IFR33K
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He has a lot of potential. Tough little bugger
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You posted the whole game you halfwit, get a life instead of living on your computer all day.
A stack of missed tackles too
Surely he's now earned enough browny points for more game time now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Or don't Parra need an AKA J.Wallace/D.Napa
I think Edwards has become a massive target for the referees but to be fair he brings it on himself with all the stupid stuff that he does. I mean what is with all this stuff about hugging players when they drop the ball? What is surprising is that he is a decent forward when he concentrates?
Say no more.
Cheers mate. Good insight.
I can't see how anyone can not claim Woods is elite seeing as though he is an encumbent Origin and Kangaroo middle forward. Tonight Alvaro made pretty much the same metres per run than Woods, more tackles per game and obviously less missed tackles.
Fair points but Woods is good enough to be picked as a middle forward in the current number 1 team so I'd say he's at least in the top 5 players in his position (noting JWH and Bromwich are kiwis) in the world. That's elite for mine.
He'd be a first grader if he never had to tackle. Ham was spot on about his defence.
I agree massively that Woods is not an elite forward. In years gone by he would have been an elite forward but by modern standards he is just an above average front rower. The reason for this is that to be an elite front rower in the modern game you need to have another string to your bow other than the ability to simply cart the ball up. For example, Andrew Fifita possesses outstanding footwork, James Graham has ball-playing ability, Sam Burgess and Taumalolo have the ability to break through tackles; Aaron Woods simply just makes metres and has a decent work rate. Basically, he excels in what I would call the Paul Gallen role where he plays up the middle and gets his team down the park. Statistically he is very impressive but in terms of his ability to break open games and have an impact he is very limited.
Woods' work rate on both sides of the ruck allows players like Fifita to do what he does. Don't understimate the value of a player who consistently brings numbers to a tackle to prevent offloads.
It was a straight run in the sense that he ran onto the ball. He's not like an Edwards or a Ma'u who can receive early ball and make shit happen.
I'm not saying he is not a good player nor that he isn't valuable. However, let me ask you this: if Sam Burgess, Jason Taumalolo, James Graham or Jessie Bromwich were eligible for NSW do you think Aaron Woods would still get picked? Its not so much what does that is the problem its what the players that I mentioned above can offer in addition to what Woods can that sees him fall outside the elite category. If he had played in the Shane Webcke or Glenn Lazarus era he could have been one of the finest front rowers to play the game. Hes the wrong front rower in the wrong era.
You've hit the nail on the head. On paper Souths look one of the most formidable teams in the competition! You can add to that list arguable one of the best young back rowers in the competition in the Angus Crichton! Most teams would kill to have some of the players we've got. However, games aren't won on paper and the facts of the matter are that Souths simply aren't coming away with points during periods that they are dominating games. This has been the story of our season! You can look at last weeks game again Melbourne - we should have easily beaten the Storm given how much we dominated them in the second half yet we couldn't score a try!
Souths conceded one f**king penalty in the second half. In the first half they conceded four to our five. In the second half it was one to five. Bullshit one sided reffing in the second half.
