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fish eel said:and why do you think Merritt isnt on the other wing :lol:
I've already done that thread........ and it certainly isn't because he is Aboriginal. ;-)
fish eel said:and why do you think Merritt isnt on the other wing :lol:
fish eel said:off the top of my head I'll give you Mick Devere, Jason Moodie and Luke Rooney as 3 wingers I think El Masri is better than that were picked ahead of him.
Not sure if Luke Lewis played on the wing in SOO or in the centres (which is where I think he did). If he played on the wing, then add him to the list.
The Colonel said:Still a token selection and not worth the accolades he got this morning. 100-1 he won't get a gig next year. Telegraph rates him an 8 alongside Hayne and that is laughable at best..... he had a decent game but it wasn't that good. His contributions in attack were virtually non existent.
B-Tron 3000 said:Add Matt King to that list!
Should always have been picked in the centres or not at all.
EL Masri should have been picked in the first game, but they picked that useless fool Lyon and left poor Matt King playing in a position that he never plays anymore.
B-Tron 3000 said:You guys are jokers. All you are doing is simply backing up your pre-game statements and are losing credibility fast.
Would another winger have shut down those raids? Maybe, maybe not. Hazam DID.
If anyone can sit there and say that Grothe definitely would have then they are liars. For all of Eric's good points defensive solidarity isn't at the top of the list.
You can't underestimate the value of those shots at goal. The game would have been totally different if the scores were tied, or even if we only had a 6 point lead (or worse, 4).
So, the question that really needs to be asked is: Do NSW have another player that could have kicked those goals AND been relied upon to shut down those Qld raids.
Please, answer this question - I want to know the name of this superstar who you would have picked.
Belly in Brisvegas said:El Masri making up the numbers...
The Colonel said::lol: I've said all along it wasn't about Grothe. I wouldn't have picked El Masri, fullstop, end of story. He was there for one reason - goalkicking which proved to be VERY helpful in the end.
He was ineffective from dummy half and when the NSW forwards were starting to tire a bigger winger would have been a damn site moreuseful than a bloke waiting on the wings to take the kicks.
I'd like to have seen what would have happened in the first two games when the Qlders weren't reduced to a one man bench.
Fact of the matter is he did reasonably well on three occassions but didn't offer much else in the way of attack and was helped IMO by the fact he had a very good defensive centre inside him and two wingers and a lock sitting in the Qld dressing sheds. Against 17 fit players it could have been a very different story.
Please, answer this question - I want to know the name of this superstar who you would have picked.
Belly in Brisvegas said:And as gallant as we were in the 2nd half I was struggling to see how we were going to get past 4 points anyway...those NSW tries could have gone unconverted...wouldn't have made a difference.
Bigfella said:No one else could have or would have kicked as well as El Masri.
IMO Any other winger currently playing NRL could have done what he did or better in terms of his actual wing play.
They certainly would have gone looking for more work.