So it's squarely Hayne's fault that Parramatta get smashed 11 on 11. Sound logic here.
lol @ injury plagued, that's fair defense for his horrible showing in 2 of his recent 3 games and puts him in good stead in 10 days time huh? And yeah, Dugan did so well covering Farah and Lui recently and Hayne so poorly covering JT that it makes complete sense to want Dugan there for those JT and Lockyer kicks.
Dugan has Hayne's strengths covered? Dugan can draw two defenders and put the ball on the chest of his outside man like Hayne does consistently? Dugan can slot himself into the backline, hold the ball out in front and cause defenses to collapse? Dugan can put a line runner outside their man with a pass? Dugan can bomb teams into submission from 30 and 40 out? Dugan has anything resembling Hayne's long kicking game? The only thing Dugan can almost match Hayne in is ball running and chips/grubbers, even then he's no Hayne.
Hayne is the reason why they are a man short in the first place, so of course it is his fault, nobody made Hayne act like an idiot and headbutt. What if that happens in the 70th minute in origin and we go without our fullback with the game on the line? Hayne is an immense talent but unless he gets that rubbish out of his game he will have ??? over him.
2 of Dugans last 3 games have been pretty good. The City Country he was good without being spectacular, and against the Storm he was one of the Raiders better players despite a couple of poor attempted tackles.
Having said all that I still feel Hayne could justifiably be disappointed but don't even pretend to think Hayne is even close to Dugan in terms of defensive positioning or under the high ball, because its a non event.
Hayne has a better kicking game, better passing game and he is stronger but Dugan is in the right spot at the right time more often than not. Dugan is not in the team to kick, Soward is the best general kicker in the game and Pearce is not too bad either.
