St pete wrote:
Jones has suddenly become a bad player because he's leaving it seems. It was only two seasons ago people on here was saying future england player etc.
Jones is a very important member of the squad Imo and we will miss him. He's so young yet and so much growing still to come and much more quality yet to come from him and sadly we will miss it.
The way he can switch from centre to Backrow so easily for a young kid shows how far ahead he is of most lads his age.
I've not seen this Dom play but I'll be very surprised if he's on the same level as jones.
I think people saying future England player was always excessive. Jones has always been solid, but I see him as a workhorse that helps you win games, rather than someone who is going to win you a match. He'd be in my first choice 17 simply for the fact that he's got a great work rate, he's mobile for a forward and he doesn't really miss many tackles.
However, I think he lacks impact with the ball to be a top quality player - Wilkin has made more metres with the ball despite playing most of the season in the halves, and Vea has only made 70 metres less than him, having played 10 less matches.
I've never seen him play, but in defence of Peyroux, if he can cover wing, centre and second row, he's a pretty handy player to have in your squad. He's mainly a centre - both of NZ Warriors first-choice centres are Tonga's centres. Their main backrowers are Mannering, the NZ national team Captain, Ryan Hoffman, the NSW vice-Captain, and Bodene Thompson who made the NZ Four Nations squad last year. So it's not like he's been stuck in reserve grade behind awful players. You don't get picked for Samoa in two consecutive years if you're a bad player.