biffer wrote:joe soap wrote:Friday Knight Lights wrote:If it was that easy to get 1000 metres at this point in the season more than 1 person would have done it to be fair. No need to talk Kinghorn down - he is a generational talent - will he become a generational player? We'll see.
I'm not talking the player down, I am trying to talk down some of the usual ludicrous hype on here every time the next messiah is apparently sighted. No so long ago he was touted as the life time answer to Edinburgh's 10 problem, more nonsense hype.
He is a very good player indeed against lesser teams, hence the big yardage (how many played against the Russians or LI 3rds or Kings all twice ? How many yards would a Hogg have made? Before you hype him like this, that (ie Hogg) is the measure
BTW generational talents become generational player barring injury - talent includes the top 2 inches and applying it (and no reason to believe Kinghorn doesn't do that)
Russians not included as that stat was for pro14. Most talk on this thread is whether or not he should be in a training squad, not pushing Hogg out of the way.
Hadn't realised Krasny Yar and London Irish had joined the Pro14..
Clearly the Kings are weaker, but if you take off the total metres made in those two games and add on an 'average' assumption to take back to like for like games played, his metres will still be ahead of Piutau by some distance I'd expect.