Flanagan's first outing

[flamebouyant]

How did you all rate it? I thought he struggled to show any dominance, and didnt really shine at all. No doubt he will continue to improve, and im by no means writing him off, but i really expected big things from him given all the hype.

 

[Phalangist]

Yeah I was disappointed but I hope he can grow from here because he is still pretty young and didn’t have a dominant 5/8 today.

 

[GrogDog]

Goal kicking needs a truck load of work. Practice practice........ Rest of his game seemed meh but so did alot of the so-called first graders. The kids looked better to me.

 

[UndeadShadowMan]

Was a target for sure didn't have any time at all on the ball. Didn't make any errors though he will improve

 

[bradyk]

6/10 at best. If someone wanted to give Flanagan a 4 or 5/10 I wouldn't argue against it. I thought his long range kick placement was quite solid. No brain explosions like Lewis produces which is nice (I think we saw at least 2 from Lewis' short stint). I liked Flanagan's cross field plays with Allan. I think there is definitely enough there to build off. The Sharkies put a nice target on Flanagan's back (ex-teammates, Flanagan looked up to players like Graham), I think he dealt with it overall okay.

 

[Spoonman84]

He’s not going to shine in his role even at his best because a lot of his work will go unnoticed. Given it was his first game without the five eighth he trained the majority of the pre season with I’m not taking a lot out of that game. It’s going to take time for everything to gel.

The only concern I’m taking out of it with Flanagan is we need variety in our kicker. Having him do the vast majority of the kicking gives the opposition way too much opportunity to put him under pressure.

 

[GDR]

Underwhelming tbh.. I could not really say anything positive about his game..

But the forwards didn't help his cause early on..

I'm sure he will settle in and get a lot better..

 

[bradyk]

He’s not going to shine in his role even at his best because a lot of his work will go unnoticed. Given it was his first game without the five eighth he trained the majority of the pre season with I’m not taking a lot out of that game. It’s going to take time for everything to gel.

The only concern I’m taking out of it with Flanagan is we need variety in our kicker. Having him do the vast majority of the kicking gives the opposition way too much opportunity to put him under pressure.

Burton will bring that in spades in 2022. I can't see Averillo doing much more than a few grubbers here and there. I don't think it's that much different than Cleary and Luai at the Panthers (besides skill level).

 

[CrittaMagic69]

Average. Thought he had too many useless posessions and sent us side to side too much...looked better when Wakeham got his hands on the ball.

This is potentially going to be an issue with Flanagan playing on the ball with him just handling the ball for the sake of it an exhausting himself...he needs to add more variety to his game, make better decisions and utilitise the other playmakers/runners. Could take time to build chemistry.

 

[Kempsey Dog]

5/10 did what he had to, but didn't have much help. He's an organiser / support player, needs a runner in Averillo or Burton alongside him.
Attack was sideways and slow alot... I can see what Barrett wants to do with the attack making us similar to Penrith, issue is it will take time as we aren't as fast, skilled and clinical

 

[Spoonman84]

Burton will bring that in spades in 2022. I can't see Averillo doing much more than a few grubbers here and there. I don't think it's that much different than Cleary and Luai at the Panthers (besides skill level).

Burton doesn’t help this year though. Api has a kicking game that can take pressure off at the Panthers as well. Flanagan was would have taken 90% of the kicks tonight and he is going to have to cope with heavy kick pressure unless someone else takes a few.

 

[_G-Dog_]

 

[capt obvious]

I think he did his job, defended well, played better than his opposite # 7 who has 200 plus more games experience, runs rings around lewis!

 

[doggieaaron]

He will take time the kennel needs to be patient with him,im tipping July before hes good but he will be good

 

[flamebouyant]

Yeah i

Goal kicking needs a truck load of work. Practice practice........ Rest of his game seemed meh but so did alot of the so-called first graders. The kids looked better to me.

Agree. We completely changed once the reserves came through. But i dont think it was due to personel, i think we played 2 completely different halves tactics wise.

 

[Snowmann]

I think the Kennel did well not to death ride-him too much after his first game, 7/10 game from the Kennel.

 

[flamebouyant]

6/10 at best. If someone wanted to give Flanagan a 4 or 5/10 I wouldn't argue against it. I thought his long range kick placement was quite solid. No brain explosions like Lewis produces which is nice (I think we saw at least 2 from Lewis' short stint). I liked Flanagan's cross field plays with Allan. I think there is definitely enough there to build off. The Sharkies put a nice target on Flanagan's back (ex-teammates, Flanagan looked up to players like Graham), I think he dealt with it overall okay.

Yeah, for sure. He wad massively targetted, but still didnt have any real imoact either, considering all the playmaking was left to him. Very different story in the second half though.

 

[flamebouyant]

Average. Thought he had too many useless posessions and sent us side to side too much...looked better when Wakeham got his hands on the ball.

This is potentially going to be an issue with Flanagan playing on the ball with him just handling the ball for the sake of it an exhausting himself...he needs to add more variety to his game, make better decisions and utilitise the other playmakers/runners. Could take time to build chemistry.

I personally thought that wakeham had better creative touches, with far less chances tbh.

 

[Howie B]

I think what we need to keep in mind is that Kyle would be one of the lowest paid starting half backs in the NRL. Baz has bought him on potential.

I am not criticising his performance tonight nor am I am praising it. The fact that I didn’t see the game would make that somewhat hypocritical....

I just think it’s important to keep his wage in mind when judging him. Especially when most starting halfbacks are on $700k plus

 

[rexest]

Id give him a 6.5/10, We might have seen more if waddell didnt drop it twice in the opposition 20 early in the count.

He is a controlling half his job will be to get the ball to allan at the right time and do all the kicking.