Fluffy
Journey Man
Disagree watching Ballin in trials well before his debut he was a standout in the field.
I don't know where this myth comes from that ballin has no attack, he is pivitol to how we attack and go forward.
If we didn't have two gun halves and the likes of Jamie Lyon and Glenn stewart then I can see a need for someone like ballin to go forward more. The key to our attack however is quick and quality service from dummy half, teams figured this out so try and stifle him which is why he had to run more last year
Well you missed half of it, you are co,paring game to game not age to age, in which case as I said Hodges s 80 - 90% of Ballin. Wait 3 years and Hodges could be damn close to Ballin.
Missing his lack of attack baffles me, last year was Ballin's best attacking year since Le Strange by miles and as you said without a Glen Stewart for most of the year.
We now have this guy known as one of the best offloaders in the game called Mateo, surely you would expect us to exploit this.