DJShaksta
First Grade
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Let's apply some logic.
Covell is a marquee goalkicker. Covell has 110 NRL games experience, only TDD comes close with 99. Covell has footy smarts way above that of any other of our 3/4s. Covell is our top try scorer (a point very well used by Simmophiles in the past to justify his existence). Covell is a good defender. Covell is safe under the high ball. Covell is an international. Covell is a team player. Covell "brings" to the team.
Covell is slow.
Pomeroy (61), TTD (99) and Misi (27) don't have the experience of Covell
None of them are better than Covell under a high ball. None of them have Covell's street smarts. None of them are goalkickers. None of them find the way to the tryline as Covell can. All of them are more suspect in D than Covell, especially his left side mate Pomeroy.
The thing is he is our best 3/4 overall but happens to be slow.
If we have cap problems we're not going to be able to replace him in a hurry with the type of high velocity, superstar people seem to want. Just doesn't make sense that this could happen. There's no money to do it and not that many, if any, available. The possibility is that we could set Covell loose and replace him with someone with none of the positives but a 9 second 100m. Or we have to blood an Orcher or a Stapleton or Mills.
All the talk seems to be whether to keep Cov or not. The talk should be more directed at all the 3/4s because there's at least 2 of those 3 that should walk before Cov. Misi, although a fave of mine, would realistically be on thin ice. Simmons IS on thin ice and is overpaid for the skating he does.
IMNHO Covell is our most valuable 3/4, he should be retained. A way should be found. To me the way should be to release Simmons and/or Misi and rebuild the right side from within. Brown can play right wing, he probably needs a full season of gifted games a la Simmons to build confidence and learn the game properly. There's several kids who can play centre at a pinch including the White Elephant Feeleega.
To do this rebuilding you need old heads around. Enter Covell, our most experienced 3/4. Simmo offers nothing as a mentor, he still can't get his own head around the game and to state a fact is simply not that fast as people say. Watching him in games you'd be excused for thinking Covell and he would be a tight foot race. Misi is quicker but as with TDD doesn't offer much by way of experience to help bring new ones on.
For me the smart thing would be to retain Covell and get rid of that unicorn in the #4 to pay for it. I'm sure that mythical creature is on more $ than Covell yet the team rides on Covell's back more than the Dodger.
That's my view.
It's right as usual.
Gotta agree here.
Even when he was down on form earlier in the year we saw what happened to us when he got dropped - we got soundly beaten by the wooden spoon favs. He came back after that dropping and has been close to our best every week.
Lov the Cov
Gotta keep the Cov.
