Tedesco: Walker will turn out to be a terrific NRL halfback

Sydney Roosters skipper James Tedesco insists Sam Walker will turn out to be a terrific NRL halfback however has expressed his willpower to get the aspect’s new-look backbone firing.

Walker was dropped three weeks in the past and Joey Manu switched from centre to five-eighth to companion fullback Tedesco, No.7 Luke Keary and hooker Brandon Smith within the backbone.

They’d two wins collectively however had been poor in Sunday’s 20-6 loss to North Queensland.

Tedesco stated after the match the backbone members wanted to seek out their combos within the subsequent month however added he was there to assist Manu adapt to his new function.

“I really feel we’re related with how we play our footy. We’re each runners of the ball but when we will mix and make house for one another that’s after we could cause some complications for the opposition,” Tedesco instructed AAP.

“We’ve not simply began from scratch. There are instincts there from us being across the ruck collectively when he was at centre the place now we have mixed.

“How Joey runs out the again of shapes and the way he runs sq., that takes a little bit of getting used to. It’s all about getting the reps at coaching. You have a look at most groups, there’s an organising half which for us is Kez (Keary) and a operating 5 eighth … which I feel goes to go well with our model.”

Tedesco stated Walker had taken his dropping “rather well”.

“There’s nonetheless loads of time on Sammy’s arms and all of us consider he has all of the traits to turn out to be a terrific NRL halfback,” he stated.

“I feel it helps that Joey is a Golden Boot winner coming in to exchange him and never a brand new up-and-coming child.

“Sammy is aware of he has to return and work on just a few issues. You may neglect he’s solely 20 years of age. You have a look at the good halves now like Nathan Cleary and Daly Cherry-Evans and within the early levels of their profession they had been nonetheless discovering their ft, however for our workforce in the intervening time we’re blissful having Joey and Keary steering the ship.

“I really feel as if our combos are going to get higher and I’m excited to work on it at coaching and hopefully see leads to video games.”

The Roosters’ backbone has been hit or miss, just like the workforce’s performances.

“Yearly I’ve been right here we do not begin a season setting the world on fireplace. We begin very cold and warm and after we hit the Origin interval we begin to discover our ft earlier than ending the yr strongly,” Tedesco stated.

“Clearly we wished to begin the yr at our greatest, and we’ve not performed that, however we all know there’s a number of enchancment in us.”

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