Re: RD 9 | Hull FC (H) : Tue Apr 11, 2023 3:28 pm
leedsbarmyarmy wrote:
That will probably be true as O'Connor has only just transitioned to 9, but hes unproven at SL level at the moment, and in my view isn't ready to be starting when we need to be building momentum and getting some consistency. O'Connors defence is especially key at the moment.
Smith obviously rates Johnson, so will get game time but doubt he will featuring every week. Against the bigger packs id rather have 4 forwards on the bench.
Smith obviously rates Johnson, so will get game time but doubt he will featuring every week. Against the bigger packs id rather have 4 forwards on the bench.
Watching both warm up on Friday you could see that in terms of build Johnson is much slighter and therefore less able to deal with big forwards coming down the middle at the start of the game. In terms of distribution he's clearly superior to O'Connor, who can still be a bit clunky, although an improvement on Leeming and Dwyer. Hopefully they'll both continue to work on improving their games in tandem. If so, we'll have a useful hooking combination.
