you tell me..
I can tell you he only played 1 gasme of reserve grade a couple of years ago when cam back from injury in 2006.
1999: 7 tries 23 goals.
2000: 5 tries 29 goals.
2001: 13 tries 20 goals
2002: 9 tries 39 goals
2003: 3 tries 5 goals (spent the majority of the year on the sideline with 2 serious injuries)
2004: 12 tries 43 goals
2005: 11 tries 85 goals
2006: 5 tries 28 goals (another injury raveged year)
2007: 9 tries 59 goals
2008: 12 tries 62 goals
what a disgusting career that is...:sarcasm:
I really dont know what's so good about the stats? Parramatta since 2001 have generally had a very high powered offense, even in 2003. Joel Reddy also scored many trys for us last year, should he be re-signed to a new three deal? yes he's a good player in his own right but deep down i think we all know he isn't the answer.
See those stats are very misleading, first of al take out 2001 and 2005 as anyone could've done the job in the sides we had those two years. Secondly, i have always stated Burt was a very good support player have i not? however the problem is whilst he can support a break he very rarley actually creates onetu Galbraith was also very good at backing up a break, but we all still knew he was crap ( well apart from HJ and Jeez away).
Now, looking at those stats ( and i don't even bother looking at how many goals he kicked because that's irrelevent) i'd like to think how trys opposition sides have scored because of Burt. When Burt was on the wing he was always the oppositions favourite to target because of his poor defense and read, i can still remember Gould harping on in 2002 about Parra's poor left to right defense ( Burt was playing a large amount of that year in that problem scenario ( i still remember Canterbury belting us at Parra stadium and Talau having a field day runing over Burt).
And don't even get me started on Burts ability at catching bombs, argurably the worst inthe league, he probaly has set countless records for letting bombs bounce.
What about Burts inability to run the ball back and immediately put us on the front foot? he invented the crab run, if Burt runs the ball back to the 20 he's immediately taken back more often then not back to the 13/14 metre line, this hs killed Parramatta since he was fullback, and as a consequence we're always forced to kick the ball from the 40 metre line, why should it be left to Tautai and Grothe to make the metres, if Burt runs back as hard ashe can, takes the ball on fly also ( which he rarley does also-positional play) then we start in great field position.
One thing on i will mention on Burt goal kicking, he may kick alot but very very rarley makes the pressure kicks, i can thik of 1 instance that he did and that was in i think 2000?
Burt is too small for anything in the backline, well size isn't the issue but he has very little natural strength to push off player, Wade has tremendous strength and not much taller, see the difference, actually i shouldn't even be comparing the two as it's insulting to Wade.
Whilst he has some good traits to his game we need a more complete player in the position, Burt goes well when the side is doing well but he will never be a game changing player, he's a follower not the leader.
And please stagger, Burt has played more then one game of reserve grade:lol: i'm pretty sure he even did in 2008, oh that's right, he had a mysterious injury :lol: he was dumped from firsts but Hages saved him the embarrasment.
