Fingers crossed Hawkins is better than he looked last week in Reggie's. He didn't look like a bloke sufficient for the NRL. Maybe just settling in to a new club. I still hold reservations considering Bennett didn't offer him a contract and went for the young kid from Manly and Sullivan.
"It continues to come down to who would you replace him with? Answer in todays market, no one. He has played well in 2025 and is continuing to win pre season training awards. He is growing. Need him to stay until the pathways players can take the…"
"mmmmm okay can I ask a simple question.
If the Eels wanted to upgrade their current game day squad (top 17), as of today, would Russell be in your top 3 to replace with someone better."
"His defence was great, it was actually an amazing part of his game this year. I think most people were just rightly frustrated by blowing quite a few opportunities by not getting the ball to JAC in time with his slow hands.
I'd still prefer Russell…"
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Fingers crossed Hawkins is better than he looked last week in Reggie's. He didn't look like a bloke sufficient for the NRL. Maybe just settling in to a new club. I still hold reservations considering Bennett didn't offer him a contract and went for the young kid from Manly and Sullivan.
Tigers were so much faster than us out wide. Jac brings some much needed speed. Between penisi, samrani and russell we had a very slow backline
Agree Jiver, get Simmo on the other wing when he is fit
Good to see JAC come in
I'm glad Samrani kept his spot and Russell got the boot.
Hands is average but Lussick is just absolute shit. Not sure what Kearney 2.0 is thinking about here.
Probably wants some line speed in the first 20m. I dont really mind it because smith will be on for 60 minutes
I like it, ryles is showing back to back below expectations performances won't be acceptable, hands has been poor at best.
He has been poor at best but even his poor games are better than 90% of Lussick's games.
You can't keep rewarding players that aren't performing, this is what BA was doing, it promotes complacency.
I understand that but replacing poor with utter crap is just as bad.
I don't remember lussick being as bad as hands has been the first two games. He isn't as good but I don't think his floor is as low as hands.
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