3. Glenn - He is truely inspiring at the moment. One of the few that is actually trying or making an impact. Thaiday could take a few notes from him.
2.Macca - Thought he was very sharp out of dummy half, made heaps of metres from scoots and was great in defence making over 50 tackles. Let him play the 80 from now on.
1.McGuire - One of the few that have been good in our form slump.
Honorable mention to Reed and Maranta. Reed gave us something we have been lacking while he was injured. Breaking tackles and offloading for that try.
I'd like to see a halves pairing of Hunt and Norman. Although Hunt can kind of be rocks or diamonds at times, but atleast he can create something so it is worth the risk. I think a lot of people are forgetting some of the shocking kicks he can produce. It's almost as if it takes him a few kicks to find his sweet spot but hopefully with more experience he will work that out of his game.
Thaiday has proved to be the wrong decision as captain IMO. I honestly thought it would make him stand up and play better than his 2011 season but he is in pretty shocking form this year and is hardly inspiring the team at all. Although I have a gut feeling that giving him the captaincy could have been used as an incentive in his re-signing last year(correct me if im wrong).
Maranta is a great player, i really like him. He puts in 100% and all he wants to do is play footy. Towards the end of the game when there was a bit of a scuffle he tried running through the middle of it trying to jump on the ball when everyone else was grabbing him like he ran in to fight but he was just playing to the whistle which is great to see.
There is one other thing that I would like to touch on. I have always been a massive fan of Hoffman, but with the lack of creativity in our halves his lack of play making skill has become very very noticeable. He has absolutely no clue what to do when he receives the ball in an attacking opportunity, he just hops around and takes a tackle killing any opportunity. There is no doubt that he is safe as a house at the back, gives 100% and he does take a few knocks each game. But the more I see us play this year the more I think we need a different option at fullback if we want to call us any chance of going far in the finals. Beale is obviously the preferred option as he has been in good form this year, but I was wondering how does Maranta go at fullback? Obviously he is going great on the wing and I would hate to move him, but he tries so hard and it is showing.
