lacks the brain to put it to good use,
Wallace isn't exactly the sharpest tool in the shed either. True, Sandow's choices holds him back but he has it all over Wallace in terms of kicking, passing and running. I'm being generous to Wallace saying Pete's on par.
McCrone has a good running game, but his passing and kicking are absolutely dreadful, as is his defense.
Kicking game is fine, at least on par with Wallace's. I don't see any issues of his passing game being that big an issue, if anything again on par with Wallace. Agree on his d, which is why he's I'm shocked to say on par with Wallace.
Walsh had a good year on the back of very dominant performances by his forwards, a luxury
So you agree Walsh has been better than Wallace? Cheers.
The same goes for Hornby, who leaves most of the organising and kicking to Soward anyway. Wallace plays next to the great Lockyer, and still takes more initiative than Hornby.
Soward handles the kicking, but you must be kidding yourself when you can't see the effect Hornby has on their general play. He's generally the one coming up or setting up the game breaking linebreak (check the grand final). Wallace barely shows initiative, that's his biggest problem, that's why he cops it. Watch his games vs. Tigers and Eels last year and tell me what kind of initiative Wallace showed.
Wallace has had to play most games behind a dominated pack
At the start sure of 2010, sure, but by the Melbourne game we were matching it with every pack in the comp. and Wallace generally failed to step up to the occasion.
but ignore what good he does
Excuse me, what? You're accusing me of this in a thread where I've defended him over a series of posts against GTB.
I don't think Wallace is a s**t player but I don't think he's the best player either. To me he's the epitome of a standard halfback who's performances largely consist of 5 long kicks straight down the fullbacks throat, 1 good long kick, 1 good attacking kick, 1 stupid kick, good defence with the odd miss here and there, 1 good run, 3 mediocre runs, 1 good pass, 2 bad passes, 1 try assist, 1 dead s**t error.
But as I mentioned earlier, his game vs. Penrith was his best so far and he's been steadily improving over time. As a Broncos fan I hope he continues and I hope he makes me look like a fool, I think everybody on here wants Wallace to serve up some humble pie but geez we've gone hungry for at least a good year now. It better be worth it, or he can go set up shop at Parra, or have his career shot dead at the Warriors.
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