League_God
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Jacob progressing and Dan regressing in the last 5 weeks has closed the gap
lol.
Threads like this are ridiculous. Days are still early for both of them, lets not forget most people here were calling for Daniel to be sent to reserve grade at the start of the season; inconsistency is a real reality for their development. Both have shown enough since Round 1 last year to suggest they'll be fine players if they continue to improve.
351 metres between them yesterday and both played just 47 minutes. They are taking a lot of ownership of this team now.
Jacob has really come on in the second half of this season. It has probably been the highlight of the year for me, along with Levi.
Big end to the year coming up for them now to cement doing it on a weekly basis.
It's pretty sick having one of the best young front rowers going around. Even better when you remember there is two of him.
If your biggest criticism of a guy is "he's not quite as good as the best player on the field", its not a bad situation...
lol.
Threads like this are ridiculous. Days are still early for both of them, lets not forget most people here were calling for Daniel to be sent to reserve grade at the start of the season; inconsistency is a real reality for their development. Both have shown enough since Round 1 last year to suggest they'll be fine players if they continue to improve.
How are threads like this ridiculous? At the time the stats both players were producing weren't comparable. Dan had shown he could dominate in the NRL and Jacob hadn't. I wasn't calling for his sacking, I wasn't hating. I was more or less commenting on the peculiarity of twins having different outputs in spite of having an identical genome and what one can only assume as an identical upbringing.
I'm thrilled Jacob has shown that he too can dominate at NRL level. I've been big fans of both since first seeing them in the canberra trial two years ago.
I'm OK with one of the Saifitis coming in from the bench.
I agree there is more impact with both on the field at the same time but, at present, we need impact off the bench.
Bench players often get rated as second class. I'd like to see the day when we think of our bench as tactical and hold the bench players in the same class as the starting 13.
Both Dan and Jacob deserve a spot. I reckon they have been competing with each other and complementing each other all their lives so nothing new.
Bench players often get rated as second class. I'd like to see the day when we think of our bench as tactical and hold the bench players in the same class as the starting 13.
Because they've got less than 50 f**king games. Whether you like it or not, disagree as much as you wish but this thread's tone reeks of high expectation. Simply, threads like this are ridiculous because you're not giving them time. You're making assumptions off the back of a period where numbers - while positive - don't define everything. If being a twin meant Jacob's output should have been as high as Daniel's at the time, then the two would be eating, shitting, sleeping and having the same exact thoughts at the exact same time.
Problem I have with this thread comes from a common theme among Knights fans where some hold a player in such high regard at a young age with little experience that they become bitter and hostile towards the player when/if they can't manage to progress forward. Simply, let a player - a young player at that - f**king develop before you start a thread like this.