A couple of things here Dave, I would hardly call Bird a star, and secondly why the extension ? one would have to think that extending Cook gives more emphasis to leaving KF in the halves, bad mistake !!!
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Nah, i dont like it Rev, KF was brought here as a 14, he's played 14 at the Dogs, was his best position. Extending Cook only allows him to stay in the halves because he certainly ain't going to ressies, we all know that.
It beats me Justa. Just because Cook says that he is keen to play on should not automatically bring about an extension of his stay at the Dragons as a player. It does smell of maybe Cook being the 14, Liddle the 9 and thus keeping Kyle in the halves. Shane WILL NOT think of putting his dearly beloved in the 14 spot nor in ressies.
This is what Flanno wants but unless he has dramatically improved in his late 20s, it must come down to Flanno dropping him or a new coach dropping him. Unless he really can play in the position Flanno says he was recruited for.
Is this preparation for Atkinson to take the heat if he and Kyle, like every other halves partner he has ever had are a bad combination? When you say Kyle won't be expected to lead, what do you mean? He won't be responsible for long kicking, thankfully even though Flanno said he has a good kicking game. What else won't he be expected to do that he was supposed to be doing last year?
Settle down mate. I mean Atkinson will be the dominant half at our club and with that comes responsibility for game management. That's what he was brought here for and that's what he has said in interviews he wants. Blind Freddy can see that's not Kyle's strength so he will play a supporting role and let Atkinson call most of the clutch plays. Kyle will go ok in that supporting role until either LKT or O'Neill show enough, or until Reed is ready to go.
TBF it is a touchy subject, to me he'll either prove himself or he wont, so the crappy excuses so far, Hunt was one of his partners, LKT was one of his partners, then we had crappy forwards etc etc etc. So without evidence of these excuses our only issue will be is will Flanno drop him to ressies, we shall see. For me I think he should be at 14 right now and bring LKT in.
So was JDB but they kicked him in the guts. A kick in the guts too for Liddle who will have to spend two more yrs as Cooks assistant. gggrrr. Just as well we extended our best hooker.
Ackers wasn't really cutting it. A few injuries and didn't grow as much. Fell behind a few others. Lets wait and see if Latu even plays first grade.
He had a good run. Club treated him well. Was probably the right time to let him go. We won't have to wait long to see. He had a few below par games last year.