Quote: G1 "He's the best English left centre in the competition and I was saying that long before Saturday.'"
I would find it hard to disagree on the evidence of the play off series.
Atkins is the obvious one who would challenge him and does have more pace but i would say Ablett is more sound in his defensive work.Atkins has more strike in him than i suppose Ablett ever will but when you have a winger outside you in the mould of Ryan Hall begging to be fed then his ability to create a yard of space and to offload in the tackle means the lack of a yard of pace can be over looked.(Matt Gidley was never the quickest but how many of his wingers trys were down to his creativity?)
Before the playoffs i wasn't fully sold on the idea,but now I hope we stick with him as our LC for next season, as it does not appear that we are going to get anyone who is going to be a marked improvment on Carl. so lets show some faith in him and let the partnership with Hall flourish.