Dylan Brown discussion

Well every time he had the ball on Sunday with Kalyn haring around his outside shoulder it looked like something might happen, I'll freak out about where he's posting up when it stops looking sick.
 
HarVeeGee13 said:
I probably wouldn't ask him to deliver the State of the Union, but some interesting tidbits in here. Big one is that he actually would prefer to play on the right (better for his kicking game, has a left hand fend, will give him opportunities to attack a wider open side when he does move over to the left).

He's a rare player in terms of skill set in that he throws an equally great ball both ways and can step about equally well off both feet, if people are wondering why he's made talent scouts cream their pants since he was a teenager there's a clue as to why, but it kind of seems to me like putting him on the right is something that's been arrived at after consultation with Dylan, rather than forced on him to squeeze others in.

But yeah honestly seems like you could sit him on either side and it'd be fine. Modular piece.
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The other key point that pricked my ears up, the term “????”. I have now heard on multiple occasions talk about playing what they see. Second faze play off offloads. Spreading it wide as soon as an offload is made.

Brown “yeah Hollbrook calls it “LIVE” football. Just wow, music to my ears.

The wicked witch is dead
The wicked witch is dead
AOB ball is dead
AOB ball is dead!!
 
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One thing I love about Brown is he’s always anticipating someone breaking the line, and he’s always shooting up in support. There were multiple times where he would come screaming through, from the opposite side of the field. Not to mention, Sharpe is the best support player in the comp.
 
Also so good at summing things up in second phase, that break Gagai makes near the end of the first half which Dane unfortunately blows, you see Kalyn's pass deflects it and Dylan is onto it and finding the right man so quickly. Was on display heaps during the Pac Champs too, so much of the game plan was just "offload the ball to Dylan Brown and good things happen".
 
Yep it’s chalk and cheese between our halves this year compared to having to choose a cogger, gamble, Hastings, Crossland halves combo. I love the commentary from some, how are the knights going so much better this year, well duh, different spine, key players not injured.

I’d like to see some improvement in our clearance kicks, ponga too, was some good but a few they were catching on the 30m line yesterday.
 
I thought he was our best against Penrith too but obviously a lot of that is just being an awful lot more talented than everyone else in the team tbh.

Look he's never going to captain a team, he's probably never going to be the guy who leads the way in terms of geeing other blokes up, but I would argue that's not the kind of player we were short on, especially when you see how much fire and energy our captain is playing with this year.

What POS thought we really really needed in the halves as an injection of ability, rather than a specific traditional 7 archetype. A player of comparable skill and threat to Ponga, based on the theory that they'd amplify each other's best traits. What we've essentially done is shelled out for a more robust Shaun Johnson.

Shaun had his negatives. But also the right edge at the Sharks/Warriors was the most prolific right edge in the comp almost every season if he was fit. The hardest place to break down a defence is in the attacking 20 and every Shaun Johnson team was great at it (if he was a better whole game decision maker he legit would have been as good at Thurston IMO).

What I'll point to as a huge positive is that a lot of Brown's issues at 7 previously were that his natural game disappeared if he had too much responsibility, eg he never had a game where he kicked for more than 200 metres and ran for more than 100 in the same game. For us he already has 3 such games. I don't know if it's play style or environment but this is absolutely the most "putting it all together" footy he's ever played and it's happened straight away.
 
Brown is the type of player that can win big moments and winning big moments can win a grand finals. Even if he isn't the greatest halfback out there he sure can defend and we spent a lot of money on a very good defender and we all know the saying about how defence wins grand finals.
 
Brown has been fines $1000 for his tackle, free to play.
I find it a bit ridiculous that he has been fined comparing it to the Radley tackle where he got off completely.
 
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