TMan24tm wrote:Naughton is 21, give us all break. Let's judge the lad next season when he gets a run in the team. Seriously I've heard all this in the past with Shaul, now we're doing it with Naughton. I hope the lad doesn't read these posts. Give me strength !
I'm not doing him down, I'm saying he does not fit the criteria for a good no.9, if you can't see that his tackling technique is average at best and that he has being run over even by opposing wingers/centres never mind forwards then that's a shortcoming you'll need to address.
At 21 if you have mickey poor technique and are small that isn't something you can address overnight, not by a long chalk. He also doesn't fit into the mould that Radford appears to strictly want in a no.9 otherwise we might still have James Cunningham on the books.
I've no problem with Naughton having a run at the wingers role, I've no problem giving him a go at full back or even stand-off, as a 9, I really absolutely cannot see him being suited due to what I mentioned previously.