The Telecrap is reporting that a source in the club is saying that Morts will play for Wenty on Sunday and that Shack is a strong chance to be playing Sunday as well. If not this Sunday next week.
I've maintained for months that Parramatta was doing Daniel Mortimer no benefit by continuing to plan him at seven, while he was struggling for form. Unfortunately, all it's done is set him up for this and given journalists the chance to use a line like "spectacular fall" now that we've finally had to bite the bullet.
You go back and while the Keating/Mortimer combination wasn't working - we clearly pulled the wrong rein. Had we moved Morts back to 14 at that point and combined Robson and Keating, I think we would not be on the ladder where we were, and Dan would have had the chance to get some confidence back up playing in a low pressure position that I believe would have suited him well.
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Best of luck to him.
You go back and while the Keating/Mortimer combination wasn't working - we clearly pulled the wrong rein. Had we moved Morts back to 14 at that point and combined Robson and Keating, I think we would not be on the ladder where we were, and Dan would have had the chance to get some confidence back up playing in a low pressure position that I believe would have suited him well.