Halves Ratings for Next Year

[The_Shield]

For mine:

Eels up to 3rd. Norman and Moses IMO are both better than average with potential to be great.
Warriors up to 4th.
Johnson is a little inconsistent but still one of the better 7s in the comp. Green should be a good partner for him.

Dragons drop to 5th.
Panthers drop to 6th.
Storm drop to 7th.

Not the order I think the ladder will be in. Halves are only part of the puzzle.

My biggest gripe with the Eels halves are that they go missing to much. Last years finals is a perfect example. Plus Moses is a liability in defence. If they fix those then they would definitely move up a few spots on my list

 

[ed-grimley]

Course not. Having the best halves means nothing if the rest of the team is crap. One of the main reasons I don’t think the roosters will win ithe comp is because outside of their spine their really isn’t much. And having a poor halves pairing isn’t the end of it either, I mean the Broncos won with Shane Perry as their halfback

I guess you can't really adjudicate on the new combos either - they might fire or they might be duds. Townsend is not rated by many but he formed a good partnership with Jimmy and helped the Sharks to a premiership.

 

[RazorRam0n]

haha you know you've won the battle when an arbitrary point becomes more of the focus point then the original statement...

Morgan and Thurston have struggled before, Morgan got moved to FB because of it making way for someone like ray Thompson

as the definitive proof illustrated, it was in fact robert liu (even worse) that forced morgan out of the halves. he did in fact return to the game at fb.

STOP MAKING EXCUSES...those are the facts.

 

[The_Shield]

haha you know you've won the battle when an arbitrary point becomes more of the focus point then the original statement...



as the definitive proof illustrated, it was in fact robert liu (even worse) that forced morgan out of the halves. he did in fact return to the game at fb.

STOP MAKING EXCUSES...those are the facts.

Mate your embarrassing yourself

 

[RazorRam0n]

Mate your embarrassing yourself

with facts, righto

 

[The_Shield]

with facts, righto

No with stupidity.

Morgan didn’t go to fullback because they preferred Robert Lui at halfback. He went to fullback because Lachlan Coote got injured in the preseason. And he struggled in 2013 with the suicide of his best friend and ended up stepping down from the NRL because of it, hence why he only played a handful of games in the NRL in 2013. Those are facts

 

[RazorRam0n]

No with stupidity.

Morgan didn’t go to fullback because they preferred Robert Lui at halfback. He went to fullback because Lachlan Coote got injured in the preseason. And he struggled in 2013 with the suicide of his best friend and ended up stepping down from the NRL because of it, hence why he only played a handful of games in the NRL in 2013. Those are facts

Wrong champ if Coote was fit Morgan was likely off the bench, the proof is there that Lui was preferred even if Coote was fit.

 

[The_Shield]

Wrong champ if Coote was fit Morgan was likely off the bench, the proof is there that Lui was preferred even if Coote was fit.

Where is this proof? I’m yet to see anything that proves this

 

[RazorRam0n]

Where is this proof? I’m yet to see anything that proves this

um the fact that the morgan played fb after last playing half and then spending the rest of the season in reserves. also known as logic. i posted the ins and outs as proof.

 

[POPEYE]

Wrong champ if Coote was fit Morgan was likely off the bench, the proof is there that Lui was preferred even if Coote was fit.

It's amazing that a coach would be that dumb isn't it . . . thank f**k Green's now become a Supercoach

 

[The_Shield]

um the fact that the morgan played fb after last playing half and then spending the rest of the season in reserves. also known as logic. i posted the ins and outs as proof.

That proves nothing. It has been well documented and I’ve posted it here twice already, that in 2013 Morgan dropped out of the NRL and even considered walking away from rugby league altogether after his good friend and teammate Alex Elisala committed suicide. The next year Coote got injured in the preseason so Morgan went to fullback cause they pretty much had no one else.

 

[The_Shield]

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/s...h/news-story/a2588d57cf018146f89efa4488f3aad7

 

[RazorRam0n]

That proves nothing. It has been well documented and I’ve posted it here twice already, that in 2013 Morgan dropped out of the NRL and even considered walking away from rugby league altogether after his good friend and teammate Alex Elisala committed suicide. The next year Coote got injured in the preseason so Morgan went to fullback cause they pretty much had no one else.

you're on massive struggle street with logic here champ.

his mate's suicide is an EXCUSE for his poor form that season, in fact what it does is reinforce that fact that morgan did in fact struggle with thurston in the halves that season, which is the central statement all along.

and coote's injury doesn't suggest morgan would have got reselected over liu, his non selection after he was dropped would have suggested he would have been benched. if anything my original statement should have said he not only struggled in halves with thurston he was benched in favour of liu when he came back if not for coote's injury

 

[Cherry_poppins]

My biggest gripe with the Eels halves are that they go missing to much. Last years finals is a perfect example. Plus Moses is a liability in defence. If they fix those then they would definitely move up a few spots on my list

Well the storm only had one half and he went to easts

3 seasons of failure ahead then the storm will be replaced by the melbears

 

[The_Shield]

you're on massive struggle street with logic here champ.

his mate's suicide is an EXCUSE for his poor form that season, in fact what it does is reinforce that fact that morgan did in fact struggle with thurston in the halves that season, which is the central statement all along.

and coote's injury doesn't suggest morgan would have got reselected over liu, his non selection after he was dropped would have suggested he would have been benched. if anything my original statement should have said he not only struggled in halves with thurston he was benched in favour of liu when he came back if not for coote's injury

He wasn’t dropped for Lui, he stepped down himself

 

[The_Shield]

Well the storm only had one half and he went to easts

3 seasons of failure ahead then the storm will be replaced by the melbears

Yeah we’ve only got a qld & Australian Rep and the best up &coming half in the game in our halves now.

 

[AJB1102]

I agree with you but what is the Gagai point?

Good question.

I'm gonna guess I was thinking Origin and Gagai coming into the side recently as an example, even though he played on the right and Thurston conducts mainly on the left. I posted it 1:45am after Aus Day so I'm pretty surprised only a little bit didn't make sense.

 

[Cherry_poppins]

Yeah we’ve only got a qld & Australian Rep and the best up &coming half in the game in our halves now.

Lol one year wonder I'd say

 

[POPEYE]

Lol one year wonder I'd say

Let's hope Bellamy stays long enough to cronk him up

 

[butchmcdick]

haha you know you've won the battle when an arbitrary point becomes more of the focus point then the original statement...



as the definitive proof illustrated, it was in fact robert liu (even worse) that forced morgan out of the halves. he did in fact return to the game at fb.

STOP MAKING EXCUSES...those are the facts.

Fact. We won a comp with JT and Morgan as our halves

How many other halves combinations this season can say the same ?