when hayne is concerned, the weakness people talk about is him delivering over a long period of time. Because the fact is in recent times hayne has been great, the thing that has impressed me in the last couple of years, is hayne's constant ability to deliver with this expectation on him. When people compare him to billy they speak about this consistency over 4-5 years, but no one speaks about billys 06 season which was suspension riddled and filled with a stint at the bears. Hayne has been pretty consistent, he hasn't just. Dropped out of the sky (06 great debut year, 07 move to fb and narrowly miss out on gf, 08 Fiji rlwc semi final, 09 fantastic in origin) the main disappointments I could pick were when eels fans booed him at five eigth early last year, but ando was in the right frame of mind, looking at his playmaking since. He has been awesome for the blues, having to play with rubbish selections every year. he was shown up this year as a right winger when he's been a great left winger throughout his origin career and as a club FB. Hayne's form is only so glaring because the eels' other strike weapons in mateo and moimoi don't play 80 mins. So their reliance on him may be contributing to the eels' problems as jt said but they're better with than without him. Let's face it, the eels' last two games were against two red hot teams, and they gave it a red hot go yesterday until they showed their defence isn't really strong under continual pressure.
