Ranking the clubs fullbacks

[Joker's Wild]

No... he's certainly quite a precious little princess at times. Hardly a grub, on or off the field, though. There's much worse things to be than smug.

I don't even really know why I'm defending the bloke, I was slamming him proper for the back half of last year for being a pea heart. One thing I'm certain of though, is that when he pulls his socks up, the bloke can play - and play bloody well.

Because he is currently wearing the red and blue mate. We can bag the bloke all year but as soon as someone else rips into him we go into defence mode

 

[bad boy bubby]

Boyd is a class act player, but not elite like Slater, Inglis, Hayne (sometimes). He's like the David Peachey or Luke Patten of the current era... with a bit less heart than either of the aforementioned.

Methinks you need a memory hit.
Whilst Boyd is a good payer, he aint no Peach.

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[Joker's Wild]

Chalk and cheese really

Peach was a great support player where as Boyd is more a power runner and ball player

 

[Tone83]

Boyd is the Chalk and peachey the cheese, and rugby league is a dinner party.
Peach is a delectable morsel of goodness while boyd leaves you with a dry mouth of unsatisfying dust.

 

[perverse]

My point was that he's a quality sub-rep player in his position, you plonkers. I'll let you idiots squabble about whether he's fit to shine Peacheys boots. They're obviously completely different players, playing in quite different eras. Both crucial to whichever team they were playing in at the time.

At the end of the day, those who appreciate Boyd are the ones who have benefited most from his ability. The truth is, even on his worst days, he's safe as houses and does his job... he just tends to take the easy road far too often for my liking. It's frustrating watching a bloke with a lot of ability play within himself so often, especially when your club is paying him to be one of the spark plugs of the team.

 

[magpie4ever]

As I said before Slater is the best I have ever seen, GI will need to wait in line.

 

[rabbitohs95]

As I said before Slater is the best I have ever seen, GI will need to wait in line.

Lucky for Inglis he still has a few years to prove himself. What separates him from Slater is Slater's anticipation in attack. I think Greg has that desperation in defence but he still needs to know when to chime into the backline, but he's getting better and better each season he plays fullback.

 

[Tone83]

It doesn't make sense to do a 180 and act like slater is the best now just because he was lucky enough to get the FB spot last night, we can't know what GI would have done with it. The bottom line is GI has been a way better FB than slater over the last 2 years, and just how good he's been is better than slater ever has, so he's the best. The best ever.

 

[Tone83]

My point was that he's a quality sub-rep player in his position, you plonkers. I'll let you idiots squabble about whether he's fit to shine Peacheys boots. They're obviously completely different players, playing in quite different eras. Both crucial to whichever team they were playing in at the time.

At the end of the day, those who appreciate Boyd are the ones who have benefited most from his ability. The truth is, even on his worst days, he's safe as houses and does his job... he just tends to take the easy road far too often for my liking. It's frustrating watching a bloke with a lot of ability play within himself so often, especially when your club is paying him to be one of the spark plugs of the team.

You're just wrong about Boyd, he's not a bloke with a lot of ability playing within himself. He's a bloke with no ability playing out of his skin, playing to his complete and utter potential, oozing with confidence. He was picked as a rep player simply because there was no one else and he was a bronco, from there he's developed a confidence, mistakenly believing he's a great player on par with the rest of the maroons, and it has resulted in him playing with supreme confidence because he believes in himself. So he plays to his potential all the time.

The problem is he has no potential.

Peachey was the extreme opposite, oozing with talent, tonnes of potential, just never nurtured, never fully believed in by any authority figures, so never allowed to reach his potential.

Peachey was a thousand times better than Boyd could ever be, but Boyd has and will continue to accomplish far more than peachey ever could, and it all comes down to support and nurturing, how each has had their talent managed by the big wigs. They failed peach, they're serving Boyd everything he could ever dream of on a silver platter.

 

[magpie4ever]

It doesn't make sense to do a 180 and act like slater is the best now just because he was lucky enough to get the FB spot last night, we can't know what GI would have done with it. The bottom line is GI has been a way better FB than slater over the last 2 years, and just how good he's been is better than slater ever has, so he's the best. The best ever.

You are a dumb and blind merkin. Better than Slater, ever - give me a break; you goose.

 

[Evenflow]

You are a dumb and blind merkin. Better than Slater, ever - give me a break; you goose.

lol took the words right out of my mouth.

 

[The Eagle]

I agree 100%, Hayne should be a walk up starter and at fullback every year for the blues. It's typical of the selectors though who continue to pick him out of position. If Hayne doesn't get injured and plays the last 2 origin games, I go as far as saying NSW wins the series.

It's not just attack for both Inglis and Hayne, it's their defence that really puts them ahead of the pack.

You must be a Queensland supporter

Hayne has terrible positional awareness
Dugan has one great game out of five
Stewart is the auto select fullback if fit

 

[Tone83]

Stewart and hayne is very similar to Slater and Gi. Hayne and GI are better, but they're so good they can play anywhere, so it behooves the teams to play slater and stewart at 1. However both slater and stewart, perhaps stewart even more so, are starting to get past their primes, and at some point soon could even become liabilities so the tough decision needs to be made to drop them.

I rate both slater and stewart, at their primes they are perfect for qld and nsw respectively, and hayne and GI are fine to carve up centre spots, but yeah I don't know about next year. Stewart especially is pretty much done. Whether to go with hayne at 1 or duges, I dunno. Again hayne is clearly better, but can play anywhere. If qld had 6 GI's and NSW 6 Haynes they'd both definitely fill 1 through 6 and the teams would be all the better for it. We're lucky to bare witness to such a pair of freaks playing at the same time.

 

[Joely01]

You must be a Queensland supporter

Hayne has terrible positional awareness
Dugan has one great game out of five
Stewart is the auto select fullback if fit

No way in the world am I a qlder.

It's just simply fact that Hayne should be the number 1 for nsw. The argument of horrible positionally is garbage. Maybe 3 years ago, but he has improved to be not just one of the best attacking players, but also one of the best defensive players in the game.

 

[Tone83]

Agreed. Hayne's defense is extremely good, like inglis, they both save tries you'd never even expect a mere mortal to save, which is why their replacements at the back don't necessarily look bad. They're only bad in relation to what Hayne or GI would have done, which is something easy to overlook.

 

[The Eagle]

Imagine if bowralville was in NSW

We'd have both of them

 

[Tone83]

Or if the blues culture was one that made indigenous players feel like equals. We can dream.

Greg is where he needs to be, with people who respect and care about him.

 

[carcharias]

Or if the blues culture was one that made indigenous players feel like equals. We can dream.

Greg is where he needs to be, with people who respect and care about him.

That is a bit harsh on all the aboriginals that play and have played for NSW.
I bet those blokes don't feel the same way.

 

[Tone83]

What about the one that walked out of the team? He probably did.

And probably more annoyed still are the ones who didn't play for the team, but should have.

 

[carcharias]

What about the one that walked out of the team? He probably did.

And probably more annoyed still are the ones who didn't play for the team, but should have.

like who?