Stats show 34 missed talks from 290. 12%. I would call that pretty average rather than immense.

Ha! Not in the actual game though. He's a better passer than any of our current in my opinion.

i was going to reply to this... then i read some of your posts and realised you're a bit on the slow side.

So i wont.

Go one then... i will bite

he isnt very good.... thats the bottom line. You cant watch that game and pinpoint Austin making mistakes.... What i saw from Austin was someone desperately trying to make things happen, but not having any luck.

When i watch Patton i see the poor passes, the bad decision making, the ropey defence.... over and over over.

When i see Austin, i see someone trying his hardest to pull the rest of the players up to his level... if we gave him a better pack to work behind and a half decent 7, god knows what we would see.... he is currently top of the charts with 18 tries and 11 assists.... is probably the leading contender for MOS..... Not bad for a 'settling in' period.

It's getting to the point now, where if he doesn't put a team to the sword on his own, he getting stick for it... it seems people think he should be levitating over players and scoring at will or something... amazing.

How come Chris Riley scored hundred odd tries....was it because he was just so good he could score outside anyone?

+1

We've done this Sally. Riley by his own admission said the majority of his tries were walk ins.

He must have had a world class centre inside him to be on the end of all those walk ins.

All face balls from Hodgson cutting out the centre

Anyway I'm not sure what point your are mooting here - we have had a wealth of good centres or one or two in the last 15 years?

I know that he wasn't here long enough to put in your lists but IF we could have kept hold of Hiku for a couple of seasons....I think he may have made it in SL

Ah yeah - I forgot about Hiku! He was definitely top rate.

Luther plays in London.

Not a problem his tenure in a Wire shirt was unfortunately too short all be it timely, but, what it shows to me and I include Burrell in this, is that the club does try to recruit in a fairly balanced method and centre is no exception, despite the position carrying more of a utility value than some others? The best are usually out and out centres but most are touted as centres that could play at FB, or Wing or Second Row.

Will Burrell perhaps a second row centre work out I hope he does looking forward to seeing him give it a go and FWIW I think King still has a decent chance of making Tier 1 fingers crossed

Oh what might have been. We ended up with an opportunist signing of Goodwin due to financial issues at Leigh, and although BG hasn't let us down, PH disappearing back home was a massive disappointment.