Agree with you there, except the panthers fan bit. Where will they use him?
Look I just wrote on my web site that, we have cheaper, younger wingers and centers who have out performed Lewis who, to be honest, has gone missing at times out wide.
Play him in the forwards? As Gorden Tallis once said "I wouldnt want to be a forward and look next to me to see a winger defending next to me".
So that leaves the halves, where, Lewis has played ok over the last few weeks, but hasn't had the best history of performing there.
I mean, if Luke Lewis is out long term halfbcak, we have problems!
I have nothing against him, and I guess its ok we have kept someone finally, but I think a fresh start would have been good for Lewis and an open spot in our first grade squad would have been good for us too.