Barnett is the perfect origin bench forward, can play middle and edge, tonight he played left edge, middle then right edge, great line speed, aggressive but has done a great job in getting the rubbish out of his game. He made 30 tackles tonight and didn’t miss any.Any chance we resign Watson and Barnett? They were awesome tonight. Barnett is sorely missed man. We should have sent Dan Saifiti packing and given his money to Barnett!!
Barnett always had Origin written all over him. As Aqua pointed out. his hardness would always translate to stupidity. Now he has contained it. They tried to bait him last night at times. He would not bite. Incredible performance.Any chance we resign Watson and Barnett? They were awesome tonight. Barnett is sorely missed man. We should have sent Dan Saifiti packing and given his money to Barnett!!
3 (?) x DB medal winner = champion player. without question one of the Knights biggest losses is in recent times.Barnett is the perfect origin bench forward, can play middle and edge, tonight he played left edge, middle then right edge, great line speed, aggressive but has done a great job in getting the rubbish out of his game. He made 30 tackles tonight and didn’t miss any.
“That’s why the champion halves were so important in rugby league. You don’t win comps without Origin-class halfbacks,” Gould
Cool - which origin class halfback should we sign?
It's a confusing quote from Gould. Until last night, Luai was a 3x premiership winning half, but very loudly criticised as not being an "origin player".
Moses’ side is coming last.
Mainly because he's been injured all year.
I think the essence of what Gus is saying is pretty true though. There's not too many poor premiership winning halfbacks, and most oftentimes it's the top tier of halves getting the bickies. Chad Townsend in 2016 sticks out in my head as a bit of an anomaly, but he was playing well at the time and had a pretty good partner in Jim Maloney there.To be honest I think they’ve been using that as a bit of a cop out. Their defence has been terrible and Moses wouldn’t have fixed that.
I mean we beat them with Moses playing carrying a 5/8 on debut and a 4 game rookie at fullback and we’re terrible.
I’d definitely take Moses over Hastings but Gould’s comment is a bit strange when there hasn’t been much of a correlation between the best halves in Origin and premiership winning halves lately which is the comment I was agreeing with.