I have always felt that Hoppa would be a walk up start for any starting 13 in the NRL and these stats show why, he gets through a huge amount of work during a game, every game.
I still see many comments he is too slow etc and people are entitled to their opinion on who is the best option at fullback I suppose.
I will tell you this for nothing, Hoppa was hands down a better fullback than Mbye and after reading for the two seasons the “experts” on the kennel saying how Mbye would kill it at fullback and Des was a shit **** for not playing Mbye at fullback. I don’t know if the kennel has the best judgement.