you can brush me down with excuses and talk stats all you want.
I dont rate Sandow. I will , however, ultimately judge him after 5 rounds next year when he has some games under his belt pairing with Norman, and hopefully a fully fit team with a slightly better forward pack. He needs to be consistent, but he hasnt had a real 5/8 play outside of him the whole time hes been at Parramatta. He cant do it all on his own.
Like Stuart, he deserves time to prove himself.
The problem is im not entirely sure there is a 'organiser/cooler/brain cell' in either Norman or Sandow. And by that, i mean the type of composed player that can deliver a repeat set when we need it. You need someone in the halves with brains.
Yep, Sandow in a nutshell, he is simply a dumb footballer, plenty of skill, but no brain. To be fair, at the moment he is surrounded by dumb footballers, but I think he makes them look even dumber than they are.
Natural ability has got him to where he is, and on his day he'll make those few plays that can make you stand up and take notice of his skill, but look beyond that and there's just nothing there of substance. Either everyone on the field ( including the defence ) knows exactly what he's going to do, or know one know's, including every single player in our squad.
He can not craft a set in attack, when he does get involved in a set you can near guarantee he'll run across the field, waving his hand behind his arse like he's just dropped one, telegraphing to the defence an inside runner is going to get the ball at least two to three times, then either go for the miracle play, or as it has been of late, simply put in a poor kick, or find himself taking the fith tackle effectively taking himself out of the play on the last.
Add to that, as he has shown us many a time, when things aren't going his way he can just be a lazy merkin, which is what Sterlo was basically saying.
The difference between Souths with Reynolds and Souths with Sandow is simply that Reynolds is a far smarter footballer, he constantly makes the right decisions in attack, and executes those decisions consistently well, with Sandow they had none of this, yet had a fairly decent squad, that to a point could make up for his shortcomings, and capitalise on his occasional individual brilliance.
