Dude, oldmancraigy, nice to see you are showing your support for a club legend. :thumb
And in fact he is still one of the greatest goal-kickers the NRL has seen.
How many goals has he kicked from the sidelines this year, hmmm? He's rated by every expert in the game as one of the great goal-kickers; i.e. in the top 3 goal-kickers in Rugby League at the moment.
Also, he is not in the side just because of his goal-kicking.....if that were the case, he would have been booted for Krisnan Inu a long time ago (Inu is almost as good a goal-kicker). You are just making up sh*t that he is the 'golden boy' and is untouchable, that's bloody ridiculous and you know it, Burt is a club legend and just last week we were saying how great he was.
Also, a crap season? Are you bloody serious? He was the favourite to win an Origin winger spot early on in the year, he was playing and goal-kicking that well. Get your facts right before you say bull about a legend. He's been injured in the latter half of the season, but he has still been solid, and has still been one of the best goal-kickers this year by far; how many times a game he kicks 5 from 5 or 6 from 6 when half those goals are from the sidelines is just incredible. Stop spouting crap.
Also, it was NOT his fault in Newcastle, we have been over this several times; both those goals were extremely difficult, and he quite obviously got unlucky. Even Michael Gordon and Johnathon Thurston would have missed those goals, because guess what, they were in DRIVING RAIN and TORRID WIND, one was from the sideline, and one was from about 50 metres out. You can't blame him for missing those when most goal-kickers, including the top-tier ones, would have missed them.
Honestly, mate, he was in unbelievable form the first half of the season, and has been solid the second half only due to injury and the fact that he hasn't been getting any opportunities or ball because of the centres he has been paired with. You can't blame him for our lost season, are you serious? All of the tight games we have won have been because of his brilliant goal-kicking form, get over yourself mate.
If you blame anyone, blame the whole team for their inconsistency across the whole year.
That you are taking it out on a winger that gets virtually no ball at all, saying they are responsible for our lost season is one of the most foolish things I have ever heard. He has won us all those tight games in a sense because he has converted every goal needed to steal the win.
I respect you have your opinion, but FFS, if you are going to take pot shots on a club legend get your facts straight and give credit where credit is due.
