Whenever Luai was in Origin or cleary out, Burton was at 6 for Riff and he killed it.
Tyrone May was literally preferred over him at times when Cleary/Luai would have at least one play. He also had shocking games. I remember Penrith got flogged by the Tigers (LOL) and Burton was a huge reason for that games result. Who cares if he played 6 is whole junior career it hasn’t worked out well for him in that position since then
Burton needs to have the maturity to say hey I’m not delivering at 5/8 th.I’ll do what’s best for the team if that means moving to centre. He doesn’t organise and you barely see him talking.I think Joey is right unless he has a gun half back he can’t lead the team around.
Lol no he didn't. I remember that game, he struggled to seal the game with how many attempts at Field goal.
Burton was crap at 5/8 when both Luai and Cleary were out.. and dont take my word for it. Go watch all the replays when he was in the halves there
He won’t though. Shows just overall lack of care as a captain
He started 10 games in the halves for Penrith and had 7 tries and 5 try assists in those games.
... and of course Perham.
They all bag him but no one can offer a better solution in the halves that’s currently at our club.
I disagree.
Penrith were terrible when he was the half, it’s fact
He really was. Burton would be non existent for practically 90% of the game but have a couple of good moments that lead to points. A big run run, a big bomb, whatever. It's the same story here however without the protection of the Panther system his lack of basics are exposed even more.
