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The best thing about tonight is no matter who loses the neutrals win!
Yeah a much lesser Cooper Cronk.Cleary is a good player but even at club level he is overrated. If he was out for the season you would still have Penrith being favourites for the comp and they don’t look like they lose a step without him. That just isn’t really true of the other great halfbacks.
Penriths team is just that f**king good and whilst most will scoff at this there are a bunch of halfbacks currently in the league who could slot in there and the team would be just as good.
He won the Brad Fittler medal in 2020
Latrell hasn't played a game since the last series win in 2021. A few other poor selections has cost the side as a whole.
He was Man of the Match game 2 last year,
So that is series win in 2018
Series win in 2019
NSW Best player in a series loss in 2020
Series win in 2021
Man of the match game 2 2022...
That doesn't scream rep failure especially at such a young age. Throw in a World Cup win too
old mate is counting a series win when Chin man missed the decider…
So Munster doesn't get last year as a series win?
Nope
Atleast you are fair,
Slater still has his series wins though in the same situation
you have to take part in both wins in my view, although I’ll make allowances if you only play in the decider but play an integral role e.g. Pearce’s match winning pass in 2019.
Similar to guys like Issac Luke not really being a premiership winner since he didn’t play in the GF. He was absolutely a member of a premiership winning side, but I would think it still eats at him that he missed the actual day
GF comparison is spot on. I see it as anyone that played in the series is part of it, mainly because even if you win 3-0 injuries and suspension always force changes across the squad
It’s a team achievement instead of an individual highlight. Cleary is a member of 3 origin series winning sides, he just hasn’t won 3 series himself.
the fact this also means I can take a series win off merkin Munster is great
Which was my point that he hasn't been a total dud, better team selections and a few of NSW guys would have a handy series win tally
Hughes is more important than Luai if they want to grub it up