Quote: The Daddy "The Jamie Soward cameo yesterday proved to me, if you do your homework in the player recruitment department it will reflect in the team performance and standing on the team ladder. Our antipidean signings in the past few years have been utter tosh.
Kaufusi has been the biggest disappointment and is stealing a living and just shows we need to do better.
If we can get in players who are commited to the cause it would make such a huge impact for us.'"
Agree, but dont agree!!
On Saturday on the continuous call team (which is a big rating RL radio show here), Bobby Fulton and Steve Roach were discussing Jamie and where it all went wrong for him at the dragons, and how he went from being SOO first pick to playing 'park footie'.
Much of the talk was about how, when Wayne Bennett was the coach at the dragons, they had one of the best and the most mobile forward packs in the game. These guys effectively laid down a great platform for any half back to dictate a game. This year the Dragons forward pack have been woeful, and as such Jamie's game has been destroyed as a result of this. He lost confidence, and finally lost patience with the inability to control games when the Dragons forward pack has been as bad as it is!!
Now, Soward is a class player (Brohman, Fulton and Roach all alluded to this several times), but with any great player you need the systems around that to work as well.
In my opinion, Soward being one the best halves in the world, can not turn around our results on his own. He needs a pack going forward to provide the platform for him to do what he does the best. I have not seen a LB game this year, but it sounds like that is not happening at the moment!!
On another point, I bumped into Lee Hopkins two weeks ago. His fat camp business is doing well and he still hits the BBC website to keep abreast of results. Alround top bloke.