It is a weak area for us for sure we need a real hooker. I don't know if Lichaa has any improvement left in him.
It’s a sad irony that the most damaging hooker in the club, is also one of our best outside backs.
My questions is not does "he have it in him", I've seen enough games or more correctly parts of games where he has shown quite a high level of skill/talent/ability etc. He just doesn't produce it often enough or regularly enough. He doesn't seem injury prone and it's not solely endurance related as he can be good early in one game and then horrible early in the next game. That only leaves application, he just doesn't apply himself to the high level expected of an NRL hooker. He looks to train hard and isn't unfit by any stretch. It's just like he gets lost in the game, that maybe everything is happening too fast around him and he gets overwhelmed. That should be coachable, both for him personally and the players around him being coached how to help him from being overwhelmed.
Sounds like it's a mental thing. Maybe he could try that stuff Fittler bangs on about.
He better aim this year,
Most definitely.
maybe he didn't like elliots afro last year?
He is our longest signed up backrower. He was signed up so we could let others go. Martin only likes signing one year contracts so cant build future around him. Chn is a genuine first grader unlike some of our backrowers with youth on his side. Elliot, martin, c smith still need to improve a couple of areas imo to cement a first grade spot. Chn has alot more points in him than blokes like elliot, smith, sue, and others. I reckon thats why they brought him here. With foz and lewis out there i see the most points being scored by our star backrow rfm, chn, and jacko since sbw days. I hope
Or maybe he can't stand Neil Diamond....
but we were weak in the centres or wing not the backrow .. I hope they prove me wrong and he turns out to be purchase of the offseason .. we haven't had much luck lately buying marque forwards from other clubs (i.e Woods and T-rex) we always work better with home grown forwards.
CHN is from what I saw last year a far superior backrower to Martin. He runs better lines and doesn’t make the same lapses in defence Martin does. He has better lateral movement too which is why he can cover the centres if needed. I think Martin is good but has a lot of areas of his game to work on. His goal kicking seems to overshadow those issues for some people.
You’re wrong, it’s not left field. It never left the field because it never entered it in the first place.
I'm not denying that CHN looked great last year, but was he a necessity ?? or was a centre more of a priority.. we had enough stock in the back row to make do ..
I think his service was actually pretty crisp last weekend. Certainly looked improved.
He did play well last week,looked a tad quicker because of his weight loss
I’m with you on this,not upset to have him and I’ll back CHN now a dog
Not sure about that.