How many players have improved under Trent

[Harvies elbow]

Was just saying something on another thread where @strone33 brought up a good point.
How come Turbo can play like a champ in his first origin series but comes back a level playing for us.
You can say he played with better players etc but he had clear instructions that he was playing to.
Bringing me to how many players have improved under Trent?
In reality I can think of one.
Brian Kelly.
I just can't see that he has got the best out of the squad as individuals or as a team.
Comparing it with seibold and Cleary or Nathan Brown I say he's behind the field in getting the best out of them.
So who has improved?

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

Lane.

 

[manlyfan76]

Hodkinson. Lol

 

[Harvies elbow]

Lane.

Yes I agree with that. He has.
He's been let go so we'll not see the finished product.
And he'll be finished soon enough going to the rugby league scrapheap that is parramatta.

 

[ManWar]

Lewis Brown

 

[XV-1]

Hastings

 

[Harvies elbow]

Nate

 

[SeaEagle21]

AFB

But seriously it’s the team structures in both attack and defence that has stagnated. Last year we had a good attacking team that had points in them.

This year it has gone backwards, our middle fwds have been good but it has been a shocker in fielding a consistent team each week.

 

[ricardo]

All I can think of is:

AFBeast
Kapow
Api
Tanginoa
Lane
Winterstein
Siro
Parker
Suli
Kelly
MWright
The Turbos

Mind you many were coming off a low base.

 

[XV-1]

The Strippers in Gladstone

 

[ManWar]

Nate[/

Nate

A much improved ‘player’. Unfortunately not in the sense of the word your question is referring to.

 

[PONTIAN SEA EAGLE]

No one you can’t have standouts when there’s no attacking & defensive structures.There’s propably only 6 to 7 decent 1st graders.

 

[Harvies elbow]

All I can think of is:

AFBeast
Kapow
Api
Tanginoa
Lane
Winterstein
Siro
Parker
Suli
Kelly
MWright
The Turbos

Mind you many were coming off a low base.

AFB maybe but api and Marty were already up there.
The Tbros are naturals but Turbo showed how good he really can be in origin.
Kelly lane and sirro but the rest we knew little about or are up and down so I'd argue against Trent having a great influence.

 

[malroon]

zilch, zip, nadda, none , zero, and noone..

 

[Bradza]

Tapau is playing better now than when he came to Manly. Go and check the tapes.

 

[MadMarcus]

zilch, zip, nadda, none , zero, and noone..

Is that our defensive formation?

 

[malroon]

Is that our defensive formation?

YEP, trent taught us that..

 

[Harvies elbow]

YEP, trent taught us that..

And carty taught us even less

 

[Cameron]

Hastings 🙂

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

AFB maybe but api and Marty were already up there.

AFB hadn't even played first grade but has progressed to being a regular starting front rower and has played for both Tonga and New Zealand.
Api was not even a regular first grader at either Souths or Penrith.
Of course it's expected that young players will naturally improve their overall games as they mature and develop, but these two definitely have.
Also Tanginoa, was set for a break-out year before injury struck.
Paseka is developing nicely.
Actually of all our younger players, only Perrett has not shown distinct improvement yet. Some players probably just take a bit longer, we've seen glimpses of what he can do.