He wasn't my man of the match as he made 26 tackles when he normally makes 35 tackles and he needs to improve his play at marker, it's been sloppy lately.
George gave a penalty away and dropped the ball in last 5 minutes which could have been costly, it put us under unnecessary pressure.
George made 16 hit ups for 117m. Normally when George makes 16 hit ups he would make 150metres,
Imo George is playing solid but I have high standards from what I've seen him do last year. This year his form hasn't been as good.
In the first half last night George only made 5 hit ups which isn't enough compared to other props in the game. But in the second half he redeemed himself.
GI was good and would be in my top 5, but not my top 3. GI gave away a silly penalty as well at a crucial stage last night.
I already gave my top 3 of Lowe, Reynolds and Grant. Our next best players were Grevsmuhl and GI imo.
Why do you say hmmmmm for? What is your 3-2-1 sorry if you don't mind me asking?
I don't go in for the 3-2-1 thing myself but I do read it and find other people's views interesting. I don't judge 3-2-1 because lots of times I am not anywhere near a computer and I decided if you can't do every week then don't do it at all.
As I said somewhere else 'lies, damn lies then statics'. I don't go in for statistics myself because I have a different understanding to things like, what constitutes a tackle e.g. if three guys tackle an halfback does each guy get a tick in his stats box, if so, is that tick the same value of Isaac Luke's' man on man tackle of Merrin when Merrin was fifteen metres from the Souths try line. Is a fullback/winger, in the kick return scenario's metres as valuable as Goodwin's taking it up into the defense from his own try line - big difference really. Who takes these stats, how reliable are they i.e. even the referees can't get things right, why put any credence to some one in the stands with a pencil in one hand an a beer in the other?
Clearly you and I have different views on certain position roles e.g your very impressed with Lowe's performance last night and rightly so, he had a very good game but he has always defended stoutly and he has always been very willing to take the ball up, in fact I have often commented on his refusal to pass the ball, maybe on coaches instructions, how would I know, I point out to you - this is what he's paid for, this is his job, to tackle and run the hard yards - both Burgess's did the same with no less effect or enthusiasm then either Lowe or Grant.
The thing that really really pisses me off with both Lowe and Grant is they both refuse to learn from their mistakes, they continually give away penalties in the play the ball area. As far as I'm concerned that disqualifies each of them from scoring any points the same as if your sin binned in the Daily Messenger points thing. Hmmmmm ok.
Don't misunderstand me - if holding down a player that little bit extra stops a try from being scored against us well, there may be a case, maybe ....different question perhaps.
