Smiffy27 wrote:
Matt looks a big tough lad who hits hard in the tackle. He didn't take the ball up that much. Unless (of course) I fell asleep and missed a bit.
No, I haven't seen much of him at all, but you may have put your finger on a key weakness there.
He is quick, but not very big.
He has got good hands, but he is not very big.
He works hard... but he is not very big.
Clearly he will not be on a big salary with us and presumably Henderson rates him highly, but he will be at quite a disadvantage against sides like Hull and Catalans who like to use big packs of forwards. I would have preferred us to have signed a fourth prop, but perhaps I am yearning for those long lost days when we played Morley, Carvell, Paul Wood, Cooper and latterly Chris Hill. Even if the opposition managed to survive the initial blast from Morley and the 'wrecking ball', they were a long way from getting a breather as Hill, Wood, Cooper trotted on the pitch to decimate the remaining walking wounded.
