Pearcey

[WOTBEH]

This game will show the world if he is a big game player or not. He failed in 2010 and every Origin and now he has one more chance.

Roosters still win it without him, but he will be a passenger on the Maloney/Money Bill train. He just doesn't have the heart to compete at this level.

 

[Pierced Soul]

one game doesnt make you a big game player. he actually looks to somehow be benefiting from origin despite his shit performances and he was great the other night.

shane perry played well in the 06 gf but he aint no big game player....

 

[Von]

Looks like Buzz is eating humble pie after claiming Adam Reynolds should have been NSW halfback....


LAURIE Daley was right after all. Adam Reynolds is not ready for State of Origin football.

All those, myself included, who wanted him chosen in a Blues jersey ahead of Mitchell Pearce were wrong.

The bubble burst on Friday night in the grand final qualifier against Manly at ANZ Stadium.

This is not supposed to be a criticism of the boom Rabbitohs number seven, who has the genuine ability and developing game to play for his state and his country.

But right now his football is not at the same level as Cooper Cronk and Daly Cherry-Evans, or even Pearce for that matter.

Friday night proved that when Cherry-Evans absolutely smacked his backside.

Semi-finals are a bit like mini Origins for speed and intensity.

Fox Sports statistics tell the full story: one run, 12 metres, no linebreaks, no tackle busts, no linebreak assists, no try assists.

The youngster has now gone two consecutive games without registering any of the above statistics.

During the season he averaged 8.5 runs a game and 31.5m.

In comparison, Pearce had six runs for nearly 70 metres against the Knights on Saturday night.

He played exactly the type of game NSW have been waiting five years for.

Speed, a step, beautiful passing and great skill in shaping all the attack.

The pressure will be on Reynolds next season when young Luke Keary, another of the game’s talented rookie half-backs, presses for regular first grade game time at the Rabbitohs.

Reynolds needs a good off-season and probably some specialist tutoring from a great half-back.

Someone like Andrew Johns, who has put the spit and polish on Cherry-Evans in his role as an assistant coach at the Sea Eagles.

The young half-back is a much better player than what we saw on Friday night. He just needs to develop his running game.


http://www.news.com.au/sport/nrl/mo...ut-adam-reynolds/story-fndv2kok-1226729451009

 

[POPEYE]

There's been some soc raving on for years that had Pearce been given the advantage of a decent coach, even just a real coach, he wouldn't have had to wait so long to be counted.

If ever there was proof that coaches make players he is it, maybe his junior talent was wasted by coaching nincompoopery but there still hope of salvaging the time he has left

 

[TheDalek079]

Pearce has achieved 1000x more on the footy park than anyone here. And probably off the field too - he dated/maybe did a Pussycat Doll.

Yet so many people on here carry on like he's useless or something. Weird

 

[Tommy Smith]

The Pearce hate is hilarious.

He's comfortably in the top 3 halfbacks in the game (assuming JT as a 5/8). Cronk, DCE and Pearce are comfortably ahead of the rest.

 

[gronkathon]

Yeah no. He is Nathan Fein with better cattle

 

[Mr Saab]

Can Mitchy back up his prelim final performance?
Roosters fans talk about how the NSW pack let him down in Origin (when they didnt) and how great the Chooks pack is...well now we will find out in the GF

 

[kbw]

I think the last 3 games can be easily classified as big games, and guess who stood up. Pearce. Especially on Sat night.

The hate can be justified on SOO and last years form, but not this year

 

[Von]

I'm happy for the LU blokes to get their way and Pearce not get selected next year. Watch us lose with Adam Reynolds.

And be more than happy to have Pearce not missing Roosters games.


Btw, anyone seen BunniesMan???

 

[Haffa]

He could win three straight comps and half the people here would say it was because of someone else.

 

[aqua_duck]

As I've said many times, Pearce might not be origin material but he's a more than handy player at club level

 

[Joker's Wild]

The Pearce hate is hilarious.

He's comfortably in the top 3 halfbacks in the game (assuming JT as a 5/8). Cronk, DCE and Pearce are comfortably ahead of the rest.

I agree and this is whats so sad about RL in 2013 and the immediate future. The gap between the 2 Qlders and Pearce is huge and does not bode well for NSW in the coming years.

Laurie may have to go with 2 5/8s in the halves next year

 

[Bobby DIGital]

I had a good laugh at that channel 9 wank off a couple weeks ago when Souths played Easts. "It's the NSW halves of this year Vs the NSW halves of next"

LMFAO so Ch9 are picking rep teams now.

Funny thing is all 4 of em are absolute dog shit.

 

[Sleep]

Reminds me a lot of Anasta. Good at club level, but was never cut out for rep level and came up short in some big games.

Pearce has the benefit of a much better team around him this year than he's had in the past. The last time the Roosters went to the big game it was Todd Carney running the show. It's more of a fifty/fifty split now with he and Maloney.

All that being said, if I had the chance to shut down one of them and run the risk of the other being relied on I'd want Maloney shut down. He's far more dangerous and Pearce has never shown he can carry a teams offense. Good support game, great defense, solid kicking game but nothing else sticks out.

 

[Valheru]

I feel I need to do you all a favour and tell you what the OP really meant to say.

“I hate Pearce but there is a chance he could win a GF this year. I am going to create this thread labelling him as garbage and not a big game player in the hope that the roosters lose and I can bag him next Monday. However, should they win I will also put in my post that in the event they win it will clearly be due to the other players i.e. he was carried. I am so smart!!!

 

[Tommy Smith]

Sounds like the opening poster was Brett Kimmorley.

"The Roosters halves aren't good enough to win the comp."

Disclaimer after the Rnd 26 Rabbits game: "The Roosters halves can't win it, but Sonny-Bill might..."

 

[WOTBEH]

one game doesnt make you a big game player. he actually looks to somehow be benefiting from origin despite his shit performances and he was great the other night.

shane perry played well in the 06 gf but he aint no big game player....

Yes it does, playing well in big games makes you a big game player.

Pearce has achieved 1000x more on the footy park than anyone here. And probably off the field too - he dated/maybe did a Pussycat Doll.

Yet so many people on here carry on like he's useless or something. Weird

Who cares what he has done off the field? Are you a Pearce Stan? We are talking about footy m8.

I'm happy for the LU blokes to get their way and Pearce not get selected next year. Watch us lose with Adam Reynolds.

And be more than happy to have Pearce not missing Roosters games.


Btw, anyone seen BunniesMan???

As opposed to NSW losing yet again with Pearce? No thanks, he is shit in Origin how many more times before you Roosters fans acknowledge this?

I feel I need to do you all a favour and tell you what the OP really meant to say.

?I hate Pearce but there is a chance he could win a GF this year. I am going to create this thread labelling him as garbage and not a big game player in the hope that the roosters lose and I can bag him next Monday. However, should they win I will also put in my post that in the event they win it will clearly be due to the other players i.e. he was carried. I am so smart!!!

No I won't dopey. If he plays well I will admit it. He has improved of late, but this is his real test.

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

Wouldn't trade him for any half back or five-eighth in rugby league. On ya Pearcey. Great player.

Easts would belt the shit out of NSW though :lol: Robbie Farah crumbling under pressure, Adam Reynolds' cross field kicks going too deep, Aaron Woods making 20 metres :lol: they wouldn't stand a chance and Pearce would star in the thrashing

 

[Manu Vatuvei]

"The Roosters halves aren't good enough to win the comp."

Disclaimer after the Rnd 26 Rabbits game: "The Roosters halves can't win it, but Sonny-Bill might..."

I don't think that's an entirely unreasonable opinion.

Premiership winning teams almost always have at least one outstanding half, but there have been relatively rare occasions where they have just had a very strong overall side- 2010 Dragons and 2004 Bulldogs come to mind here, and I'll be putting the 2013 Roosters in that category.