Well, if he has a sidestep, even an easily readable one, he should still make more line breaks than his predecessor did. One would do it.

Lol. Too right.

As I've said before, I'm done with watching YouTube clips. Too many high hopes, dashed.

I've not clicked on Sally's links. I imagine they're disgruntled fans venting their spleens. The SL is a lot easier than NRL, so he's got a fair bit more scope to play well.

No. The bit that interests me, is Sally's "started off sensationally, then tailed off" bit. He's just described Graham Appo. Apparently, he made a career out of this.
I pray Austin doesn't follow the same path.

Here's hoping.

I'm giving the lad the same blank sheet as I do everyone.
If a month in I feel the honeymoon period is over and he isn't pulling his weight, he'll get his own topic too.

At least if Austin did that, we'd be back to where we were with Sandow (or Saints with Barba) and I'd quite look forward to an early season of Austin tearing teams up.

The main thing I want to avoid with a big signing like this, is going through the familiar soul-destroying cycle again:

- "can't wait to see him in the flesh, he could be the man who wins us the Grand Final this year"
- "lets not knee-jerk after 2 games, he's only just got here and he's probably not fully fit"
- "maybe he will get better when the sun comes out and the pitches firm up"
- "why not give one of the Academy lads a chance, or is he undroppable because of his big salary?"
- "I will drive him to the airport myself"

It appears that some of you have written Austin off before he has even arrived. Given the guy a fighting chance . Price has had time to assess matters and will get it right. I always felt Roberts was a rushed purchase and what was available there has been more time to assess Austin and how he fits in with Prices philosophy Let’s not pre- determine Austin before he arrives and instead judge him after 10 or 12 games.

Didn't you want to get rid of Price a few weeks into this season?

So if Austin comes over and produces superb attacking play as barba did, yet we don't make either final, does that make roberts more of a success?

Reeling them in on that.

No it was during the first half of the first game

It possibly could be judged a better season because we wouldn't be bottlers.
The 2011 season, when we were knocked out in the playoffs after winning the League Leaders Shield, was probably the peak of the TS era, and we didn't bottle a final.

He is making the right k8nd of noises about coming over which is a positive and with family in tow hopefully he can get settled in quickly. My preference would be for there to be a new partner for him to work with.

At present we can only speculate on how things will work out but it's a fair assumption he will work out better than Roberts.