Quote The Clan="The Clan"That is not where the good stuff ends, while his speed is obvious to everyone what is maybe not so obvious is his ability to take advantage of his pace in various ways. He positions himself to make a break, has a great ability to offset the defence by varying his pace, has a great instinctive awareness of how to manipulate the defender with body shape, swerve, in and out, and he certainly doesn't lack bottle when going low for a try.
His defence is obviously a concern but he has shown over the last two years that he is willing to work on it and has the ability to improve. It's an aspect of the game he will always be troubled by but it's also something he that can get better with good coaching and experience.
His signing will give us a cutting edge and we will have an ability to score from anywhere provided we can get the ball to him. '"
a spot on assessment in my view.
A loss for Warrington in my opinion. The problem with Penny was he was given a contract by Paul Cullen that by all accounts was quite a good one and one that Tony smith thought could be better spent elsewhere i.e two or three academy players for the price of Penny's contract is good business to him (and you can see the merits of it when Penny was just a kid himself).
Opposition fans may console themselves by reeling out the he "cant tackle cant catch" line truth is he made a high profile knock on in a challenge cup game not long after scoring an absolute blinder and he recieved plenty of stick from the saints fans...and its just stuck with him i'm afraid. Ive seen Francis Meli and Ade Gardner make more basic handling and defensive errors than Penny. Plus Penny played alongsde Matt King when he was absolute dog pooh or Chris Bridge when he was relatively new to the centre position.
however your team goes next season turning up to Watch Kevin Penny goose all and sundry will help the days go by.
and when you play us if theres a foot race between Penny and our wingers we wont win it
