Legends and Icons wrote:A change of scenery may do him and his confidence a world of good . I know it wasn't nothing to do with him but what his father did must have had an affect on him (as it would the best of us) .
In 2013 prior to his season ending injury Greg Eden was in a rich vein of form quite outstanding. Pretty much error free and showing attacking skills very few players are capable of.
Whether the interruption of his injury or his Dad's situation was the cause he returned in 2014 totally lacking in confidence much like the early part of 2013.
When you see Eden at his best and we have done quite a few times he is just so talented you can only admire his brilliance.
Unfortunately his confidence is brittle and his judgement lacking. And there are genuine question marks about his 'bottle' I am very happy I will not see him again take the ball up and then throw a pass to someone no better positioned as if to say 'You take it up I don't want to'. And you never see Greg at the bottom of a heap wrong side of the try line holding the ball up like a Burns or a Cockayne.
He's leaving now and I think it is in the best interests of both parties. But just because it ended up in tears doesn't mean the kid is a write off. He's still got more talent than 99% of Super League players. On a good day, a crazy free day, a day where what he does comes off, he can look absolutely world class. It's hard to give up on a player that good but the fact we all have done tells a story.
We've kept an option on him just like Huddersfield did for fear of becoming the rugby equivalent of the record company that released The Beatles. It's looking like Greg is destined to be more of a Syd Barrett than a John Lennon but both were blinding talents.
