Hasbag wrote:Don't rate Trueman personally. Has a few half decent touches here and there but every player does something good once in a while (Lolohea just made a break from a kick return, for example). He manages to escape any criticism because he is still young. Might go on to be a great player but Cas won't win anything in the next few years with him as one of their starting halfs unless he improves massively.
Edit: Kind of proved my point with the above post. As soon as somebody has criticised him the only defending argument is to mention his age.
He’s certainly not the finished article, that’s for sure. But the problem is that playing at half back often takes experience, but you can only get experience if a club is willing to give it to you (particularly with the absence of a reserve team at the moment).
How long is it since we produced a top class British half back in this country? Perhaps we need to be playing the long game (as I think Cas are with Trueman) and accepting that young halves need experience before they will be top halves.
