I haven't read the entire thread but i'd like to add my two cents on Thaiday. Thaiday's first game back was not great, he made plenty of errors, lacked emphasis with his runs and positional play was terrible. Sure he didn't play well, but you cannot judge a player on 60 minutes of football. He just had offseason surgery on both of his ankles and players are expecting him to play his flashing football straight away.
Thaiday is a confidence player, when he is playing well he will be everywhere doing everything and look a million dollar player. But when things aren't going his way he vanishes, stumbles and dawdles towards the ball. And the only way to get his confidence going is to get him on the field and just play him off John's hip. It worked so well last year before he was unfortunately injured and once he starts scoring a couple of tries, he will start taking the line on. When he starts taking the line on there is no other player like him in the competition. He has the x-factor that no other players in our team have - and that is the raw ability to make something out of absolutely nothing. He can fabricate some sort of brilliance when we need it the most and that is Thaiday.
