Well Nathan Hindmarsh seems to agree with all of those people because every time anyone on the Matty Johns show says anything about something "freakish" Hayne did during a game he says the same thing.... "yeah but he's got to do that every week".
Everyone gushes over the fancy stuff and rightfully so, some of the plays he comes up with are worth the praise they get, but then he disappears for such long periods of time (sometimes games on end) before he does anything noteworthy and it stirs up everyones juices again.
This is such a lot of bullsh*t. You're right that he doesn't constantly make the big plays that make commentators jizz in their pants. However most of the other things he does seem to go unnoticed.
Take tonights game. The commentators lost their shit over the try he set up and the one he scored. Otherwise they and most people would say he had a queit night. However if you look at the stats he still managed to get 200 plus metres.
I don't think he disappears at all, i think there are games where he doesn't come off with his incredible plays but that doesn't mean he goes missing. Most people just miss all the other great stuff he does. He gets a hell of a lot of try assists, LB assists, metres gained, offloads, try saving tackles and all sorts of other things besides the freakish tries he seems to score. Lets also not forget that he has to do a lot of the ball playing and general play kicking for his team.
He manages to achieve all that on a team of plodders as well. The problem for Hayne is people expect him to show the sort of form he showed in the back end of 2009 and the form he is in right now when there isn't a single other player in the comp capable of doing it. I don't think i've seen another player capable of playing at that level. It's a ridiculous expectation and one that is impossible to meet when your team is awful.
I still don't understand why Inglis doesn't cop this same critiscm. If anything it applies much more to him, he'll go missing for entire games (just look at origin this year) and if he scores one try people lose their sh*t. Not saying he's not a great player mind you i just don't see how this complaint applies to Hayne more than him.
If anything all this crap stems back to when Ricky was doing dumb stuff like putting Hayne at 5/8 and he really did disappear. Then again Ricky convinced the entire rugby league community that Farah was sh*t and should never play SOO. How far back did that set NSW back?
I'll take Inglis over Hayne every day of the week.
Really?!?!?!?!? Would never have guessed!
