Howe is shyte....high flying shyte, but still shyte nonetheless.
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He's just a lot less shyte than our players who play a similar ROLES. Geez that would make him a pretty decent upgrade. In fact roles aside this year he would have been in front of 25 - 30 odd of our players. That would make him easily a top 22 player.
If you think him an outright spud it would be easy to say your opinion of most of our players would have to be scathing.
No he's just as shyte as them.....you're just enamoured by his big grabs.....plus you have a tendency to overrate opposition spuds just as much as some of our supporters overrate ours...
Name them IN CONTEXT AND AT WHAT COST.
I could reel off many i wanted which is most us who have worked out, but i would only be accused of big noting myself.
The players i have put out there this yr to go after. Henderson, Carlisle, SJ, Plowman,Bastinac, Townsend, Hall, Kruezer, Tomlinson, Litherland, Seedsman, Kerridge, With Tomlinson always the bloke i wanted most. Funnily enough Howe is not a player i have advocated we go after, i have just made the observation that he would be an upgrade on many of our current players.
No hes a better player than many on our list IMO of course.
Yes i like the fact he can take a grab he does it regularly and is a strength of his game.
Im never enamored by any player, it is simply a matter of Performance, strenghths weaknesess and the role they can perform.
No one is saying hes a champion but he would be a reasonable upgrade on what we have. Isnt that what trading is all about improving your list even if sometimes it is only incremental improvment.
So hes APPARENTLY asking for 600k. he is or he isnt which is it. 600K is too much, that i can agree on.
Personally id have him at richmond and play him as a marking h/f flanker, at 190cm that makes him a real tall and a difficult player to match up on. The last season he played fwd was 2013 and he kicked 28 goals. That would just about make him our second most prolific goals scorer.
