Quote: craigizzard "The question marks that remain are
Those are very good questions.
1. I suspect Fallooon (or indeed any other hooker playing in the NRL) could do a passable imitation of anything that Aiton did last year. In other words, I've no worries on that score.
2. You call it smarts, I'll call it steadiness under pressure. I don't think that can be replaced, at least not immediately; it takes a hell of a special player and a hell of a lot of experience to marshall some of those tight, backs-to-the-wall games. That isn't a disaster as we're still good enough to feature in them and we'll win our share; but maybe not quite the lion's share we've enjoyed.
3. Can't argue with how you see it, except that without Sinfield's control we may actually blow more teams away by playing more flamboyantly. We'll probably lose a few more too.