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Mitchell Pearce

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And according to you and your Rooster mates he's the greatest player ever. According to you he should have been an immortal after his first ever touch of the ball, and after his 2nd a new, higher honour should have been bestowed upon him.

No, not at all. I've never been one of Pearce's biggest fans, he has frustrated me enormously over the years. However, I felt sick in that match thread last night. The constant derision by the Hive Mind was quite frankly sickening. Mitchell Pearce must be the only player in the history of the game who is expected to perform a f**king miracle with every play he's involved in. When he just does something average, the Hive Mind joins in to crush him completely from existence. f**king nuffies, the lot of you.
 

Maximus

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No, not at all. I've never been one of Pearce's biggest fans, he has frustrated me enormously over the years. However, I felt sick in that match thread last night. The constant derision by the Hive Mind was quite frankly sickening. Mitchell Pearce must be the only player in the history of the game who is expected to perform a f**king miracle with every play he's involved in. When he just does something average, the Hive Mind joins in to crush him completely from existence. f**king nuffies, the lot of you.

Just like not a single poster on here thinks he's the worst player ever. Worst origin halfback ever, yes, and that's not an unfair claim, but you won't find any posters claiming what you said.
 

blaza88z

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No, not at all. I've never been one of Pearce's biggest fans, he has frustrated me enormously over the years. However, I felt sick in that match thread last night. The constant derision by the Hive Mind was quite frankly sickening. Mitchell Pearce must be the only player in the history of the game who is expected to perform a f**king miracle with every play he's involved in. When he just does something average, the Hive Mind joins in to crush him completely from existence. f**king nuffies, the lot of you.

When Tedesco catches the ball on halfway, charges forward with real gusto.. NSW are in prime field position and your halfback kicks it straight to the opposition winger for a 7 tackle set.. yeah, that's tripe, that is where Pearce HAS to improve because that is known as letting your entire team down, they busted their ass in defense to get a crack at us and your halfback produces that? nowhere near good enough in that arena as a halfback, fortunately for NSW we were comprehensively outplayed so it didn't matter too much
 

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Mitchell Pearce will play Game 2. Enough said.

Not because he has proved anything but because we won and the hierarchy and NRL media are intent on a "redemption".

I'm watching the game again right now and I am at the Maloney try. I have keep rewinding the Pearce bit and you can see it was Smith's error in defence and Fifi's vision to take a left hand turn to avoid the TWO QLD props in front of him and run to the gap that Smith provided and the sweet offload that made the try possible.
 

adamkungl

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Nah the best part isn't that he'll play Origin 2, play a strong game in a winning team and still cop abuse.

It's that he'll almost guarantee himself a spot in the Kangaroos WC squad in the process and we'll get another 6 months of 50 page threads with the same posters crying about it
 

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Nah the best part isn't that he'll play Origin 2, play a strong game in a winning team and still cop abuse.

It's that he'll almost guarantee himself a spot in the Kangaroos WC squad in the process and we'll get another 6 months of 50 page threads with the same posters crying about it

Is there something you don't understand about having to earn your reputation? He earnt a negative one through 15 bad games. It will take more than 1 ok game to erase that. There also no way any sane person can think he plays the world cup over Cronk/JT unless there is injuries or they want to give them a game off to not over play them.
 
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Is there something you don't understand about having to earn your reputation? He earnt a negative one through 15 bad games. It will take more than 1 ok game to erase that. There also no way any sane person can think he plays the world cup over Cronk/JT unless there is injuries or they want to give them a game off to not over play them.
That's fair enough. He deserves any criticism that comes his way. In think this is now his time though. He is maturing into a very good footballer. There is not really any other NSW half that is as good as him at the moment either.
 

adamkungl

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Is there something you don't understand about having to earn your reputation? He earnt a negative one through 15 bad games. It will take more than 1 ok game to erase that. There also no way any sane person can think he plays the world cup over Cronk/JT unless there is injuries or they want to give them a game off to not over play them.

You think they'll only take Cronk + JT into the Cup?

They'll definitely take a 3rd half (Maloney). Maybe not a 4th - but Pearce will be next in line. Has Milf, Hunt, DCE covered.
 

OldPanther

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You think they'll only take Cronk + JT into the Cup?

They'll definitely take a 3rd half (Maloney). Maybe not a 4th - but Pearce will be next in line. Has Milf, Hunt, DCE covered.

I don't think he'll get game time before Cronk, JT and Maloney. I don't know how big the squad will be and they'll need to take back ups. Pearce isn't a guaranteed for that like Maloney is.
 

SBD82

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You think they'll only take Cronk + JT into the Cup?

They'll definitely take a 3rd half (Maloney). Maybe not a 4th - but Pearce will be next in line. Has Milf, Hunt, DCE covered.
If they take 4 halfs I think Morgan will get the nod ahead of Pearce.

Not so much to play him at half, more because he will play the 14 role better than Pearce or Maloney, and in an absolute emergency can play as the starting 6.
 
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