Best Current "Clutch" Player ( With The Game In The Balance )

[pennywisealfie]

Not sure about today but all time has to be Darren Lockyer by a mile.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Not sure about today but all time has to be Darren Lockyer by a mile.

Best current.

 

[Noa]

Thurston great at winning games when he has smith and locky with him and gi attracting attention on his outside. Wake me when he comes through for the cowboys.

 

[hunters]

I'd have to say Benji. I remember 6 or 7 games in a row in 2011 (or 2010??) where the Tiges where out of it with 8 or 9 minutes to go and Benji got them home. However, they were usually in such trouble because he did f**k all for the first 72 minutes!

Have to laugh at all the usual whiney bitches kicking up over the term "clutch". Hope they realise all the other words aren't 'stralian either!

 

[firechild]

TBH, If a team was in a tight finish I'd want Jamie Lyon to be in the side. Lots of halfbacks are coming up because they kick field goals but for game breaking plays Lyon is quite good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1iOitOVugo

 

[jk13]

Has to b Dugan, all star champion

 

[seaeagle sam]

Having the word "league" in there twice is kind of redundant.

I know, I agonised over the grammar but just went with it.

 

[drago brelli]

Jim Courier talks about 'in the clutch', Courier is tiresome. Can't wait until he leaves the country. Roy Slaven who played for the Lithgow Shamrocks at five eighth was probably the best clutch player of all time. At least that what I heard HG Nelson say to him.

 

[slipperykinchela]

I'd have to say Benji. I remember 6 or 7 games in a row in 2011 (or 2010??) where the Tiges where out of it with 8 or 9 minutes to go and Benji got them home. However, they were usually in such trouble because he did f**k all for the first 72 minutes!

Have to laugh at all the usual whiney bitches kicking up over the term "clutch". Hope they realise all the other words aren't 'stralian either!

Obviously the 2010 prelim final, kicked out on the full with 6 to go.and last years semi against the warriors has been forgotten

 

[some11]

TBH, If a team was in a tight finish I'd want Jamie Lyon to be in the side. Lots of halfbacks are coming up because they kick field goals but for game breaking plays Lyon is quite good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1iOitOVugo

His try saver on Gillett in the PF stunned me.

I don't get why he doesn't play rep games anymore, he'd be regarded better than Inglis even though they're as lazy as each other.

 

[Big Pete]

Inglis dominated Lyon everytime they faced each other in Origin.

But yeah, that try saver on Gillett is the best I've seen - I don't know if I'd consider him a clutch player based on one flukey bounce but he's a damn good 'un.

 

[Jason Maher]

Greg Eastwood...

 

[Kakihara]

Thurston easily my pick at the moment. DCE will probably be that type of player aswell. I'd say best in the future will be Shaun Johnson but I might be biased (probably) but he did set up the game winning play in the tigers and storm matches and sparked our comeback in the GF setting up both tries and almost another. Benji is at his best when the game isn't in the clutch

Gotta agree with you here . Players with the ability to make something out of nothing are always gonna be the most clutch imo. That try he scored in the Broncos game where he stiff armed Thaiday before juking the Broncos back 3 is an example. Almost won us that game too with a field goal that dropped just short.

 

[hunters]

Obviously the 2010 prelim final, kicked out on the full with 6 to go.and last years semi against the warriors has been forgotten

Obviously the way they got there has been forgotten.

 

[Marshall_magic]

I would hate to have Benji or Farrah as clutch players, who can forget last years semi against the warriors ?up with 5 to go 30m out and they ran it on the last.
Best clutch goal kicker by a mile is soward, his kicking in origin, the 2010 gf and last years broncos semi was best since halligan.

Yeah he sucks, look at his efforts in the 2010 four nations final, what a hack.



moron.

 

[natheel]

as an eels fan i'm happy we have signed such a talented player in Sandow. lots of potential and has shown he can turn it on when he needs too

now combine that with Hayne at his best and it could be a devestating comination

but apart from them i would have to say

Thurston
Johnson
Foran

 

[billy2]

Scot Dureau.
I followed Catalans a bit last year, and he snatched 5 or 6 victories from the jaws of defeat.

 

[typicalfan]

The thread isn't about a pressure game, it's about pressure situations when the game is in the balance. Souths were down & out early on in that round 26 game. Sandow hasn't played internationals, SOO or even NRL finals, but he can make or break a team's fortunes.

No doubt Marshall can be one of the NRL's best in the clutch, but as Tim Sheens said about the way the Tigers play, "they keep me young, but they make me old".

 

[Card Shark]

With lockyer gone, it would be Thurston.

After this season, I'm hoping it's Carney. We have had a tendency over the last few years to lose games we were in a strong position to win, so I hope Carney can change that.

 

[woodyk2]

Foran