Fletcher Sharpe discussion

[HarVeeGee13]

Tell you what I’m sick of seeing though? The idiots of social media saying he’s a nothing player and he needs to step aside and let Ponga run the show in the halves! Like one guy today suggested he is a pointless pick and shouldn’t even be in the side!

You just want to shake some sense into them but something tells me their parents already tried that when quite young.

Your average Facebook or Twitter user is a zero attention span overgrown child who only watches highlights.

Last year he was a player who had great highlights so I'm sure those people thought he was going a lot better.

This year he's had to play on with an injury restricting his ability to do highlight reel plays so he's had to play a role within the system more, so how effective he's been has hinged on his ability to do what a lot of us myself included doubted his ability at: to effectively play a half's role in shape. His rate of improvement on that front has been really pleasing and a more mature person who watches the whole game would factor that into their assessment of him going forward.

Moreover Kalyn's form since he's come back has demonstrated he's an out-and-out fullback! The more he's brought onto the ball two or three passes wide with his inside men squaring up the defensive line, the more dangerous he looks!

 

[jamesgould]

He did touch on it on Matty Johns last night, saying it is getting better week to week.

That's been clear watching him the last two weeks ... Souths was a big jump in terms of mobility and explosiveness, even if he did get run down for a try. Then last week again, he was much more involved like you'd expect him to be at full fitness.