In the Panthers squad to face Melbourne Storm at the weekend. Bit of an eye opener! www.nrl.com/TelstraPremiership/M ... &tab=Teams

In the Panthers squad to face Melbourne Storm at the weekend. Bit of an eye opener! www.nrl.com/TelstraPremiership/M ... &tab=Teams

... surprising considering the form/base skills he showed with us (particularily in defence) but good luck to him

don't see why it is an eye-opener at all, as long as the Panthers don't expect him to kick goals

His defence was pretty good, not sure where you get that.

My opinion - from watching him play for WTWRLFC

I actually thought Isaac did OK when he played. What let him down and cost him his place in the team was his kicking ability (not something that we actually signed him for I don't think).
He missed too many attempts at goal and that was costing us so we brought in a kicker. If that kicker had played a different position to Isaac John then I suspect he would have continued to play and been given the chance to develop.

I wish him all the best back in the NRL and am personally glad he has been given a chance over there. I hope he goes on to be a very good player.

agreed

I know for a fact that there were concerns regarding his defence from the coaching staff, but other than the odd occasional mis read, which is not really un common in younger players, it wasnt something that i would say caught my eye. Certainly no worse than some others that we have/have had.

his defence was much better than Tim Smith's and he would have done fine for us given the opportunity. Unfortunately we had to shoe-horn a goalkicker into the side at his expense.

Good luck to him. I hope he has a great game.

I thought he was just a little unluckyin that he was the one to lose his spot to a specilist kicker and in a younger player he needs to be playing week in week out. Best of luck to him especially against the Storm who are something else

I'll be watching on Sunday, so I'll let you know how he gets on.

Either way, it will be hard to shine against the Storm, although they were exposed a bit out wide last week, so maybe a few more teams will adopt that strategy.

Good luck to the lad just dont think he was good enough.

Just read on an aussie forum that John is wanted by Panthers, Tigers and Broncos all trying to get him. Not good enough for us, but yet 1, 2, 3 NRL clubs making offers.... Whats that say? Was it our team or our coach?

Although I rated the lad, I think he was a victim of circumstance. He perhaps would've settled better at an established team. He showed glimpses of what he could do with his excellent cut out passes, but sadly he bore the brunt of the criticism for the teams poor form.