Re: Which Thomas will replace Ryan Hall for England next WC? : Tue Feb 27, 2018 9:00 pm
NickyKiss wrote:
My view?
I only made a case for one and there’s only one who’s been good enough over the past few years to state a case to replace our current wingers in the International set up.
I really like Johnstone by the way. He’s a terrific talent and he more then likely will play for England. Get excited over him all you want (nit too excited though) but because other people make cases for other players, that doesn’t mean they’re bagging the lad.
I only made a case for one and there’s only one who’s been good enough over the past few years to state a case to replace our current wingers in the International set up.
I really like Johnstone by the way. He’s a terrific talent and he more then likely will play for England. Get excited over him all you want (nit too excited though) but because other people make cases for other players, that doesn’t mean they’re bagging the lad.
You mean apart from this.
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Makinson is better than Johnstone and it may be unpopular but Johnstone is overrated. Good going forward but defensively he is poor, you only need to watch the game against Salford and in particular Salford’s last try, way too far inside. As for tries scored, majority of that is down to how the team plays as well as the quality of centre inside of the winger. Would Eden have scored the amount of tries last season if he was playing for Widnes? Makinson, Davies, McGillvary and Hall are all better than Johnstone and you could argue the case for a few others as well.
As for Makinson he's a good SL player, but let's be honest some of the tries Johnstone has scored in his career, he could only dream about scoring.
As for his defense, if that's all you've got to describe his defense as poor, he's not doing too bad because If I could be arsed to go back and find the name of the games I could name times all the wingers mentioned have been caught out of position, it happens to even the best wingers in world sometimes.