Burton’s Game

[Kenya]

I suspect Burton is a better centre than he is at 6.

He compulsively steps off his left foot to straighten in attack at 6. Quite a few of the Penrith back line do that, (they’ve been drilled) but they are very quick to pass after straightening, Burton is not yet feeding his outside well.

In D Burton is slow to cover inside when the attack straightens or angles in. When someone angling in hits the ball he tends to miss. He is well and truly found out by Melbourne & Panthers so far.

Won’t be surprised if in ‘23 we see him in centres as we become a champion team again.

 

[_G-Dog_]

Burton is the least of our issues..

 

[CrittaMagic69]

Burton has been poor but it's far easier playing centre for the Panthers than 5/8 for us. Go slot Tago in at centre for us and i promise you he goes no where close to replicating his Panthers form this season.

 

[Kempsey Dog]

The biggest issue is our slow service and how tight our edges are. Look at our edges mid to late set. Our winger is always inside his opposite which means we will rarely ever get an overlap... Especially when you couple that with our slow service at dummy half. Burton really has no options.

 

[Matthew G]

Burto been one of our best, terrible shout

 

[Brendan7]

You try being a half with JMK at hooker, no go forward aside from TPJ…oh and a fullback making errors everywhere. He’s a great play Burton but he isn’t coving that many holes

 

[Hulk76]

Thanks coach

I suspect Burton is a better centre than he is at 6.

He compulsively steps off his left foot to straighten in attack at 6. Quite a few of the Penrith back line do that, (they’ve been drilled) but they are very quick to pass after straightening, Burton is not yet feeding his outside well.

In D Burton is slow to cover inside when the attack straightens or angles in. When someone angling in hits the ball he tends to miss. He is well and truly found out by Melbourne & Panthers so far.

Won’t be surprised if in ‘23 we see him in centres as we become a champion team again.

 

[ddt192]

Mahoney will give him so much time next year and take some pressure off him and whoever’s playing 7. Once we get thru this bullshit run in our corrupt af draw I can see us beating some other lower teams this year and getting our attack going. Would be good if him and Flanno can kick on and keep developing together.

 

[Malla]

There’s some dumb shit posted after a loss

 

[B-Train]

How many centres kick 40/20s? He's a half. And by far the best one we have.. He's had three different halves partners in five games.. He still gets zero time on the ball because of shit service and poor coaching and has multiple defenders in his face which forces him to go back on the inside or shut down the play at times.

Now that Melbourne and Penrith are out of the way, hopefully we can see him find his form. Flanagan combined better with Burton, so we'll see how they play next week.

 

[UmoGus]

Burton has been poor but it's far easier playing centre for the Panthers than 5/8 for us. Go slot Tago in at centre for us and i promise you he goes no where close to replicating his Panthers form this season.

Play heka Nanai at left centre in the panthers system and he will look world class

 

[Psycho Doggie]

It will be a few seasons before we start seeing the best of Burton. Besides the reasons already given, he has got players around him that he has only played a few games with, and is still a young player himself. It is clear that our strategy this season is to keep pressure off our young halves and let them find their way. We want Burton to develop into a Wally Lewis/Brad Fitler level half, not a Brooks/Norman level half.

 

[Chris Harding]

If you want to see how Penrith can make any player look good - just watch Staines.

 

[maroondog72]

he has been the only focal point of our attack and constantly under pressure because of it and people bag him, seriously give yourself a fucking uppercut .

 

[Philmus]

If you want to see how Penrith can make any player look good - just watch Staines.

he's just keeping the spot warm for May. To'o will slot back in and May moves to the right i suspect, Staines has feet for hands whereas May is quality. also off contract, hope Kiks brings him over to us in his suitcase

 

[doggieaaron]

Our 9 is our biggest issue

 

[Alan79]

Our 9 is our biggest issue

I think we're sorted for the hooking role next year. For this year we're still playing without a scrap of composure. Kills me watching us decide to go all in on a play 20m out from our own line on tackle one or two. It frequently looks like nobody is expecting it to happen most of the time.

 

[doggieaaron]

I think we're sorted for the hooking role next year. For this year we're still playing without a scrap of composure. Kills me watching us decide to go all in on a play 20m out from our own line on tackle one or two. It frequently looks like nobody is expecting it to happen most of the time.

Yep cook or bbo give better service but i feel trent wont ever drop jmk

 

[craigo]

Good for him he was part of a premiership winning team. Bad for us they played him in centre cause he don’t know how to run a team. His last tackle options are pretty shit

 

[craigo]

Mahoney will give him so much time next year and take some pressure off him and whoever’s playing 7. Once we get thru this bullshit run in our corrupt af draw I can see us beating some other lower teams this year and getting our attack going. Would be good if him and Flanno can kick on and keep developing together.

Only team we could possibly beat is tigers.