Re: Fa’amanu Brown Signs : Thu Oct 19, 2023 10:15 pm  

WIZEB wrote:

I'll watch it on Kayo or Fox Sports live mate.
The killer is missing out on the 8 NRL games over a usual Thurs, Fri, Sat and Sun morning for the next 5+ months.
What else am I meant to do?

Sleep

Re: Fa’amanu Brown Signs : Fri Oct 20, 2023 7:31 am  

Any indepth comparisons for Clifford and Brown?

Obvious one for me looks like Brown has a better running game. Obviously a huge attribute of Clifford game was his kicking.

Whats brown like leading a team around is he an organiser and very vocal?

Re: Fa’amanu Brown Signs : Fri Oct 20, 2023 7:51 am  

Rocknrolla69er wrote:

Any indepth comparisons for Clifford and Brown?

Obvious one for me looks like Brown has a better running game. Obviously a huge attribute of Clifford game was his kicking.

Whats brown like leading a team around is he an organiser and very vocal?

Was Clifford's kicking game that good, I thought at times our last tackle plays were poor, I thought Clifford's best part was running and passing?

Re: Fa’amanu Brown Signs : Fri Oct 20, 2023 8:21 am  

Dave K. wrote:

Was Clifford's kicking game that good, I thought at times our last tackle plays were poor, I thought Clifford's best part was running and passing?

He had a decent spiral bomb - but they only came off every so often. Persisted with short Drop Outs, which I don't mind by the way, but his execution was poor 75% of the time. Best part of his kicking game, was his kick offs. Making it a contest. How many times would Sneyd just put it straight down the half backs throat, then Clifford tries something different and he got criticised too

Re: Fa’amanu Brown Signs : Fri Oct 20, 2023 9:44 am  

Dave K. wrote:

Was Clifford's kicking game that good, I thought at times our last tackle plays were poor, I thought Clifford's best part was running and passing?

Not just me who thought that then. His field kicking was pretty poor. His kick offs were the best part of his kicking game.

Re: Fa’amanu Brown Signs : Fri Oct 20, 2023 12:04 pm  

RockNRolla wrote:

Not just me who thought that then. His field kicking was pretty poor. His kick offs were the best part of his kicking game.

Kick off where fantastic, I hope he was training our current squad and young halfbacks how to do this. One thing he was very good at was off the cuff kicks, earlier in the tackle count when teams maybe wasn't expecting it, we scored a few trys off the back of this. I'd bet we were very low on repeat sets as we seemed to panic on last tackle plays near there line.

Re: Fa’amanu Brown Signs : Fri Oct 20, 2023 12:14 pm  

I didnt mind his kicking game to be fair, thought he turned teams around quite well at times.

Question stands, any comparisons between the two, as to whos the better 7?

Re: Fa’amanu Brown Signs : Fri Oct 20, 2023 12:38 pm  

mwindass wrote:

Not bad for a skint club signing the current Kiwi 9

I remember the time we had an Australian Test hooker who played in all 3 GB/ Aus matches back in the days when beating Aus in Ashes series(this one in Aus) occurred pretty frequently.

He came to play for us soon after.

Re: Fa’amanu Brown Signs : Fri Oct 20, 2023 1:16 pm  

Freddie Miller. wrote:

I remember the time we had an Australian Test hooker who played in all 3 GB/ Aus matches back in the days when beating Aus in Ashes series(this one in Aus) occurred pretty frequently.

He came to play for us soon after.

George Watt?

Re: Fa’amanu Brown Signs : Fri Oct 20, 2023 5:45 pm  

Dave K. wrote:

Was Clifford's kicking game that good, I thought at times our last tackle plays were poor, I thought Clifford's best part was running and passing?

I agree
to have a half who can regularly break the line was a major part of his game