Good call. Shades of Wado on Cronk. Eliminated all of Katoa's time. He's still a class act though, that little fekker. Kept coming back and played the 80 out.Trying to figure out how people think someone who for about 60 minutes led a headless chook attack was best on field?
3 - Brailey by miles
2 - Toby
1 - Wilton who stopped Katoa like no other has for months.
I gave him 0.5 for that passage of play that led to his first try. He was calling the shots and moved the opposition around and set himself up.Trying to figure out how people think someone who for about 60 minutes led a headless chook attack was best on field?
Trying to figure out how people think someone who for about 60 minutes led a headless chook attack was best on field?
3 - Brailey by miles
2 - Toby
1 - Wilton who stopped Katoa like no other has for months.
There are 2 narratives at play though. The other is it actually seems to be he's had a 6 or 7/10 game and is being lauded as having played a 9 or10/10 game. We'll call that the apologists narrative.attack wasn’t great, but I feel like his halves partner was a lot to blame for that. Two tries, a try involvement and a try assist along with 26 tackles, some important ones thrown in, get him the points. Don’t let the narrative get in the way though.
This.There are 2 narratives at play though. The other is it actually seems to be he's had a 6 or 7/10 game and is being lauded as having played a 9 or10/10 game. We'll call that the apologists narrative.
He also bombed a try for himself and is slower than a rocket trip to Uranus.
He didn't play bad, was in fact improved in some ways. He wasn't the best player though. He wasn't top 3.
A lot of sympathy votes.
The game wasn't impressive overall. The Sharks could only really get traction by attacking a rookie winger where all 4 tries were scored on his side.
2 things can be true. Hynes was significantly improved last night (off a low base recently). He did score and create tries. He did ice the game with the try at 14-12. He needed to because the miss on Herbie was very poor (as were the following 4 misses by others) which brought them back into the game. He also dropped the ball with the line wide open. His kicking game was better than previously.
Overall, a solid 7 out of 10. He needs to build on that. This team needs him at his best to do anything. He is the marquee player and the expectations are higher. It comes with territory. This season he hasn't been close to delivering to expectations. He has been passive. He can change it through performance.