wixfjord wrote: ↑February 21st, 2023, 10:14 am
I don't see much logic for Soroka to head to Munster given their backrow is almost as stacked as ours and I think it's the wrong call for him to cut and run now.
But if he has been given gametime assurances and a good contract then good luck to him.
I'd love to know the reason we have barely seen him all season (besides injury) and what has been going on behind the scenes.
It's possible that Baird's move to 6 has spooked him a bit and with POM potentially on the downward slope Munster see him as a replacement blindside.
It's a shame because you don't produce players with that athletic profile often.
Perhaps Leinster seen the move was on the cards from a long way out and decided the game time available was better used given to guys who were were going to be here for the longer haul. Trying to think back over the season though I can't remember too many occasions when I thought "you know what,that time we've given to 'X' should have gone to Soroka". I remember a couple of times I was pretty confident he would get a shout but it turned out he was injured (he seemed to be injured quite a lot this year).
Thinking about it now there seems to be an air of inevitability about this. In the past we've had some aging back row guys heading towards the door and you would be exited about someone like Soroka filing there place, but it's hard to see where they are going to fit in now. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to keep him and I hope he stays but unless there's a raft of injuries it's hard to see where he's going to get a decent run of games. Our backrow especially is so young and there are just so many good players there.
I think Leinster coaches, especially after Covid and with Nucifoa signaling that Ireland is running out of places to put players, have some hard choices to make. For example home good is Saroka "going" to be? Not how good "might" he be (I think we all know he could be very good). I mean do you decide to keep him and let someone like Deegan or Penny go (assume they have reached their pinnacle) in the hope that he'll surpass them? Tough, tough choices ahead. At the end of the day they are not Pokemon, we can't "catch 'em all", we all know that places are now tight, so if anyone thinks we should have done everything we could to keep him, you might ask yourself "who should go instead?". And for me anyway.......that's a toughie!
