Norman had to play with a turnip at halfback when he did play. Give Norman a chance with Ben Hunt at halfback and you would see more points. Fact is we made SIX linebreaks...and came up with 3 tries, that is a shocking conversion rate. Fact is if Cronk was at half, he creates a try 9 times out of 10 from a linebreak.
Smith was fine and by the way still has created more tries in the last month than our spud halfback!
What kind of response is that?
Norman could have any of Andrew Johns, Johnathan Thurston or Cooper Cronk inside him, but it's not gonna make him a better defender you clown. What's the point of having a player in the team, particularly a ball player, if they're going to leak more points themselves than they create through assists?! Cronk may score 9 times out of 10 from a linebreak, but he certainly doesn't concede multiple line breaks a game, and he has a hugely talented backline outside him, not a bunch of youngsters, plus a working shoulder.
And no, Smith was not fine. Making 0 metres and 0 runs as a halfback is disgraceful. Had Wallace showed those figures you would never forget it. I have nothing against Smith, in fact I am quite annoyed we didn't do more to hold on to him. Seeing what the Roosters did to Carney (or what he did to the Roosters?) makes me wonder what we could have done with Smith. That aside, 0 runs for 0 metres is a disgraceful effort from a halfback who was recruited by the Sharks to save their club on the field.
Stop trash talking and making up statistics/facts and instead of bagging a player who was learning to run again this season and played with a buggered shoulder and perhaps make some constructive criticism as to how he could improve.
And FFS, don't ever say something so stupid again, no matter what you say/argue/make up, a five eighths defensive capibilities will not be made any better by the halfback inside him.
