Posted August 24, 2015 08:05
· last edited August 24, 2015 08:06
At this stage, Eager is a known quantity to 'football' in NZ so I suspect if he is looking at him, he will already know and then over a gig.
He would be a reasonable CB option. Having said that, someone else said he has AU citizenship and other clubs have not picked him up....
I dunno, I don't really buy the "no one else has picked him up so he's not A League quality" argument. It might just be that no other club has needed another CB, or have been able to find better options when they've been looking, but that doesn't mean he isn't good enough. Especially as CBs usually take a few more years to mature into the role than say, strikers or wingers. I mean, Manny came from state league football in his 20s. No one else had picked him up and although his form wasn't the best last year he is definitely a decent A League RB. Or another example would be EU players in European football. You wouldn't dismiss an EU national playing in say Holland or Portugal as not good enough for the EPL/La Liga/Bundesliga because no club from those comps has picked him up yet.
I'm not saying Eagar is good enough necessarily - I personally don't know much about him, haven't seen him play - but a lot of people seem to rate him and the South Melbourne fans think he's quality. I just don't think he should be written off because he hasn't picked up a full pro contract yet.