by AL Fri Apr 15, 2022 7:55 am
hj1991 wrote:Feel for you lot who were whinging 17 minutes into the game
I appreciate some people are only interested in the end points / score, but I enjoy watching the games (mostly - been a couple of bludgers recently) and player’s performances.
IMO Nanai had a shocker with basic execution / discipline issues, questionable tackling technique and couldn’t have looked less interested in attack at times. 33 run meters, and was usually standing so deep and flat footed he couldn’t even be considered for a hit up or backline pass. Didn’t help with any grunt work.
He is obviously an incredible athlete, and can break a game open - but he is young and it is going to take time and experience to find his feet and realise he is playing with the best of the best now. Talent alone won’t get him to the top, needs a solid foundation of basics and hard work / effort.
TLDR; thankfully saved his score but it’s a thumbs down from me. He won’t be near my 17 for a while. He might even turn in to one of his team mates next week, but not Gilbert