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

[dogslife]

A clutch player is also someone that can go missing for 75 minutes, but if his team is down by 4 with 5 minutes to go can be relied on to come up with something special

 

[Loudstrat]

Thanks for the updated descriptions. Being a non Rugby League term, I have no idea what one is. Sounds like someone who likes having their hand on testicles during a game - like the infamous "squirrel gripper".

In what sport is a clutch player? Bobsled?

 

[supercharger]

Clutch play. Every time I read that I think more about my old Hilux ute than footy. f*cking americanisms!

this again :roll: do you ever stop bitching?

 

[Canard]

There should be word filter for all the AFLism that have crept into the Gen Y speak "flag, list, best on ground, hooter etc.".

Same goes for Americanisms.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

In a couple of years I reckon Shaun Johnson will be one of the first names mentioned in these sort of discussions. The play in last seasons semi to set up the try that buried the Storm and put the Warriors into the GF was pretty much the textbook definition of a clutch play, as was the kick for the winning try vs the Tigers the week before.

 

[betcats]

In a couple of years I reckon Shaun Johnson will be one of the first names mentioned in these sort of discussions. The play in last seasons semi to set up the try that buried the Storm and put the Warriors into the GF was pretty much the textbook definition of a clutch play, as was the kick for the winning try vs the Tigers the week before.

Yep good call, I hadnt thought about Johnson.

 

[_Johnsy]

Well, I'll take Gallen over any other player if the game is "in the balance" at half time, and you just want the bloke most likely to have a consistent 40 minute impact and lift his team mates.

But, if you are down with 2 to go, hopefully you don't have to rely on him as your go to man as the Sharks have had to all too frequently.

In that situation, if you need a length of the field miracle, Hayne and Marshall are the clutch players I'd want.

On the other hand, if there is 2 to go and you are attacking the line and need the sensible play most likely to score, JT is the one I'd want.

If the siren has gone and you need a field goal slotted over, I'd want Soward.

Geez Lockyer was good in these situations- I'd take him in all those scenarios.

If on the other hand you are up by a point or 2 with a few minutes left, and want to make damn sure the opposition has limited chances to steal the game, I'd want Smith. Also Smith is the man if there was 10 to go and you needed 10 minutes of constructive attack to get back into the game.

Wouldn't be bad to have Gallen, Marshall, Hayne, Thurston, Soward (you'd fit him in somewhere with Marshall) and Smith in your team. I don't think you'd often need to come up with clutch plays though...

If your team made a break or was defending a break I'd want Slater as the support/cover player.

Best post of the thread.

 

[God-King Dean]

Been retired 8 years, but I'd still look to Blacklock to save us.

 

[Slackboy72]

There are no real clutch players left.
Lockyer was a clutch player, i.e. someone who consistently knows how to finish a game in the last 10 minutes when everyone else is panicking and exhausted.
The nearest to this would be Marshall. But he is so hit and miss.
Campese was clutch until he took an arrow to the knee.

 

[Loudstrat]

What about diff players? Whose a great diff player? Zeb Taia?

 

[joshie]

Smith, Thurston, Benji

 

[Ladmate]

In a couple of years I reckon Shaun Johnson will be one of the first names mentioned in these sort of discussions. The play in last seasons semi to set up the try that buried the Storm and put the Warriors into the GF was pretty much the textbook definition of a clutch play, as was the kick for the winning try vs the Tigers the week before.

Shaun Johnson is clutch, but that kick was extremely average. Tuqiri and Moltzen screwed up an easy catch and the easy recover.

 

[Jordan]

Eli Manning

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Shaun Johnson is clutch, but that kick was extremely average. Tuqiri and Moltzen screwed up an easy catch and the easy recover.

Disagree, he put the kick exactly where it needed to go, just short of the tryline with Inu running onto it. Yes Tuquiri and Moltzen should have done a better job of defusing it, but that doesn't make it an average kick.

 

[St_Jubbsy]

Jamie Soward 2010 prelim final....field goal.