Warriors ‘getting worse’
Former Dragons premiership winner Jamie Soward is tipping another sorry year for the Warriors, and has questioned the overall direction of the club. Speaking on The NRL Podcast, Soward said he sees the Warriors ‘‘getting worse’’ in 2020 after missing the top eight last season. He also called for positional changes in the halves, citing young-gun Chanel Harris-Tavita as the long term answer. ‘‘I think Kodi Nikorima can be like Connor Watson [for the Knights], he can come off the bench with that speed around the ruck and play anywhere,’’ Soward said. ‘‘Harris-Tavita has to be there. He went through a tough year last season and did a great job steering them around when Blake Green was out hurt. Overall I think they [will] get worse. They just haven’t got much depth.’’
From one great to another, Pero Cameron says he’ll do all he can to get Steven Adams into a Tall Blacks jersey under his watch. And if anybody can, maybe, just maybe, Pero can. Yesterday’s confirmation that Cameron – the finest Kiwi basketballer of a golden Kiwi generation and arguably the greatest to pull on the national singlet
– had been named to succeed the departed
Paul Henare as interim head coach of the Tall
Blacks certainly sets up the tantalising prospect of
Adams ending his selfimposed exile. It remains a long shot, given the Kiwi NBA star’s clear reluctance thus far to step into the international arena, but it is a widely held view that if anybody can twist the Oklahoma City Thunder star’s arm, it would be the man they call PC. It is well known Adams has huge respect for Cameron.