he has probably been kept out of the Lions Premiership team by Zorko and then any of Lester, Coleman, McKenna and Starcevich. Will be a definite upgrade on Heppell and Kelly.
I think injuries had a lot to do with the decline of those players, look a Heffernan in 2000 highlights regularly kicks it 50m, when he came back to us a few years later couldn’t kick over 40m was absolutely his limit.
Injuries definitely were a factor. Especially when they came back to us.
But they weren’t when they went to their other teams.
When you’re an average player in a great team, you can look pretty good playing your defined role.
Add the same player into a rabble of a team and they pretty much have to do more and expose more of their weaknesses.
By the time we got them back, they were already broken.
I caught up with a friend that is a massive Lions fan and he really knows his football. He felt that Prior should have been starting in the Lions best 18 and he feels that Prior is only now getting to his best football. He feels that Prior will be a cult figure at the Bombers. 60m kicks are just the beginning.
That’s good enough for me, where do I sign up for the Prior Express.