Ok kids, sit back, clear your minds and think for a little bit. Where and how has Nigel made his mark in this game. That is right as a centre who can run angles like no one else (provided the work is done on the inside of him), as a centre who can hit a hole like no one else (provided the work is done on the inside of him), as a centre who can get over the line from 20 out 90% of the time (provided the work is done on the inside of him). Is he creative? -- no, can he pass the sublime pass? -- no, can he kick -- yes (cast your mind back to earlier in the year when he became kick happy -- woeful, can he kick in general play as either an attacking or defensive option? -- no. Is he a great centre -- yes (provided the work is done on the inside of him), is he a 5/8 -- no. Here endeth lesson number one.
Lesson number two -- are you guilty of raper think? It goes something like this -- our backline has done sh*t all, all year. Manly, let's throw Nige in to 5/8 cause dykes is injured -- hey sh*t we won by a bucketload, must be my master stroke (doesn't matter that it was an alignment of the moon and stars that meant that even my daughter would have looked good playing 5/8 against Manly). Fast forward one week -- Dykes is back, nige to the centres, we lose. Can't be crappy coaching, must be dykes fault. Fast forward one week -- drop dykes, nige to 5/8 -- lost again but it couldn't be the result of crappy coaching -- the masterplan will work one day. Lesson two endeth.
Who would I have as 5/8 -- doesn't matter -- read my earlier posts throughout the year. Until something else changes you could have Superman, Spiderman, Flash Gordon, The Incredible Hulk, Inspector Gadget and Luke Covell as your backline and they will all look like sh*t.
Lesson Three -- we will now have a barrage of 'sour grapes' posters who do not like the truth and therefore try and bolster their arguments by saying I am biased, negative, pushing a barrow, whatever. But you know what, I have more PROVEN football knowledge in my arse than they have in their entire collective infantile excuses they call brains.
Lesson number two -- are you guilty of raper think? It goes something like this -- our backline has done sh*t all, all year. Manly, let's throw Nige in to 5/8 cause dykes is injured -- hey sh*t we won by a bucketload, must be my master stroke (doesn't matter that it was an alignment of the moon and stars that meant that even my daughter would have looked good playing 5/8 against Manly). Fast forward one week -- Dykes is back, nige to the centres, we lose. Can't be crappy coaching, must be dykes fault. Fast forward one week -- drop dykes, nige to 5/8 -- lost again but it couldn't be the result of crappy coaching -- the masterplan will work one day. Lesson two endeth.
Who would I have as 5/8 -- doesn't matter -- read my earlier posts throughout the year. Until something else changes you could have Superman, Spiderman, Flash Gordon, The Incredible Hulk, Inspector Gadget and Luke Covell as your backline and they will all look like sh*t.
Lesson Three -- we will now have a barrage of 'sour grapes' posters who do not like the truth and therefore try and bolster their arguments by saying I am biased, negative, pushing a barrow, whatever. But you know what, I have more PROVEN football knowledge in my arse than they have in their entire collective infantile excuses they call brains.
