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I think considering Baz made him train exclusively all off season at 7 should be factored in.

He is then dumped after the first two games of the season to Cup. Then he gets recalled yo play Centre where he hasn’t trained all off season and now he’s asked to be the fullback

Admittedly he looks 1000 times better at the back than he did anywhere else …last week wasn’t his best game but we didn’t concede 5 kick tries like the week before

I think he will finish the year strong and after a full summer training at 1 he will kill it next year
Yeah agreed but that's what I am saying. People need to stop making the excuse of covid, he is not a good fullback at the moment. Will he improve? Hopefully, but right now he does not do the basics well.

I think Cowboys will be a huge test and I hope he delivers.
 

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Im will to give Averillo the entire off season to get the basics right for being a full time Fullback…. So many here said this years ago to trial him at 1, but T Ballz had other ideas.
We’ll still need I believe to bring in cover for a No.1 just in case Averillo doesn’t work out or gets a long term injury. Unless Allen turns in JMK and kills it
Agreed. He has a lot to work on, and if the club is going to invest in him at the back they need to work with him over the off season to fix a lot of things.

Toia should be that cover for fullback. I think he's a better option but who knows if he gets the opportunity or not.
 

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Can we add one of the after effects of Covid as dropping the ball and not pushing up in support?? Lol

I love how we are making every excuse for Averillo. I said this many times before he got Covid, he is not nailing the basics at the fullback position. While it looks great when he's in open field, his positioning is bad, defence is average, he does not make the right play in attack ie. last week called for the ball down the blindside and we were out numbered, against Tigers Flanno set him up perfectly to run through a hole the size of Sam Kasiano's gut and he just hung back 10m lol. I have a very bad feeling that Cowboys are going to expose Averillo this week. Hope I am wrong.
Just lol. Still trolling I see.
 

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I think considering Baz made him train exclusively all off season at 7 should be factored in.

He is then dumped after the first two games of the season to Cup. Then he gets recalled yo play Centre where he hasn’t trained all off season and now he’s asked to be the fullback

Admittedly he looks 1000 times better at the back than he did anywhere else …last week wasn’t his best game but we didn’t concede 5 kick tries like the week before

I think he will finish the year strong and after a full summer training at 1 he will kill it next year
He's just trolling because he keeps bringing up that stupid Flanagan play lol.
 

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I really don't want any dykes at our family club. Next thing you know they will make us wear that pride jersey and tear our club apart [emoji12]
Kade Dykes is debuting for the Sharks at fullback this weekend.
Apparently Gus was pretty deep in negotiations to get him over for next year to play fullback.
But he knocked us back and signed a 2 yr extension with the Sharks.
 

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Hopefully he flops this week and he regrets knocking us back.

Surely Sloan says he wants out of Dragons this off season and we swoop.
 

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There is more than one play Marley
He has a years experience at fullback in SG ball and a couple games in the NRL yet you're complaining about him not nailing the basics when players with far more experience still aren't? No one was expecting him to be nailing everything but he's actually doing quite well in many areas and improving each game despite you claiming he has been bad.

He was always going to make mistakes and I'm sure everyone at the club expected him to, what I'm not sure about is why you're just focusing on that when there's more positives. He didn't drop a single ball against the Sharks in awful conditions, is scoring a try a game, is coming up with some nice plays, etc. Point is he has shown enough to earn a full preseason in the role, a preseason where he will work on fullback play more than he ever has and hopefully continue to make improvements.
 

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Averillo has been brilliant every game despite thrown in mid season has 1 bad game people into him this place is a crackup sometimes
I'd call it a quiet game rather than a bad game. Sometimes the ball follows you around all game and sometimes it stays away from you. The only blemish I can recall was when he spilled a particularly nasty bomb. He didn't let it spook him though, and he took the next one that came his way.
 

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He has a years experience at fullback in SG ball and a couple games in the NRL yet you're complaining about him not nailing the basics when players with far more experience still aren't? No one was expecting him to be nailing everything but he's actually doing quite well in many areas and improving each game despite you claiming he has been bad.

He was always going to make mistakes and I'm sure everyone at the club expected him to, what I'm not sure about is why you're just focusing on that when there's more positives. He didn't drop a single ball against the Sharks in awful conditions, is scoring a try a game, is coming up with some nice plays, etc. Point is he has shown enough to earn a full preseason in the role, a preseason where he will work on fullback play more than he ever has and hopefully continue to make improvements.
LOL cheers scoop, I did not ask for his life story but appreciate it
 
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