Blair

[Tiger05]

Geez he was good tonight.

 

[Vic Mackey]

Has been very the past few weeks

 

[Marshall_magic]

I thought he was the best on the field tonight. Although the usual lynch mob will still bag him using nothing more than his stats for the game.

 

[Shanghai Charlie]

FFS how standards have slipped on what we expect from 500K a year player. He was standard first grade at best last night and, yes, his stats reflect that too. And, yes, for a forward, stats do tell a pretty clear story.

Iosefa was even worse. At one point we had given away four penalties at the 55min mark and he had given away three of them - and he came on as a reserve!

Tuquiri and Moltzen - f**k off.

 

[BuffaloRules]

He is going better, but he is no Ellis...

 

[Tiger05]

FFS how standards have slipped on what we expect from 500K a year player. He was standard first grade at best last night and, yes, his stats reflect that too. And, yes, for a forward, stats do tell a pretty clear story.

Iosefa was even worse. At one point we had given away four penalties at the 55min mark and he had given away three of them - and he came on as a reserve! Overplayed his hand terribly at the ruck and kicking being selfish and trying to impress the coach rather than playing for the team. I can't abide by that. f**k off.

Tuquiri and Moltzen - f**k off.

Your a harsh marker.

Blair was good last night. Yes if we paid 500k we overpaid but I think on that performance he is a better player than Fulton and Heighno. He isn't in Ellis's class.

Iosefa was terrible. It looks like he has some ability but the one thing that pisses me off about Farah is the hog plays that he comes up with at times. Iosefa was heaps worse with a lot less ability.

Tuqiri is playing pretty well but Utai is a better player than him. If we resign Tuqiri it has to be on reduced dollars.

 

[N.C.]

Which plays of Iosefa are you referring to? There was one occasion where he kicked it on the 4th tackle that seemed a clear mistake... but other than that, what?

Tuqiri looked slow, but it also looked like Lawrence handed him the ball a fraction early on pretty much every occasion they spread it wide. He did well to cross for his try, but he should have bagged at least a double...

Anyone still whinging about Blair should take a teaspoon of wet cement. He's on big coin - but so what? As it happens, we can afford it...

 

[Marshall_magic]

FFS how standards have slipped on what we expect from 500K a year player. He was standard first grade at best last night and, yes, his stats reflect that too. And, yes, for a forward, stats do tell a pretty clear story.

Iosefa was even worse. At one point we had given away four penalties at the 55min mark and he had given away three of them - and he came on as a reserve! Overplayed his hand terribly at the ruck and kicking being selfish and trying to impress the coach rather than playing for the team. I can't abide by that. f**k off.

Tuquiri and Moltzen - f**k off.

He pulled off 2 plays that saved tries, the tackle on Ryles and cleaning up after the Widdop chip and chase. What will his stats show for that? 1 tackle, that's it. If he ran 4th man in to a tackle his stats would get the same boost. If he doesn't stop either of those tries, we probably lose last night. He was dominant in defence, and was consistently putting the storm players on their backs and slowing down the play the balls (again, not represented in his stats).

 

[Das Hassler]

He is going better, but he is no Ellis...

yeah...and Ellis was no "Ellis" before coming to the Tigers...he will tell you himself that he was just a solid defender with no attacking game previous to coming here

 

[bubblesunlimited]

Blair is just like the tigers at the moment, slowly simmering. Patience my friends.

 

[Shanghai Charlie]

He pulled off 2 plays that saved tries, the tackle on Ryles and cleaning up after the Widdop chip and chase. What will his stats show for that? 1 tackle, that's it. If he ran 4th man in to a tackle his stats would get the same boost. If he doesn't stop either of those tries, we probably lose last night. He was dominant in defence, and was consistently putting the storm players on their backs and slowing down the play the balls (again, not represented in his stats).

After watching the game again it seems I've given Blair too much credit. You can count the number of dominant tackles on half of a hand, the tackle on Ryles was not a try saver as there was support there and the clean up was not a try saver. Blair is a lazy grub who only comes to life when we are pressuring inside the 22 and with goalline defence. His recovery is the worst of any of our forwards and the kind of guy I wouldn't like to be in the trenches with. Too many sets of six in attack and defence he just disappears and is always seen 'waiting' for his hitup behind three or four others.

 

[Shanghai Charlie]

Which plays of Iosefa are you referring to? There was one occasion where he kicked it on the 4th tackle that seemed a clear mistake... but other than that, what?

Tuqiri looked slow, but it also looked like Lawrence handed him the ball a fraction early on pretty much every occasion they spread it wide. He did well to cross for his try, but he should have bagged at least a double...

Anyone still whinging about Blair should take a teaspoon of wet cement. He's on big coin - but so what? As it happens, we can afford it...

Just watched him again and two poor kicks turning the ball over. Gets very lateral out of dummy half and a few times his runners didn't know what he was doing but didn't cost. But have to say his service was better than I thought and happy to edit out too much criticism. Not so for Blair who was even worse than I thought.

 

[N.C.]

After watching the game again it seems I've given Blair too much credit. You can count the number of dominant tackles on half of a hand, the tackle on Ryles was not a try saver as there was support there and the clean up was not a try saver. Blair is a lazy grub who only comes to life when we are pressuring inside the 22 and with goalline defence. His recovery is the worst of any of our forwards and the kind of guy I wouldn't like to be in the trenches with. Too many sets of six in attack and defence he just disappears and is always seen 'waiting' for his hitup behind three or four others.

This kind of talk is where you start to lose me, mate...

Well, to be honest, it's back a bit from that.

But all this rubbish about "the trenches"? Please.

Spare us your lazy analogies...

 

[T.T]

blair had a good game but still not brilliant. i would like to see more offloads, and none of those shuffle runs which he and heighno do

 

[N.C.]

Just watched him again and two poor kicks turning the ball over. Gets very lateral out of dummy half and a few times his runners didn't know what he was doing but didn't cost. But have to say his service was better than I thought and happy to edit out too much criticism. Not so for Blair who was even worse than I thought.

Thought he didn't do too badly or a bloke who has just been brought into the side and who hasn't played a lot of first grade in the last - ooooh - say 12 or 13 weeks... As they say in the trenches, the fundamentals are pretty good. Room for improvement but it's a solid start.

 

[Das Hassler]

Another thing they say in the trenches......."who farted?!"

 

[Pistol_Pete]

Blair was very good last night.
Wow he didn't make 87 5th man in tackles like commentator's pets hindmarsh, fitzgibbon, stagg or parker, but the 2 efforts mentioned above saved the game.

Stop listening to senile spastics like warren and hadley all week and stop turning the game into some sort of f**king Moneyball. 1 kick of blair's got us 2 points. End of f**king story. Stick that up your moneyball abacus.

And not once did the commentators mention we are also missing our fullback and hooker and we're also missing Ellis (and them cronk). 3 major players out of both sides yet everyone wants to big up gutsy melbourne when we were missing just as many as them.

f**k them and their icy 3rd world shit tip where they watch geniused irish spastics in singlets play some sort of medieval village all in watched by victorians, inbred Tasmanians and semtex carrying irish.

 

[Ron's_Mate]

f**k them and their icy 3rd world shit tip where they watch geniused irish spastics in singlets play some sort of medieval village all in watched by victorians, inbred Tasmanians and semtex carrying irish.

:lol::lol::lol:

 

[The Charlatan]

Blair was very good last night.
Wow he didn't make 87 5th man in tackles like commentator's pets hindmarsh, fitzgibbon, stagg or parker, but the 2 efforts mentioned above saved the game.

Stop listening to senile spastics like warren and hadley all week and stop turning the game into some sort of f**king Moneyball. 1 kick of blair's got us 2 points. End of f**king story. Stick that up your moneyball abacus.

And not once did the commentators mention we are also missing our fullback and hooker and we're also missing Ellis (and them cronk). 3 major players out of both sides yet everyone wants to big up gutsy melbourne when we were missing just as many as them.

f**k them and their icy 3rd world shit tip where they watch geniused irish spastics in singlets play some sort of medieval village all in watched by victorians, inbred Tasmanians and semtex carrying irish.

This got a laugh or two out of me .

 

[Tigers Tale]

Blair did put in against the Storm but I think that is part of the reason why, it was against his old team. What it does show is he does have the potential and it also shows he can be a lazy at other times. If he defends like that every game he starts to earn his money.

What that Storm game did show me was the value of Fulton. He came off with maybe 15 minutes to go and that is when our defence was stretched to the limit, for me the old scissor muscle was going a thousand miles an hour. Geez he does some tidying up. I have heard it said many times on this forum if he had another 10kg on the frame he would be an absolute champion.