You guys seems to be harping on about his football skills, yet forget the most important thing - mentally he's as weak as piss.
He's back now because he was homesick. :roll:
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/sport/nrl/story/0,26799,25542791-5006066,00.html
Tim cannot handle the pressure of day to day life, let alone being an NRL player. Move on. :arrow:
I don`t think I have. I think the reason that Soward improved his game so much is that he is intrinsically a very good player. He had it in him. I don`t think Tim Smith does. I think Tim Smith peaked for ONE year, and that was it. Even in his debut year I thought he was over-rated, and I was waiting for the big improvement to happen in the following year. Well, it just never did. I`m not interested at all in his mental state or his personality. Purely on his playing ability and his playing style, I wouldn`t have him and I don`t rate him. Never did. That doesn`t make me an idiot or a goose or a traitor or anything else; it`s just my opinion and always has been. Even before any of his drunken misdemeanours, I didn`t like him much as a player. I still think he was grossly over-rated.
http://www.smh.com.au/text/articles/2009/05/24/1243103433257.htmlTim Smith is back in the country. The former Parramatta halfback, who left the NRL following the revelation that he had bipolar disorder, flew home before Wigan's weekend Super League game because of what the club said was a family illness. Wigan have a Challenge Cup quarter-final against Salford on Friday, but the club says it is not pressuring Smith to return for that. "Tim flew home for personal reasons," Wigan coach Brian Noble said. "He's got our full support."
Yeah but you don't rate Fui either because he's too "one dimensional"
That`s right, I did think that Fui was very ordinary and one dimensional, but he`s proved me to be gloriously wrong about him this year. He`s been a sensation!
That`s right, I did think that Fui was very ordinary and one dimensional, but he`s proved me to be gloriously wrong about him this year. He`s been a sensation!
You are right!! love your avatar ](*,)maybe if timmy clicks his magical red ruby slippers together, he'll come home...theres no place like home
i heard that tim smith is very keen on making a return to the NRL
but it wont be with the eels.
speculation yes, its been mentioned on this board a long time ago but i just realized you joined today
Tim Smith is a class player and would go well in any club, he and campese together would be a great halves pairing.oh haha sorry guys. do u think the raiders would be a nice fit
for smithy?? timmy and campese in the halves
Except Fui has been no different and has been one of our best player EVERY single year since 2005.
I completely disagree. I think this year is far and away his best.
Tim Smith is a class player and would go well in any club, he and campese together would be a great halves pairing.
Not sure why parra don't sit down with him and give him another chance see if he wants to come back, theu can put conditions in his contract regarding behaviour, alcohol etc.
If you told me to rank tim smith amoung NRL halfbacks on skill alone (not mental state or anything else like compatibility to a team), Time would be below Prince and Thurston, and maybe Sandow only.
Tim has one of the best kicking games I have seen, his passing game was amazing but it was probably his running game which put guys liek Prince and Thurston ahead of him. Tim at his peak would be better than Orford, Cronk, Kimmorley, Barret (as a halfback), Wallace, Mullens, Pearce etc. Tim downfall has always been consistancey and his mental issues, which inevidably effecting his football. He was very much a confidence player and needed to be in a good place to be playing good footy.
I would be happy if we brought back timmy because he has more weapons in his armour then anyplayer we currently have in our team (including KK), but his history would stop me from paying anything significant for him. If you look purley at his game he could be on of the best halfbacks going around but reaching his potential is his problem atm and we only see glipses of it. I don't think his over-rated, people just expected to much to early from a young kid.
oh haha sorry guys. do u think the raiders would be a nice fit
for smithy?? timmy and campese in the halves
I think Tim`s downfall - apart from inconsistencey, was the fact that he did not have a running game AT ALL. EVER! And so, because he never put the defence in two minds by sometimes running, sometimes kicking, sometimes passing, they always knew that whenever he got the ball, he was either going to pass or kick. In the whole time he was with Parra, he never looked like rectifying this problem. I can handle the fact that he couldn`t tackle. But he became so predictable in the end, that all the opposition had to do was charge up on him so that his kicks were hurried, or mark the players outside him. Forget about talent. Talent is irrelevant.
I loved his kicking and passing game when it was 'on'. It was magical. But that does not make him a great half-back.