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"NRL 360 are guessing and mainly said they reckon it makes more sense than Parramatta. Again nothing has said it's Galvin, not saying it isn't but nothing has led to it being Galvin, just purely guessing."
"Im not im against him for letting Gutherson and RCG go to of our best player last year"
"Why I don't think he will go to dogs is because his family seem to be fairly involved in his carear from what I read on tigers forum and Gus would have no bar of any interference as where we would enable it like the tigers "
"It makes way more sense that Dogs are after DCE. An experienced halfback which is their missing link to a premiership. "
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Even the most explosive players in the world, can't do anything without space. Don't we all remember how frustrating it was to have Tahu in the side, getting no room to move. Wasn't much different last year to Inu, truth be said.
The other thing is even if you decide you don't want your half to do much and except catch and pass, KK has the added facet of his game in that there is not a single player in the NRL who is a better support player than he is. He will be worth points every game on that facet alone.
Don't get me wrong though. I love Robson as much as the next bloke but if we want to win games easily through brilliant attack Kris Keating is the way to go.
However, there is one massive disadvantage we have by having Kris Keating out early on in the season. If he is injured early on, we're pretty much relying on Robson to jump in and we know Robson is no X factor. By having a quality player and unleashing him later on, can be useful element of surprise but Robson is no player like that. Kris Keating would be an awesome player to unleash when we have an injury.
But most importantly winning and securing a spot in the top 8 should be our goal in the early parts of the season. We must avoid all injuries and make sure our halves will perform at a required standard when it gets to finals time especially the GF and won't falter under pressure.
Robson is an ideal back-up half, he has proven he can come into the team without disrupting our attcking style, and is defensively sound. However the bloke is AVERAGE, he has been average his whole career, you don't play 8 seasons of reserve grade if your a first grader. There is no way he would be starting 7 at any other club in the competition, he might hack it at Salford but that would pushing it.
I still believe the more attacking threats on the field the better, it evenly spreads the pressure between players and defenses won't know where we are going to hit them from.
KK and Morts were one of the best halves combo's in the toyota cup in 08 (not forgetting that KK was by far the more impressive) and I want to see them crack it together in first grade, these two are our future so we might as well have them playing together now and hopefully for many years to come.
For everyone who is saying that they are young and need time, well its true they are still inexperienced but Morts is 21 and KK is 22 this year, these are ages you should be solididated in first grade. I'm sure we won't see fireworks from the both of them in the beginning but with the amount of attacking prowess around them it should take the pressure off them for the first few rounds while they start to build a partnership, once that is formed then we will truly see an outstanding rugby leage team.
I think robson will start, with KK on the bench for RD.1 but the week after...Who knows? Competition for positions is gonna be fierce which is good for parra,let's just hope we get of to a good start.
The halves provided real continuity last year with DA promoting them for the Penrith or Brissy game first ?
Let them build on this and have some impact from KK off the bench. As someone else mentioned year we have enough attacking options now via Hayne, Tahu etc so I think the organisational ability Robson showed fits the bill.
Go the Eels
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