into account is when switched to the front row last year, he really came good and met that defensive upgrade we re/acquired. Can we find another Hoppy to go with the original?

        • We are missing his defence a lot as you have said. Him and Smith together used to clean up a lot of tackles last year 

      • Hopgood should be our 13, he can ball play similar to Yeo. But we have some ass forwards and second rowers that mader it hard for him to really transfer that ball across to Moses.

      • Hopgood's issue was his timing. When to offload and when to run. By the time Ryles dropped him from Lock to Prop he was just throwing needless offloads when not on. If he can get that timing right he can be an Origin quality player again. He is 28 next year, time is on his side to have a comeback year.

  • Dylan walker has been good for us but prob only has a year or 2 left so has to take money on offer now.  He hasn't been as good this year so probably realises waiting till his contract is up may be too late to get decent money in England..

    Not sure what we have coming through but Kurt Donohue is a competitor who can play hooker, 5/8 or lock so would be great replacement for Walker and probably get more game time at parra. 

    There are better players around but we can't attract them so need to look at who is being underutilised.

    Dolphins have players like Plath playing origin who will want contract upgrades.  They also have players like Farnworth, Hammer, Flegler, Finefeuiaki, Lemuelu, Bostock, Cobbo only signed up to 2027 who will need new contracts so can see the dolphins as a club who may release some established players to free up cap space.

     

     

    • Donohue is a good shout out. I think they bought Edwards to be a mitch kenny type. Donohue hits hard for a little fella.

      • Yep that is a great shout. He is behind JMK and Plath at the 9 and 13 spot. Would be a great player to replace Walker. He would literally be a cheaper version of C Watson. Can covoer 1/6/9/13

        • Thing about Donaghoe at the moment is he is a tweener. Not 100% sure what his best position is. He has played the positions you mentioned but doesn't really excel in any. That is perfect for us as his role is simply that link man and mr.fix it. Dolphins have him in and out everywhere. We will use him every week.

      • Edwards i would say is more a Lock than a Hooker but yeah he is more a tackle machine that can play Hooker if really needed. Nice 18th man option.

    • Love the Donoghue shout out. Perfect player for that role. But you are right, we need to get younger and more versitile.

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