no im renegade81

I've always been happy enough to give my opinion, I just don't really hang around here often enough to get into a long enough discussion to explain/justify my view any more, so it was more that than a reluctance to disagree with the masses.

I actually agree with JWP in parts on this, his semi final performance blew me away (and was much better than his Lance Todd performance), but he still has that intercept in him, and I still feel that if things are not going well then he struggles more than most.

Don't get me wrong, I don't dislike Higham, I thought he was a good buy, a very good one tbh but I can't believe people can't see the limitations in his game.
Monaghans a complete player, he has skills Higham doesn't, he's not quite Cam Smith, not as good as Cunningham in his day but the biggest difference comparing the two at our place was highlighted last week where Higham took three unsuccesful scoots in one set on their line.
Monas hasn't justified the early hype completely yet but by the end of next season he will have, in bucketloads playing at 9.
He still seems to be finding his way with how we play, sometimes I think the runners aren't always up to his speed of thought.

He has more skill due to him being a scrum half moved to Hooker, Higham is a hooker. Good move by Smith to see the potential there.

very good move by smith monas has played realy outstanding at 9 ,the point im trying to make to this dico is when higham came on the team went 100 times faster and the trys were scored for half time ,just thought smith should have put higham back on again and give him some more time to try do the same again speed the ruck ,higham is the best at that and his defence ant bad 2

It wasnt that Smith saw the potential, it was the only choice.

I thought that as a club we had learned from the Sullivan debacle that it was a big risk to sign a player as a scrum half who had plyed his trade at hooker for the previous couple of seasons.

And then we went and did it again with Monas. Dont get me wrong that originally he was a superb scrum half but after playing at Mnaly for 2 seasons as hooker his game had changed so much that he could not revert to the scrum half role.

However as previously stated in other posts a class act at hooker.