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Unless he was on much more than minimum salary we wouldn't have been subsidising him at the Roosters. This only happens when trying to create room in the salary cap. A bloke on near minimum can just be shelved in reserve grade.
He won a grand final last year and then starred against Penrith a couple of weeks before Origin. That's all it takes to stand out from all the other fringe Origin players. If we were still playing well at Origin time we'd have a couple of players in the frame as well.
But was he even really a fringe Origin player to begin with in order to stand out?
I recall he was dynamic at 5/8 in the 20s but stalled a bit in the 2s. Always a magnificent physical specimen. Did this coincide with some rubbish reserve grade coaches i wonder? Georgie?
Met Isaac recently. What a nice man. Told him he was one of the toughest players I’ve seen play the game.
When bloke's like Brian Kelly and Tyrrel Fuimaono make the list, it doesn't exactly scream that Fittler is the greatest of judges either...
Maybe, maybe needed to swallow his pride, not sure.
You're a hard task master. So he needs to compile a list of potential Blues players with a 100% conversion rate to get your acknowledgement that he's a good judge ?
Just saying that you can't denigrate someone else's judgement of player X because Coach Y didn't list him in an emerging rep team... To top it off, you're then defending Fittler for picking spuds like Fuimaono in the list saying "he can't get em all right"... And what's with that list anyway - there's more bloke's in it than missed out on it. It's like a "hooray for everything" squad where people get in if they can successfully tie their own shoelaces...
