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Message: [QUOTE="Ari Gold, post: 2494590, member: 1917"] [b]Re: Rumour - Peter Wallace returning to the Panthers?[/b] First off, I don't necessarily buy that Hook would reward good showings in training. This is hook, he makes a conservative coach look like a rebel in comparison. Prince and Wallace are safe options, Griffin loves safe. More over, Hunt is our bench hooker. Presumably he trains each week to do that job, so frankly I don't know how he's supposed to wow the pants off Hook as a half prospect. As for Hunt, no he hasn't demanded he be selected in first grade and he hasn't dominated in a way that forces the coach's hand. But frankly, neither has Prince this year. Hunt is young and could grow to become an important player for us in the future, Prince is none of these things. As such, I think the emphasis should be on Prince to demand selection and play at a level that warrants us holding back the development of a younger half. He's not yet he still gets picked ahead of Hunt because he's a safer option and as I said, Griffin loves safe. The problem I have with your argument about making players outplay the incumbents is that it means a guy who might have what it takes but needs the 8-10 games to get the confidence to do that isn't going to get that because we have a better performing, safer but limited alternative in Prince or Wallace around who will be selected instead. Look at some of the halves that have popped up since 2011 - Adam Reynolds, Josh Reynolds, Daly Cherry-Evans, Shaun Johnson, Albert Kelly. Not all of them in their first 3-4 games showed the kind of form that would necessarily displace Wallace if he were a member of their respective teams, but because their clubs didn't have Wallace they got a prolonged opportunity in first grade to see if they could grow into the players their clubs want them to be. I get why you want Hunt to have to outplay a Wallace/Prince like incumbent, but I think that kind of insistence of strict meritocracy is robbing us of the chance to find our own DCE or Reynolds etc. [/QUOTE]

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