thepriestman85 wrote:I honestly never used to rate Hansen one bit but now he’d be my first back rower on the team sheet! Top tackler last season and imo the best defensive 2nd row in SL. I’ve also seen Hansen carve a few defences up by running some excellent lines, he may not be knocking defenders off like some of the larger 2nd rows but he’s hardly ever dominated in the tackle and makes modest yards which you said in your original post.
I honestly don’t think Noble knows how to get the best of him as he’s not the biggest player and is more agile than strong. He’s defiantly not an impact 2nd row yet he seems to have found himself occupying that role in the team? Very strange decision that considering we have an impact 2nd row starting the game and having a number done on him by fresh defences.
Hansen is the kind of player who could realistically play for 80mins and get though a bucket load of tackles and maintain the same level of performance for the whole of the game. A definite keeper
Good post mate
Hansen should be starting in the 2nd row every week IMO
His defence and workrate is fantastic and he would have helped stop some of the early tries we have conceded this season so far.
He also seems to be making some useful metres so far this season and scored a decent amount of tries for us last season as well and I am sure he will repeat this again. I think he has a bit of deceptive pace and is probably our best supporting back rower(see his second try against Bradford). Some of the lines he runs as well our fantastic (see his first try against Bradford)
One of the most under rated players in super league IMO
