Yeah nah.
I’d love him here at Cronulla alongside Hynes but good luck getting him out of the Roosters.
Personally I don’t really see him pairing well with Hynes in a way that doesn’t take Hynes backwards.
I'd rather spend money to put better platform in front of him and better weapons outside him than to take the ball out of his hands.
He doesn’t need or want to partner with someone who takes over any of his responsibilities and Walker is very much a halfback IMO
And we don’t need a 5/8 who needs to be coddled by a ball playing 13 to succeed, which Walker currently does.
I'm keen to keep the Dally M player of the year in 7 where he wants to play, playing how he wants to play.
Moylan is a good
stylistic fit for Hynes. I still would have liked another kick or two from Moylan a game just to spread the kick pressure a little more, this being something I think Moylan could have done where just being better at everything is probably a tall order.
There are a lot of NRL 5/8s I think Hynes could pair well with and Walker isn't one of them.
There is some talk on here about taking pressure off of Hynes more but the possession numbers from last season suggest Walker may struggle to do that
Hynes+Moylan 62+45 = 107
Walker+Keary 49+37 = 86
Given we actually run more 1 pass hitups than Roosters the 'stats' suggest Walker isn't going to do much ball handling to take pressure off of Hynes. That could just be a system thing though, especially if their forwards pass a lot more than ours.
In terms of kicks
Hynes 12
Keary 9
Walker 7
Moylan 3
So he probably could take some kicks off Hynes.
And while he isn't our most popular player currently Kennedy also already does quite a bit of our ballplaying - 2nd of fullbacks for linebreak assists, and well clear of Tedesco (although Teddy is waaayyy better still and makes far more of his own line breaks).
Walker would fit us a bit better if we did move to a more run heavy fullback like Miller.