mxlegend99
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What do names on paper matter? He's not the reason his forward pack was shit. Or the reason Queensland had a huge amount of field position or possession.
Cleary literally did more than anyone on his team in a badly beaten side. He did as much as possible to bring a side outplayed across the park into it.
When has he ever played a club game with 43% ball? The only club game this year i can recall us struggling in was against Broncos where we had 51% of the ball.
Your expectations are pretty ridiculous. Joey lost games. Thurston lost games. You seem to think the form of players around him is irrelevant. No player in history has won every game. How exactly is it reasonable to think he should have done more when he was already doing more than a normal person would expect from a player in his position?
The blues squad was pretty shit aswell. No specialist centres, an out of form hooker and a forward pack that had mostly guys from bottom sides who bitched it in the game. Starting front frower from wooden spoon team puts in a whopping 35m from 7 carries. Tyson Frizzell hasnt played good footy in ages and has a whopping 48 metres as a starting second rower.
Cook added nothing. Walker added nothing. Cleary was the only spine player doing anything after Tedesco got injured. Yet he's the only one copping shit for it.
Cleary
1x try assist
1x lb assist
634m kicked
1x 40/20
1x drop out
98m gained (more than 6 of our forwards)
Walkers stats
56m gained
0 try assists
0 lb assists
126m kicked
0 forced drop outs
Cooks stats
0 try assists
50m gained
0 linebreak assists
0 forced drop outs
0 kicking metres
Just absurd that when his fullback gets injured and the rest of his spine contribute nothing it's the guy who actually contributed something that cops it.
Throw in no help from a spine behind a badly beaten forward pack with 43% ball... You expect him to somehow win the game? When Joey lost games. Thurston lost games. Smith lost games. If it was possible for one man to overcome all those things against you one of those guys would have done it and never lost a game. But they all got flogged in games aswell. He might have been able to better in a few moments. But realistically his effort is as good as it gets in a dominated side. If we had another halfback in the side things could have been even worse.
