Someone from the Parramatta Recruitment Team please explain why they let James Maloney walk..
How we could be going if we kept him... His passing game is solid, kicks well, runs well in general play, kicks goals and can read the game.
Well done EELS recruitment...
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What I believe more than ever, and I've been saying this for a while now, is that you need pace and/or strength in your halves. If you don't have a half who can threaten the line with pace and acceleration or with strength at six, you can't broach modern day NRL defences.
Teams slide so well and they know that if you don't have a running half, then you can slide early and your outside backs get no space. As I said in that other thread, you watch the space Tom Humble has created in the past couple of weeks and it's because opposition sides know that if you overread the outside men, he's capable of cutting through you. Kris is capable of doing the same closer to the ruck. It's why Thurston is always so dangerous because you have to mark up on him or he'll show and go. Neither Morts or Robbo are fast enough to bust the line themselves so the opposition can slide with confidence.
Like NZ have done with Maloney though, you have to persist with these kinds of players for a while because they aren't your traditional playmakers. But I'd much rather take a dangerous attacking player like Humble, KK or Maloney and try and teach them to run your plays, than take a traditional half who you can never teach to take on the line.
Until we get a half that can do that, we will not score enough points to win games. Our kicking game is an embarrassment