St pete wrote:
I honestly can't see foster becoming a first team regular again, he lacks pace and size and doesnt have any foot work so basically he can't beat a man.
I know people will say he's not bulked up yet but neither has makinson, swift, charnley, tomkins etc but they all showed slight signs of doing something.
Eh? How has Makinson showed MORE than Foster? Foster might not possess the greatest footwork but he's a pretty good finisher. He knows how to squeeze into tight spaces and put the ball down. He's also demonstrated superb goal-kicking - as good as anyone I've seen in twenty five years. Those two attributes
alone put some pretty big numbers in Foster's plus column. Explain what Makinson has done which can be roughly approximated in similar terms?
In any case - you've stacked the deck hopelessly against Foster when you're introducing names such as Tomkins. I mean, who next - Greg Inglis?
Let's be honest here - Foster's problem is not that he makes mistakes (all players do), it's not the
number of mistakes (in which case Shenton would be way ahead of him) - it's that he makes
conspicuous mistakes. If he got to grips with his handling of kicks very few people would be mentioning his name. And there's the fact that he has lots of confidence - which is always a polarising issue for fans.