ANALYSIS: Matt Burton has everything an NRL star could want but he can still have so much more
There's a few players across the league that can really launch them, but nobody does it like Burton and as high as they look on television the sensation hits very differently in person, as it did in Canterbury's epic 15-14 victory over North Queensland on Sunday night.
He got another in golden point, and it looked deadly until North Queensland fullback Tom Chester made the catch of the day. Some guys have what it takes when it counts and Burton has it, because he has everything, but he can still have so much more.The challenge for him is not finding his gifts, but taming and mastering his prodigious abilities, to play with control – not of the team, but of himself.
Wighton only settled into five-eighth in his eighth season in first grade and has never been paired with a halfback for longer than two seasons. But to get there, Burton has his own situational challenges to overcome. Outside of Reed Mahoney, he lacks a little support in the playmaking department.
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