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You’re relying on injuries to prove their place in the team then. Why are you wishing injury on our players?
Bloody Riff supporters!!
The only Flexibility Smith provides is for the opposition, as they go barging through his flimsy defence.
Again this is relying on an injury for the ideal use of a bench spot
Smiths best positions are fullback/half. How often do they get injured in game? Outside backs are slightly more often but still not worth carrying an emergency. I don’t reckon hookers (outside Kaysa) get injured all that often either.
So yeah if there are no injuries, he plays hooker, that McIlwrick is a better option at.
So now you’re relying on extreme scores to justify selection? How likely is that if you’re effectively only playing with 16 players? Well maybe getting belted
I don’t actually hate Smith. His utility is actually really good to have in squad across a whole season. Just not in a single game if your only plan for that skill is as an emergency cover.
I agree that Smith should be selected every week in the 21 and taken away to NZ, QLD & NZ games, but never selected in the starting 17 unless the cupboard is really bare.
Your obsession for Will Smith is quite disturbing, is he really Mick??
If we end up with one of these on the bench I can see Smith dropping off, but there’s not much point having your injury cover starting on the edge somewhere.
Plenty of premiership winning coaches have carried an outside back on the bench. There’s not much to be gained from carrying four forwards other than to take minutes from players who already play limited minutes.
Do you understand that Smith is offering very little as a bench hooking option with no specific plan, weakening our chances? He takes up 2 interchanges for his 10-15 min resting of Mahoney where he isn't using the skills he does have. If he came on and just ran out of dummy half for 10 minutes perhaps it'd be a different story, but apart from that his ruck service is crap and his middle defence fails a third of the time.
Didn't Latrell Mitchell hit someone flush on the chin, and he wasn't falling. Has he been cited?
Ask Pou, he knows.
Sure there have been coaches that have carried odd players on bench e.g. Daniel Tupou, but do you honestly reckon we're in a position to do so? And who's saying anything about carrying 4 forwards (excluding hookers as proper forwards)? The current plan appears to be have Smith on bench in case a back gets injured and if none do then he can come on halfway through 2nd half to spell Mahoney in a position he's not very good at and doesn't utilise his "best" skills, at what is often a very critical time in the game. Can't bring him on for Mahoney earlier in case there is injury that will waste interchanges. If that's the plan, McIlwrick (as would have Kaysa) suits better in the common occurrence of no injury/resting Mahoney
f**k all difference??? In defence it’s a massive difference.
I'd give K Evans zero minutes. Didn't show much when he was on, especially in attack, ok in defence. Kaufusi would have to be better, wouldn't he?
